MURCHISON, Sir Roderick Impey (1792-1871), Edouard de VERNEUIL and Count Alexander von KEYSERLING. The Geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains. London and Paris: R. & J.Taylor for John Murray and P.Bertrand, 1845. 3 volumes (including slipcase of folding maps), 4° (295 x 230mm). 64 plates (12 tinted lithographic views by L.Haghe after Murchison; 48 lithographic plates; 4 engraved plates), 4 folding engraved hand-coloured maps of geological sections, 2 folding engraved hand-coloured geological maps, engraved dedication. (Some spotting to plates.) Original purple cloth, unopened (spines somewhat faded, covers slightly affected by damp). Provenance : W.E.R. Boughton (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION. "Accompanied by De Verneuil, and greatly aided by the officials and savants of Russia, Murchison crossed the northern part of that country to the shores of the White Sea, and thence up the Dwina to Nijni Novgorod, Moscow and back to St.Petersburg. In the following summer the two travellers returned to Moscow, and, after examining the carboniferous rocks in the neighbourhood, struck off for the Ural Mountains, followed them southwards to Omsk, thence Westward to the Sea of Azof, and so back to Moscow. After a third visit to St.Petersburg... [this] important work... was published in April 1845." (D.N.B.). (3)
MURCHISON, Sir Roderick Impey (1792-1871), Edouard de VERNEUIL and Count Alexander von KEYSERLING. The Geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains. London and Paris: R. & J.Taylor for John Murray and P.Bertrand, 1845. 3 volumes (including slipcase of folding maps), 4° (295 x 230mm). 64 plates (12 tinted lithographic views by L.Haghe after Murchison; 48 lithographic plates; 4 engraved plates), 4 folding engraved hand-coloured maps of geological sections, 2 folding engraved hand-coloured geological maps, engraved dedication. (Some spotting to plates.) Original purple cloth, unopened (spines somewhat faded, covers slightly affected by damp). Provenance : W.E.R. Boughton (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION. "Accompanied by De Verneuil, and greatly aided by the officials and savants of Russia, Murchison crossed the northern part of that country to the shores of the White Sea, and thence up the Dwina to Nijni Novgorod, Moscow and back to St.Petersburg. In the following summer the two travellers returned to Moscow, and, after examining the carboniferous rocks in the neighbourhood, struck off for the Ural Mountains, followed them southwards to Omsk, thence Westward to the Sea of Azof, and so back to Moscow. After a third visit to St.Petersburg... [this] important work... was published in April 1845." (D.N.B.). (3)
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