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Thesaurus Siluricus. The flora and fauna of the Silurian period with addenda from recent acquisitions.
1868015070London: John van Voorst 1868. Small quarto frontispiece map pp lii 214 endpapers a little foxed and blotched otherwise clean internally pages bruised at the lower and upper inner corners near the spine original cloth-backed boards slightly worn and soiled spine slightly torn at the head. VERY SCARCE. Bigsby was an English physician who became known for his work on geology an interest developed while on military service in Lower and Upper Canada during 1818 to 1826. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 1850 he published a lively book The Shoe and Canoe recounting his life and travels in British North America . In 1868 he published his most important scientific work Thesaurus Siluricus being a list of all the fossils which occur in the Silurian formation across the world. . First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good. John van Voorst Hardcover
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