The Silurian System, Founded on Geological Researches in the Counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester, and Stafford; With Descriptions of the Coal-Fields and Overlying Formations. [With:] ALS from Murchison to Henri Milne-Edwards. London: December 1836.
London: John Murray, 1839. First edition, and a fine copy, complete with the very rare hand-coloured engraved folding three-sheet geological map. This work is considered to be Murchison’s masterpiece, placing him among the founders of modern geology. “An important milestone in geology, for it established the oldest fossil-bearing classification then..... More
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