May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 235

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
LYELL, CHARLES, Sir. Principles of Geology. 15 engraved and woodcut plates and maps. Publisher's inserted ad leaf before Volume 1 frontispiece. 2 volumes. Large 8vo, 234x146 mm, original cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrips, shelf label removed from Volume 2 spine; accession number on verso of titles, scattered foxing, generally not affecting plates. Philadelphia, 1837

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first american edition. With the signatures of the Pennsylvania soldier and statesman George Keim (1805-61), who formed a collection of regional mineralogy specimens that he bequeathed to Lehigh University.