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Whittaker & Co, 1893. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1893. No Edition Stated. 248 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. From the Whittaker's Arts, Sciences and Industries series. Includes illustrations throughout. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting, however text block remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper and pastedown. Newspaper clipping tipped to front endpaper. Text block edges heavily tanned. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Spine is noticeably sunned. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Price sticker to front. Book has a slight forward lean.
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom: The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain Volume II The Lower and Middle Chalk of England by A J Jukes-Browne - 1903
by A J Jukes-Browne
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom: The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain Volume II The Lower and Middle Chalk of England
by A J Jukes-Browne
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
London: HMSO, 1903. First edition. Hardback. Fair/No Jacket. 1140 4to. With contributions by William Hill. Folding map (showing areas occupied by the Chalk in England and adjacent areas) bound in facing title page, two other plates showing photographs of cliffs, five plates of photomicrographs of sections of Lower and Upper Cretaceous rocks bound in at end; all plates as and where called for, as well as many full-page illustrations of fossils. Original blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, gilt motif of Geological Survey of the United Kingdom to front board, blind-stamped decoration, 568 pages. Condition notes: Map and all plates clean and bright. Age-toning to pages. Externally: spine strip detached along one edge, and in a very poor way, having one area of loss, crumbly and curled along detaching edge and very faded. Boards with some bumping but overall sound. Text block sound. More photographs if requested.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (GB)
- Format/Binding Hardback
- Book Condition Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Edition First edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher HMSO
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1903
- Keywords geology,
- Size 1140 4to