Scenery, Science and Art: being Extracts from the Note-Book of a Geologist and Mining Engineer

Ansted, D. T. (Professor)

Published by John Van Voorst, London, 1854

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Upper 3" of spine cloth detached and glued back onto spine. Lower 1/2" of spine cloth missing. Front inner hinge broken. Frontispiece detached. Previous owner's signature erased from title page, with an earlier signature erased.; viii, 323 pages + 4 lithograph plates (including frontispiece) + 4 pages advertisements. Original blind-stamped green cloth boards. Page dimensions: 221 x 137mm. With 21 in-text figures. Contents cover France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, the Island of Sardinia, Africa, and America. The chapters on America are: New York and Pittsburg; The Ohio and Kanawha Valleys, and the Coal Basin of the Kanawha (Western Virginia); The Alleghanies and the Gold District of Eastern Virginia; Slavery as an Economical Question.; 8vo.

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Title
Scenery, Science and Art: being Extracts from the Note-Book of a Geologist and Mining Engineer
Author
Ansted, D. T. (Professor)
Publisher
John Van Voorst, London
Publication year
1854
Condition
Fair
Dust jacket
No Dust Jacket
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First Edition.
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