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[The Geological Society of London.] Fifty-year run of 153 numbers of 'The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society', from no.1, including contributions from leading geologists including T. H. Huxley, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison

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[The Geological Society of London] T. H. Huxley; Sir Charles Lyell; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison; Sir Richard Owen; William Conybeare; Sir Joseph Prestwich [Charles Darwin; theory of evolution]
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Published throughout by Longmans of London (no.1, 1845 by 'Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans'; and no.265, 1911, by 'Longmans, Green, and Co.'; later issues by Longmans, Green, and Co.).
£1,800.00

A substantial run of a historic scientific journal, at a significant period in its history, with the theory of Evolution occasioning an upheaval of received ideas. 153 numbers, dating from the first number of 1 Feb. 1845 to that of 1 Nov. 1901, with a single subsequent number (Feb. 1911). (Numbers were generally arranged in yearly 'Volumes', with occasional additional numbers (for example 120* and 200a and 200b). All issues 8vo, with numbers of pages varying from around 60 to upwards of 20. The full number and date range are as follows: 1-4 [1 Feb. 1845 to 1 Nov. 1845], 9 [1 Feb.

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Autograph Letter Signed to the English mineralogist and geologist William Phillips (1775-1828).

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Henry Kater (1777-1835), English physicist of German descent
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23 May 1823; Union Place, Regent's Park [London].
£180.00

12mo: 2 pp. Very good. Addressed to 'Mr. W. Phillips' on otherwise-blank second leaf of bifolium, which carries traces of previous mount. Acknowledges 'the obliging present' of Phillips's 'valuable work on mineralogy' (the influential 'Outline of the Geology of England and Wales', 1822, written with William Conybeare).

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