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    Reference 3514 (1802)
    Category Miscellaneous
    Author Phillips, John
    Title THE RIVERS, MOUNTAINS AND SEA-COAST OF YORKSHIRE. With Essays on the Climate, Scenery and Ancient Inhabitants of the County.
    Publishing Information London: John Murray,1855
    Description 2nd Subscribers' Edition; xv, 302 pages + 5 page list of subscribers, illustrated 35 lithographed plates (of which one is a coloured geological map). Original covers. Shelf wear, covers faded, bumping to the extremities and fraying to the head and tail of spine. Previous owners signature dated 1855 and newspaper clipping pasted on verso front cover, contents clean. spotting to some pages, mainly prelims and plates. A beautifully illustrated edition of this educational work on the geography of Yorkshire with reference to: natural boundaries and divisions, peculiar plants, the stranding of whales, magnetic elements, and fauna of Yorkshire. John Phillips, an English geologist who published the first global geological time scale based on the correlation of fossils in rock strata, thereby helping to standardize terminology including the term Mesozoic, which he invented.
    Price £30.00
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