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GEORGE BELLAS GREENOUGH (1778-1855)
A Geological Map of England and Wales. London: for the Geological Society, by Longman, etc., 1819 [but 1820]. Large hand-coloured engraved map (engraved image 1882 x 1582mm), to the scale of 5 nautical miles to one inch, numbered 45 in tiny ink manuscript under title imprint, dissected and laid down on linen into four sections, the outer edges with silk-ribbon edging, printed section slips to versoes. (Occasional faint soiling and browning, some light staining to versoes, silk-ribbon edging occasionally fraying.) The map contained in a modern quarter diced russia box (350 x 295 x 39mm), gilt spine. Provenance: Sir John Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr, South Wales.
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF GREENOUGH'S GEOLOGICAL MAP. Greenough was one the founding members of the Geological Society of London, and served as its first president until 1811. 'In 1808 he first sketched the boundary-lines of the various strata in England and Wales, and in 1810 he travelled over a great part of the country for the purpose of mapping it. At the request of the Geological Society he then, with the help of Conybeare, Buckland, and Henry Warburton, coloured a large scale-map drawn by Webster, and in 1820 published it in six sheets' (DNB). It is now recognised that he plagiarised William Smith's pioneering geological map of 1815, and some have even suggested that the present work's publication drove Smith into debtors' prison. This map, no. 45, was coloured by Webster and sold to Sir John Nicholl on 16 May 1820, who paid for it on 27 May. Despite being no. 45, it was the 26th map to be sold (sales began on 1 May 1820). ONLY TWO OTHER COPIES OF THIS MAP HAVE SOLD AT AUCTION since 1975 (these rooms 8 April 2009, lot 17, and 6 April 2011, lot 27). Sold without the accompanying Memoir. Challinor 91; Ward & Carozzi 952.
A Geological Map of England and Wales. London: for the Geological Society, by Longman, etc., 1819 [but 1820]. Large hand-coloured engraved map (engraved image 1882 x 1582mm), to the scale of 5 nautical miles to one inch, numbered 45 in tiny ink manuscript under title imprint, dissected and laid down on linen into four sections, the outer edges with silk-ribbon edging, printed section slips to versoes. (Occasional faint soiling and browning, some light staining to versoes, silk-ribbon edging occasionally fraying.) The map contained in a modern quarter diced russia box (350 x 295 x 39mm), gilt spine. Provenance: Sir John Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr, South Wales.
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF GREENOUGH'S GEOLOGICAL MAP. Greenough was one the founding members of the Geological Society of London, and served as its first president until 1811. 'In 1808 he first sketched the boundary-lines of the various strata in England and Wales, and in 1810 he travelled over a great part of the country for the purpose of mapping it. At the request of the Geological Society he then, with the help of Conybeare, Buckland, and Henry Warburton, coloured a large scale-map drawn by Webster, and in 1820 published it in six sheets' (DNB). It is now recognised that he plagiarised William Smith's pioneering geological map of 1815, and some have even suggested that the present work's publication drove Smith into debtors' prison. This map, no. 45, was coloured by Webster and sold to Sir John Nicholl on 16 May 1820, who paid for it on 27 May. Despite being no. 45, it was the 26th map to be sold (sales began on 1 May 1820). ONLY TWO OTHER COPIES OF THIS MAP HAVE SOLD AT AUCTION since 1975 (these rooms 8 April 2009, lot 17, and 6 April 2011, lot 27). Sold without the accompanying Memoir. Challinor 91; Ward & Carozzi 952.