Petrifications and their Teachings by Gideon Algernon Mantell

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. 1851. Henry G. Bohn. 1st Edition. Illustrated.

From the personal library of Thomas Hinchliff (an English mountaineer, traveller, and author, and from 1875 to 1877 the seventh President of the Alpine Club)

A hand-book to the gallery of organic remains of the British Museum.

Bound in red cloth with heavy damage to outside of spine, peeling away to reveal mull on top half of spine. Corner and usual edge-wear. Slightly shaken, but still tightly bound with minimal to mild levels of foxing.