Palaeontology or A Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and their Geological Relations

First edition in its original Edinburgh publisher’s burgundy-grained cloth binding. A very good example in robust condition, with replacement endpapers,; though retaining the original binder’s ticket of Burn of Kirby Street. The folding plate is present, with tape reinforcement to lower part of hinge and the book collates correctly: xvi, pp420. There is a whiff of tobacco when the book is opened.

Richard Owen (1804-1892) coined the term ‘dinosaur’ and this book is his considered catalogue of fossil evidence published just a year after Darwin’s Origin of Species. Owen was the founder of what would become the Natural History Museum.