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A Manual of Scientific Enquiry; Prepared for the Use of Officers in Her Majesty's Navy, and Travellers in General

by Herschel, John F.W.; Main, M.A. (Eds)

Publisher : John Murray
Published In : London
Illustrations : 1 folding map, text figs

Description:

Fourth edition. With a chapter on Geology by Charles Darwin (pp 248-275). Other contributions include Richard Owen (Zoology), Sir William Hooker (Botany), Sir Henry De La Beche (Mineralogy), etc., etc. This book ran to six editions (the first published in 1851 and the sixth in 1906). Scarce.

Freeman, 331.

Condition

8vo, orig. cloth, some wear/chipping to head of spine, split to top of front joint, shelf label removed from spine. From an institutional library with book-plate of the Herbert Lister Bowman Library, Laboratory of Mineralogy, University of Oxford. Bowman (1874-1942) was Waynflete Professor of Mineralogy and Crystallography. Also with small book-plate of James Walker (Christ Church) (1857-1929), demonstrator in the Clarendon Laboratory, Vice-President of the Physical Society.