98 pages. 'Jahn's superb library of 208 titles contains a remarkably comprehensive collection of the monuments of early paleontology (1600-1800); the local inventories of petrifactions, the illustrated museum catalogues that record many a fossil for the first time, the magnificent illustrated folios on corals and shells, the English country histories in which fossils mingle with arrowheads and urns, the travel books, the learned correspondance, the diluvian theology, and the earliest truly scientific monographs.' - from the introduction. Includes author index with values. B/W illustrations. A near fine copy in illustrated white paper wrappers (paperback).

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Title

The Melvin E. Jahn Collection of Early Geoscience 1550-1850

Publisher

Schoyer's Books and Serendipity Books

Publication Date

2004

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Trade Paperback

Edition

First Edition.

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Geology

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