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Published by Paleontological Research Institute [PRI], Ithaca, NY, 1974
Seller: Bookfeathers, LLC, Lewisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: VG. Not ex-lib. Softcover in light tannish-grey wraps, 4to. Facsimile reprint of 1857 edition. 152pp. + album of 30 plates with facing descriptions. VG. Mild rubbing to overall clean wraps, stronger along outer edges with mild foxing; 1 1/4" quarter-circular dampstain upper corner rear wrap with mild discoloration and no other effects. Binding strong and square though front wrap pulled back (no separation). Pages clean and unmarked. A heavy item: non-U.S. shipping may require extra fees; please inquire.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1857 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 566 Language: English.
Published by Legare Street Press 2021-09-09, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014000793ISBN 13: 9781014000798
Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: New.
Mainly on Molluscs 0.0.
Seller: Antiquariaat Schierenberg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Charleston, SC, Russell & Jones, [1855-] 1857. Large 4to/Folio (34.5 x 26.5 cm). xvi, 152 pp.; 29 finely lithographed plates. 19th-century full linen. Spine with two black morocco labels with gilt title. = A seldom-seen work, published in a small edition, with descriptions and illustrations of many new and poorly known fossils. Written by the American palaeontologists Michael Tuomey (1805-1857) and Francis Simmons Holmes (1815-1882). The plates, by the Charleston, South Carolina engraver and printer Charles G. Platen (1818-after 1884), are well-executed: accurate and detailed. The first four show Bryozoa, and mostly well-preserved Echinodermata; all other plates show molluscs. Tuomey and Holmes were the first to study the rich Carolinian fossil faunas in depth, and many species were new, the majority still regarded as valid today. Weak stamp of the former Portland Society of Natural History (Maine) on title-page verso, and a few plate versos (not shining through). "The Society's library and natural history collections were once on a par with those at Harvard, Yale, the Boston Society of Natural History, and the Essex Museum (Salem, MA). Featured within its hallowed walls were such diverse items as a specimen of the extinct passenger pigeon, the skeletal remains of a prehistoric walrus discovered in Maine, and a moon rock from the 1969 Apollo 10 [SIC] space mission. Upon the Society's disbandment, its vast holdings of books, papers, and natural history materials were scattered to farflung places, many now unknown." (Eastman). A handwritten, dated note states that this copy was donated to the Society by a Major William L. Haskins, and a pencilled note below states that it was sold by the Society in 1955. Stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the title page. Wear to board edges; otherwise a very good, clean copy. We have only seen this work once before. Cat. BM(NH) Supplement, p. 1332; Eastman, L. M. (2006) The Portland Society of Natural History: The Rise and Fall of a Venerable Institution (Northeastern Naturalist Volume 13). Neither in Nissen ZBI, nor in Ward and Carozzi.
Published by Russell & Jones, 1857
First Edition
Leather Binding. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Folio - between 12" - 15" Tall. The scarce 1857 first edition, complete with all 30 original lithograph plates (of fossil shells). Bound in 3/4 period black straight-grained morocco over marbled boards, spine rebacked in black calf preserving most of original spine (boards rubbed, text and plates heavily foxed and dampstained with some traces of old mold). This copy could benefit from having the text and plates washed. PROVENANCE: Ink signature of James Postill on front endpaper, dated 1858.30 Lithograph Plates.
Published by Russell Jones, Charleston, South Carolina, 1857
Seller: Jim Crotts Rare Books, LLC, Clemmons, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
1st edition. Hardcover in 3/4 brown leather and brown cloth, 11" x 13.75", xvi,152pp. plus thirty lithographic plates, each with a leaf of descriptive text. Quarto. A rare work on the fossils of South Carolina, embellished by thirty attractive lithographic plates of shells and coral samples. The work was issued in parts over a span of three years, with two plates per part (in five instances two parts were issued together). Several eminent scientists, including Louis Agassiz, L.R. Gibbes, Joseph Leidy, and John McCrady assisted with the descriptions. The main author of the work, Michael Tuomey, was the geologist to state of South Carolina and a professor of geology at the University of Alabama. He died while the final parts of the work were in production. This work was initially meant to accompany Tuomey's REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, published in 1848, but ineptitude on the part of the original artist caused a delay. The plates in the present work were drawn on stone by C.G. Platen, an artist at the College of Charleston. The lithographic prints (mostly of shells and coral) are very well done. The plates are accompanied by text giving descriptions of the specimens, and their localities. The preface notes that "the expense of preparing and publishing such a work was much beyond the calculation we had made at the commencement, and the liberality of the Legislature in subscribing for two hundred copies, alone saved us from heavy loss, and enabled us to complete it in the best style of art. It is a good specimen of what can be done by our artists at home." SABIN 87532. MEISEL III, p.473. BM (NATURAL HISTORY) SUPPLEMENT, p.1332.