Geological excursions round the Isle of Wight, and along the adjacent coast of Dorsetshire. Illustrative of the most interesting geological phenomena

Geological excursions round the Isle of Wight, and along the adjacent coast of Dorsetshire. Illustrative of the most interesting geological phenomena and organic remains.

Author	Gideon Algernon Mantell
Publisher	London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854
Edition	3
Weight	490 gram
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Keywords	Dinosaurs, Paleontology, Geology, Engeland, England, Isle of Wight, Dorsetshire
Booknumber	10983
Category's	Old & Rare (19th Century) Travel & Geography (Europe) History & Archaeology (Europe) Exact Sciences (Geology)
8vo, pp. XXXI, 356, [2], 32. Original blind-tooled cloth. Spine gilt. Illustrated with 45 lignographs in the text, 19 engraved plates, 1 fold. hand-coloured map and 1 fold. table. Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790 - 1852). English geologist and paleontologist, born in 1790 at Lewes, Sussex. Educated for the medical profession, he first practiced in his native town, afterwards in 1835 in Brighton, and finally at Clapham, near London. He found time to prosecute researches on the paleontology of the Secondary rocks, particularly in Sussex, a region which he made classical in the history of discovery. He first discovered the dinosaur he named Iguanodon in 1822. He located the quarry in Cuckfield from which the teeth had come, and from there found some of the rest of the remains of an animal which he believed was like a prehistoric iguana, which he named Iguanodon, meaning Iguana Tooth. Publishing the description in 1825, he became the second person to publish the discovery of a dinosaur. He did not see any significant remains of an Iguanodon until 1834, when he was given a sandstone block containing Iguanodon bones. This was nicknamed the 'Mantell-Piece'. Mantell wrote several books on geology and palaeontology, including 'Geological excursions round the Isle of Wight, and along the adjacent coast of Dorsetshire'. The dinosaur Iguanodon mantelli is named after him. Spine-ends slightly rubbed. Very good copy.
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Geological excursions round the Isle of Wight, and along the adjacent coast of Dorsetshire. Illustrative of the most interesting geological phenomena and organic remains.

Gideon Algernon Mantell