comprising of an off-print by William Hutton F.G.S. titled 'On the Stratiform Basalt Associated with the Carboniferous Formation of the North of England' with a note that reads 'Read at a meeting of the natural history Society of Newcastle Upon Tyne, December 17, 1831and published in their transactions', printed by T & J Hodgson, Union Street, Newcastle, 1832, in original paper wrappers, string bound (string loose), quarto, 30pages; an offprint by Rev. A Sedgewick, M.A F.R.S. & M.G.S. Woodwardian Professor and Fellow of Trinity College, titled 'On the Association of Trap Rocks with the Mountain Limestone Formation in High Teesdale, from the transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society', printed Cambridge 1824, in original paper wrappers, string bound (string loose), quarto, 55 pages with 4 plates, one titled 'Map Shewing the extent of the trap on the banks of the Tees'; and, a small extract from a journal titled Notes on the History of English Geology, William Henry Fitton, M.D. F.R.S. with a folded plate showing Smiths section of England and Wales from Snowdon to London dated 1817 (3)
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comprising of an off-print by William Hutton F.G.S. titled 'On the Stratiform Basalt Associated with the Carboniferous Formation of the North of England' with a note that reads 'Read at a meeting of the natural history Society of Newcastle Upon Tyne, December 17, 1831and published in their transactions', printed by T & J Hodgson, Union Street, Newcastle, 1832, in original paper wrappers, string bound (string loose), quarto, 30pages; an offprint by Rev. A Sedgewick, M.A F.R.S. & M.G.S. Woodwardian Professor and Fellow of Trinity College, titled 'On the Association of Trap Rocks with the Mountain Limestone Formation in High Teesdale, from the transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society', printed Cambridge 1824, in original paper wrappers, string bound (string loose), quarto, 55 pages with 4 plates, one titled 'Map Shewing the extent of the trap on the banks of the Tees'; and, a small extract from a journal titled Notes on the History of English Geology, William Henry Fitton, M.D. F.R.S. with a folded plate showing Smiths section of England and Wales from Snowdon to London dated 1817 (3)
Auction: Fine Scientific & Medical Instruments and Books, 24th Nov, 2022