Geology. Sowerby (Henry, Assistant-Curator Linn. Soc. [Linna...

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£250

Geology. Sowerby (Henry, Assistant-Curator Linn. Soc. [Linnaean Society]), Popular Mineralogy; Comprising a Familiar Account of Minerals and their Uses, first edition thus of the first work to use chromolithography to illustrate minerals, London: Reeve and Benham, 1850, 20 plates illustrating 80 specimens, some minor foxed spots, original publisher's blue cloth by Westleys & Co of London, their ticket, pictorial gilt, rebacked, edges worn and some exposed, refreshed and repaired endpapers, contemporary bookseller's ticket of Fletcher of Norwich, uncut, loosely-inserted 19th c manuscript notes from one of Francis Butler's monograph, square 8vo