Author: Heilprin, A.
Title: Town geology: the lesson of the Philadelphia rocks. Studies of nature along the highways and among the byways of a metropolitan town.
Description: Philadelphia, PA, "Published by the author. Academy of Natural Sciences", 1885. Large 8vo. [iv], 142 pp.; seven plates and maps, numerous text figures. Original brown cloth with gilt vignette of a dinosaur skeleton on the front board. Spine with gilt title. = An interesting novel approach of geology: the paleontologist and malacologist Angelo Heilprin (1853-1907) discusses the fossils found in the cobbles and stones of which the buildings and roads in the town of Philadelphia were made. Also, a more traditional discourse on the geology of southern Pennsylvania and adjacent western New Jersey is given. Two plates show mainly fossil molluscs. Some light spotting to title, otherwise a very good clean, unmarked copy with mint binding, which is unusual.

Keywords: