Author: Robert Chambers
Title: Ancient Sea-Margins, As Memorials of Changes in the Relative Level of Sea and Land
Description: Edinburgh; London, W. & R. Chambers; W. S. Orr & Co, 1848. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Robert Chambers' discerning study on the coastline of Britain, illustrated with a folding map. The first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map, and in-text illustrations.Collated, bound without the endpapers and half-title, all plates are present.A geological study of the ocean by Robert Chambers, in which he explores the coastline of Britain.Chambers was a keen geologist, and within this volume offering evidence of changing sea levels in both Scotland and England, supporting his view that Great Britain was historically far more deeply submerged. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Marks and rubbing to the boards and spine. Spine is a little faded. Front hinge is starting but firm. Lacking the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and generally clean with scattered spots. Frontispiece, title, and contents page are detached but present. Light edge wear and spots to the folding map. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Keywords: Ancient Sea-Margins, as Memorials of Changes in the Relative Level of Sea and Land geology sea land geology Not Stated


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