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The Old Red Sandstone or New Walks in an Old Field
by MILLER Hugh
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Edinburgh: Nimmo Hay & Mitchell, 1884 tidy copy, red cloth lightly rubbed to edges and corners, gilt embossed baby on a globe to upper board, gilt titled spine, backstrip heavily sunned losing all red pigment, original coloured eps, hinges tight, copperplate ink to head of "Note to Seventh Edition" is dated 1889 at "Manapori" but I cannot decipher the name, 385pp, folding hand coloured frontis + 14 plates (line diagrams), a tidy copy apart from the sunned spine, one of the early works of speculative British geology in a later edition (title page states Twenty-Fourth edition, being a reprint of the seventh edition). reprint. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010721
- Title
- The Old Red Sandstone or New Walks in an Old Field
- Author
- MILLER Hugh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- reprint
- Publisher
- Nimmo Hay & Mitchell
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1884
- Keywords
- British Geology Geography Science Victorian Fossils
- Bookseller catalogs
- SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY;
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- Sunned
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- Reprint
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- Gilt
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