A Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast: describing the strata and fossils occurring between the Humber and the Tees, from the German Ocean to the Plain of York.

First edition folio, small folio in good condition bound in later red cloth, titled in gilt over black to spine. Later endpapers clean. Original front flyleaf records historical ownership information, ‘M Sanderson [Arundel Place] Whitby 1859’ and a pencil note reading ‘Sold by auction June 13th 1895’. Engraved frontispiece depicting a view very age spotted to margins and recto. Text block square and sound; age toned as expected; printed on heavy slightly textured paper. Bound in between p.132 and p.133 is a single lined leaf titled in a contemporary hand ‘Analysis of Cement Stone from Tomlinsons Encyclopedia of Useful [Sets]’ including figures laid out in columns. Fold out hand coloured ‘Geological Map of the Yorkshire Coast’ and fold out coloured chart titled ‘Section of the Strata from the Spurn to Hartlepool’, both measuring 40 cm x 27 cm to rear in good condition with just a few brown spots mainly to margins. Complete set of XXXVII strikingly hand coloured lithographic plates by John Bird to rear, in very good condition with only very occasional small age spots. 324 pp.