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SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON (1792-1871) AND EDOUARD DE VERNEUIL (1805-1873)
The Geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains. London and Paris: R. & J.Taylor for John Murray and P. Bertrand, 1845. 3 volumes (including slipcase of folding maps), 4° (297 x 230mm). Half-titles to text vols, vol. I in English, vol. II in French. Engraved dedication to Nicholas I, 64 plates comprising 12 tinted lithographic views by L. Haghe after Murchison, 48 lithographic plates and 4 engraved plates of fossils, 4 folding engraved hand-coloured maps of geological sections, 2 folding engraved hand-coloured geological maps, inaccurate plate reference deleted in ink on p.172 in vol. I as usual. (Without [G]3 called for by Thackray, but paginating as per Thackray, [e4] bound before d4, 4Y2 bound between 4Q2 and 4R4, tiny marginal hole to 93, tiny hole to creasefold on large folding map affecting a couple of letters in dedication, some occasional light spotting.) Original purple cloth, unopened (spines somewhat faded); the maps and sections laid down on linen with outer panels in matching purple cloth and numbered in gilt . Provenance: W.E.R. Boughton (contemporary ink presentation inscription on half-title to:) -- Downton Castle Library.
A FRESH, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH OF THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION OF THE GEOLOGY OF RUSSIA. In this book the Permian system is described for the first time. Volume I gives the geological details and an account of the travels in Russia in 1840 and 1841. It is by Murchison, with short appendices by William Lonsdale on the corals and Richard Owen on fossil mammals Volume II, published in French, contains the palaeontology and is largely by Murchison’s companion E. De Verneuil, with contributions by John Morris and Alexandre T. Brongniart (1770-1847), with notes by H.R. Goeppert (1880-1884) and John Lindley on Palaeozic plants, A. d'Orbigny (1802-1857) on Palaeozic foraminifera and Mesozoic and Tertiary brachiopods and molluscs, Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) on Palaeozic fish. Murchison himself probably contributed Palaeozic crustaceans. Count Keyserling, Murchison’s other companion in Russia, is given as joint-author on the title-page, but does not seem to have contributed to the text. J.C. Thackray, ' R. I. Murchison's Geology of Russia (1845)' in J. Soc. Biblphy nat. Hist. (1978) 8 (4): 421-433; Ward & Carozzi 1623.
The Geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains. London and Paris: R. & J.Taylor for John Murray and P. Bertrand, 1845. 3 volumes (including slipcase of folding maps), 4° (297 x 230mm). Half-titles to text vols, vol. I in English, vol. II in French. Engraved dedication to Nicholas I, 64 plates comprising 12 tinted lithographic views by L. Haghe after Murchison, 48 lithographic plates and 4 engraved plates of fossils, 4 folding engraved hand-coloured maps of geological sections, 2 folding engraved hand-coloured geological maps, inaccurate plate reference deleted in ink on p.172 in vol. I as usual. (Without [G]3 called for by Thackray, but paginating as per Thackray, [e4] bound before d4, 4Y2 bound between 4Q2 and 4R4, tiny marginal hole to 93, tiny hole to creasefold on large folding map affecting a couple of letters in dedication, some occasional light spotting.) Original purple cloth, unopened (spines somewhat faded); the maps and sections laid down on linen with outer panels in matching purple cloth and numbered in gilt . Provenance: W.E.R. Boughton (contemporary ink presentation inscription on half-title to:) -- Downton Castle Library.
A FRESH, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH OF THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION OF THE GEOLOGY OF RUSSIA. In this book the Permian system is described for the first time. Volume I gives the geological details and an account of the travels in Russia in 1840 and 1841. It is by Murchison, with short appendices by William Lonsdale on the corals and Richard Owen on fossil mammals Volume II, published in French, contains the palaeontology and is largely by Murchison’s companion E. De Verneuil, with contributions by John Morris and Alexandre T. Brongniart (1770-1847), with notes by H.R. Goeppert (1880-1884) and John Lindley on Palaeozic plants, A. d'Orbigny (1802-1857) on Palaeozic foraminifera and Mesozoic and Tertiary brachiopods and molluscs, Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) on Palaeozic fish. Murchison himself probably contributed Palaeozic crustaceans. Count Keyserling, Murchison’s other companion in Russia, is given as joint-author on the title-page, but does not seem to have contributed to the text. J.C. Thackray, ' R. I. Murchison's Geology of Russia (1845)' in J. Soc. Biblphy nat. Hist. (1978) 8 (4): 421-433; Ward & Carozzi 1623.