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PARKINSON, JAMES. Organic Remains of a Former World. An Examination of the Mineralized Remains of the Vegetables and Animals of the Antediluvian World;generally termed Extraneous Fossils. 3 engraved frontispieces and 51 plates after Parkinson, most sparingly hand-colored. xii, 461, [7]; xiv, [2], 288, [28]; xv, [1], 479, [1] pages, including half-title in Volumes 2 and 3. 3 volumes. 4to, 262x213 mm, somewhat later 19th-century calf gilt, spines faded, Volume 1 rear and Volume 3 front covers detached; varying offsetting from plates, scattered foxing in text. London, 1820-08-11
Mixed set: third edition of the first volume, first edition of the second and third. "Although the author adhered to traditional theological views in the face of contemporary geological discoveries, 'the work was a major contribution to the development of British paleontology, particularly as a thorough and usable compilation of information on British fossils' (DSB). Parkinson (1755-1824) was a physician who pursued the study of fossils as an avocation; his most important medical work was his 1817 description of the degenerative disease named for him. DSB X, 321-23; Nissen ZBI 3091; Norman 1641.
