Geology.- Mantell (Gideon) Geological Excursions round the Isle of Wight, and along the adjacent coast of Dorsetshire, first edition, wood-engraved title vignette, plates and illustrations, hand-coloured folding engraved map at end (very slight fraying to fore-margin), 19th century ownership inscription to half-title and head of title, few light corner creases, the odd spot or minor surface soiling, light browning to half-title and margins, gutter cracking at points and hinges cracked but holding, original blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt, little rubbed and soiled with a couple very small stains or gouges, some fraying or wear to spine ends and corners, Henry G. Bohn, 1847 § Woodward (Samuel) An Outline of the Geology of Norfolk, folding hand-coloured lithographed map and cross-section, 6 lithographed plates, contemporary and slightly later ownership inscriptions and bookplate "Universitatis Brisolliensis" to front endpapers, final few ff. with slight dust-soiling and fraying to margins, light marginal browning, contemporary cloth, rebacked, paper label to spine, little rubbed with some wear to corners, Norwich, John Stacy, 1833; and others, including the first edition of Mantell's Geology of the South-East of England (1833), lacking final Index f. but with presentation inscription to the author's brother "Thos. A. Mantell. Authors Compts.", 8vo (4)
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