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MURCHISON, Roderick Impey (1792-1871). The Silurian System. London: John Murray, 1839. 2 volumes in one, large 4° (312 x 244mm). 56 plates, views and maps, of which 12 are hand-coloured geological profiles or views. Text illustrations throughout. (A few of the palaeontological plates with occasional spotting.) Slightly later 19th-century purple half morocco, gilt spine (extremities lightly rubbed, uneven fading to top of upper cover). Provenance: Canford Manor (19th-century bookplate). COMPLETE WITH THE VERY RARE HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED GEOLOGICAL MAP in three sections (each 1010 x 663mm) in a modern cardboard portfolio. (Folded with minor tears at crease folds but without loss, 2 light creases to western sheet, bottom 140mm of central sheet lightly dust-soiled and very lightly spotted, the other extremities dust-soiled, frayed and chipped, but not affecting image.)
MURCHISON, Roderick Impey (1792-1871). The Silurian System. London: John Murray, 1839. 2 volumes in one, large 4° (312 x 244mm). 56 plates, views and maps, of which 12 are hand-coloured geological profiles or views. Text illustrations throughout. (A few of the palaeontological plates with occasional spotting.) Slightly later 19th-century purple half morocco, gilt spine (extremities lightly rubbed, uneven fading to top of upper cover). Provenance: Canford Manor (19th-century bookplate). COMPLETE WITH THE VERY RARE HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED GEOLOGICAL MAP in three sections (each 1010 x 663mm) in a modern cardboard portfolio. (Folded with minor tears at crease folds but without loss, 2 light creases to western sheet, bottom 140mm of central sheet lightly dust-soiled and very lightly spotted, the other extremities dust-soiled, frayed and chipped, but not affecting image.)

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MURCHISON, Roderick Impey (1792-1871). The Silurian System. London: John Murray, 1839. 2 volumes in one, large 4° (312 x 244mm). 56 plates, views and maps, of which 12 are hand-coloured geological profiles or views. Text illustrations throughout. (A few of the palaeontological plates with occasional spotting.) Slightly later 19th-century purple half morocco, gilt spine (extremities lightly rubbed, uneven fading to top of upper cover). Provenance: Canford Manor (19th-century bookplate). COMPLETE WITH THE VERY RARE HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED GEOLOGICAL MAP in three sections (each 1010 x 663mm) in a modern cardboard portfolio. (Folded with minor tears at crease folds but without loss, 2 light creases to western sheet, bottom 140mm of central sheet lightly dust-soiled and very lightly spotted, the other extremities dust-soiled, frayed and chipped, but not affecting image.)

'PROBABLY THE GREATEST WORK EVER TO BE PUBLISHED EMBODYING THE RESULTS OF A SINGLE PIECE OF ORIGINAL RESEARCH BY ONE MAN. This work detailed and established practically the whole succession of the stratigraphical formations and their fossil contents (and associated igneous rocks) of what we now know as the Ordovician and Silurian systems, in their type areas' (Challinor p.108). Challinor 141; Nissen ZBI 2944. (2)

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