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Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames

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    Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames Author: Format: Hardback First Published: Published By:
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    Pages: 523 Language: English ISBN: 1021079013851 Category: Tag:

    Full Title: Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames
    Second Hand
    Hardback
    Published by: Oxford at the Clarendon Press

    1st. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket: None.
    Original cloth boards. Early professional repair to spine with gilt title. The book is free of foxing and is very sound and tight. Black endpapers. 17 lithographed plates of which two hand coloured geological maps and two hand coloured geological profiles.
    The author, John Phillips, 1800 to 1874, geologist, assisted in the foundation of the Oxford Museum of Natural History. He was president of the Geological Society of London, published the first global geologic time scale, and made astronomical observations of Mars. This was his last book.
    With fine illustrations of fossils, including many molluscs, echinoderms, etc. The geological map and some profiles are coloured.
    Ex library (Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire).

    Weight1.2 kg