The Journal of Gideon Mantell, Surgeon and Geologist Covering the Years 1818-1852
London: Oxford University Press, 1940. Very Good / Good -. Item #47321
London: Oxford University Press, 1940. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; xii,315pp.; portrait frontispiece. Jacket rather chipped and dust-soiled, long tears to rear panel with very old and yellowed external tape repair, brief paper scarring to upper panel, corners bumped; overall Very Good in a Good only example of the uncommon jacket. Ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown.
Price: $100.00