Geological Observations in South Australia, principally in the District South-East of Adelaide

WOODS, Reverend Julian Edmund

Verlag: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, London, 1862

Beschreibung

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1862. Octavo, xviii, 404 pages with 32 illustrations plus 5 pages of plates and a map. Gilt- and blind-stamped green stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, all edges uncut; cloth slightly marked and a little rubbed at the extremities (with trifling wear to a spot along the rear joint); minimal signs of age and use; an excellent copy. Ferguson 18805. This copy contains a series of interesting (albeit relatively unimportant) early marks of ownership, from William Charles Rigby's early blindstamp (with premises at 55 Hindley Street), to the ink signature of a policeman ('Frank Karuth | Kadina S.A. 13/8/64', ruled out on the title page), and the pencilled signatures of vigneron and publican Francis Robert Hunt, Hahndorf (twice) and subsequently his son Leo[nard], who died in 1919. The first of many significant and original contributions to Australian geology, palaeontology and zoology by Father [Tenison]-Woods (1832-1889). These days he is perhaps more widely known for the fact that with 'Mother Mary MacKillop he helped to found the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart at Penola in 1866' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 136982

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Geological Observations in South Australia, ...

Verlag: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1862

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: First Edition.