Author: Beche, H. T. De la
Title: A selection of geological memoirs, contained in the Annales des Mines written by Brongniart, Humboldt, von Buch and others. Translated, with notes and additions. Illustrated with eleven folding plates, including a geological map of France.
Description: London, William Phillips, 1836. 8vo (22.0 x 13.2 cm). xxii, 335 pp.; one folding table, three hand-coloured geological folded engraved maps including the geological map of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switserland, a part of Germany and northern Italy by Omalius d'Halloy; eight folded lithographed plates (for a total of eleven plates/maps). Later half cloth with red morocco label with gilt title on the spine. = De la Beche (1796-1855) was the first director of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom and produced the famous Memoirs. This is a translation of works regarded by De La Beche as most important to British geologists. A later (first: 1824) but not an expanded edition. Small red and gilt bookplate of Dr Sydney Ross, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy New York, on front pastedown. Old owner's signature, dated 1882, on the front flyleaf, some of the plain plates with a rather large waterstain in the top corner, otherwise a good copy. Ward and Carozzi, 616.

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