CONTRIBUTIONS TO GEOLOGY
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1833. 1st Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good. Item #003844
1st edition. A Very Good copy. 8vo., iv, (5), 12-227 pp., illustrated with 6 engraved plates. Original paper over board, rebacked with new cloth spine. Fore edge and bottom edge of text block is uncut; with wide margins. The boards are mildly rubbed. Peabody Acadamey of Science book plate and stamp on the front paste down and end paper. Text and plates remarkably clean and bright. A Very Good copy with Fine plates. *** Tertiary formation of Alabama.--New Tertiary fossil shells from Maryland and New Jersey.--New genus of fossil shell from New Jersey.--Tufaceous lacustrine formation of Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York. Author's first work. Lea would eventually head Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, the oldest natural science research institute in the Western Hemisphere.
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