Boston: Gould and Lincoln. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1857. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped decoration and publishers' medallion on cover, yellow endpapers, t.e.g. Illustrated with fold-out color frontispiece showing sections of land strata in England and Scotland, as well as numerous B&W engravings. First published in Edinburgh in 1841, this text is taken from the Fourth London Edition. . Covers mildly rubbed and worn, former owner's signature on bookplate on fep, some very old damp-stains in text, edges and some pages lightly foxed; appears to have never been read. VERY GOOD. . B&W Illustrations. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxiv, 288 pp .

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Bookseller: Round Table Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10408
Title: The Old Red Sandstone; or, New Walks In An Old Field
Author: Miller, Hugh
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
Edition: First American Edition. First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Gould and Lincoln
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1857
Keywords: GEOLOGY, Science;, Non-Fiction;, fossils
Bookseller catalogs: Science, Medicine & Technology;

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