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A Synoptical Table of British Organic Remains: in which all the edited British fossils are systematically and stratagraphically arranged in accordance with the views of the geologists of the present day; and a reference given to their localities strata and engraved figures. Accompanied by a lithograph of the fossil turtle in the Norfolk and Norwich museum
by WOODWARD (Samuel)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830. First edition, 8vo (220 x 130 mm), [2], xi, [3], 50pp., with half-title, lithographed frontispiece, neat stamp to title page, rebacked quarter blue calf, orig. marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, a nice copy. Provenance: From the Norfolk library of Ron Fiske with his bookplate.
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- Bookseller
- Forest Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36954
- Title
- A Synoptical Table of British Organic Remains: in which all the edited British fossils are systematically and stratagraphically arranged in accordance with the views of the geologists of the present day; and a reference given to their localities strata and engraved figures. Accompanied by a lithograph of the fossil turtle in the Norfolk and Norwich museum
- Author
- WOODWARD (Samuel)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830
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Grantham, Lincolnshire
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- Rebacked
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- Gilt
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- Marbled boards
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