Systematic account of the geology of Tasmania

Hobart : William Thomas Strutt, Government Printer, 1888. Thick quarto, polished half-calf over patterned cloth (scuffed and worn), morocco title label to spine lettered in gilt, previous owner’s names to endpaper, pp. xxii (dedication and preface leaves trimmed short along lower margin); [ii]; 408; [2 – blank]; folding map of Tasmania printed in colour (with repaired tears along the folds); 23 wood engraved plated by George Collingridge after William Piguenit (including portraits of Truganini and ‘King Billy’), folding tables, elevations printed in colour (one folding), 57 tinted lithographed plates with text sheets of fossils, including shells, plants, and mammals (including the extinct Diprotodon Australis, the largest mammal to have ever lived, as well as the now extinct thylacine), and Aboriginal flint tools, a very good copy.

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