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MURCHISON, Sir Roderick Impey (1792-1871). The Silurian System. London: John Murray, 1839.
2 parts in one volume, 4° (310 x 240mm). Errata slip, Complete with the VERY RARE hand-coloured engraved folding 3-sheet geological map, dissected and mounted on linen, 3 engraved maps, 14 lithographic plates of which 2 folding and 3 hand-coloured, 9 folding hand-coloured geological sections, 31 engraved plates of fossils. (Variable spotting throughout, mainly affecting few leaves at beginning and engraved plates and first geological section.) Contemporary calf by J. Clarke, gilt arms on covers, gilt spine, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers and edges (extremities lightly rubbed), geological map contained in remains of card slipcase (rubbed and stained). Provenance: JOHN FREDERICK, 1ST EARL OF CAWDOR (1790-1860; armorial binding).
A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, BELONGING TO ONE OF THE ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBERS AND SUPPLIERS OF FOSSIL SPECIMENS. Lord Cawdor was elected FRS in 1812, and was MP for Carmarthen from 1813 to 1821 and Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire from 1817 to 1860. He took a great interest in Murchison's work, and supplied some of the fossil specimens which are illustrated in the work. 'An important milestone in geology, for it established the oldest fossil-bearing classification then known' (ODNB). Murchison received substantial help from Arthur Aikin with notes on Shropshire, and as Norman states, Murchison's geological research in the Welsh borderland and South Wales brought to an end the confusion hitherto surrounding the so-called 'Transition' rocks. 'Murchison was the first to establish a uniform sequence of Transition strata, to which he gave the name "Silurian" after a British tribe; these strata constituted a major system with uniform fossil remains, displaying an abundance of invertebrates and a complete lack... of the remains of vertebrates or land plants' (Norman 1596). The implications for the evolutionary history of the earth were enormous. 'Although the map is a rarity today, every copy of the text was published with a map' (Thackray, p.69); THIS LOT IS SOLD COMPLETE WITH THE VERY RARE MAP. BM(NH) III, 1380; Challinor 141; Dibner Heralds 97; Norman 1569; J.C. Thackray 'R.I, Murchison's Silurian System (1839)' in J. Soc. Biblphy nat. Hist. (1978) 9 (1): 61-73; Ward & Carozzi 1620.
2 parts in one volume, 4° (310 x 240mm). Errata slip, Complete with the VERY RARE hand-coloured engraved folding 3-sheet geological map, dissected and mounted on linen, 3 engraved maps, 14 lithographic plates of which 2 folding and 3 hand-coloured, 9 folding hand-coloured geological sections, 31 engraved plates of fossils. (Variable spotting throughout, mainly affecting few leaves at beginning and engraved plates and first geological section.) Contemporary calf by J. Clarke, gilt arms on covers, gilt spine, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers and edges (extremities lightly rubbed), geological map contained in remains of card slipcase (rubbed and stained). Provenance: JOHN FREDERICK, 1ST EARL OF CAWDOR (1790-1860; armorial binding).
A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, BELONGING TO ONE OF THE ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBERS AND SUPPLIERS OF FOSSIL SPECIMENS. Lord Cawdor was elected FRS in 1812, and was MP for Carmarthen from 1813 to 1821 and Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire from 1817 to 1860. He took a great interest in Murchison's work, and supplied some of the fossil specimens which are illustrated in the work. 'An important milestone in geology, for it established the oldest fossil-bearing classification then known' (ODNB). Murchison received substantial help from Arthur Aikin with notes on Shropshire, and as Norman states, Murchison's geological research in the Welsh borderland and South Wales brought to an end the confusion hitherto surrounding the so-called 'Transition' rocks. 'Murchison was the first to establish a uniform sequence of Transition strata, to which he gave the name "Silurian" after a British tribe; these strata constituted a major system with uniform fossil remains, displaying an abundance of invertebrates and a complete lack... of the remains of vertebrates or land plants' (Norman 1596). The implications for the evolutionary history of the earth were enormous. 'Although the map is a rarity today, every copy of the text was published with a map' (Thackray, p.69); THIS LOT IS SOLD COMPLETE WITH THE VERY RARE MAP. BM(NH) III, 1380; Challinor 141; Dibner Heralds 97; Norman 1569; J.C. Thackray 'R.I, Murchison's Silurian System (1839)' in J. Soc. Biblphy nat. Hist. (1978) 9 (1): 61-73; Ward & Carozzi 1620.
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