Shelfmark
Icc3.5.21
Author
Title
Omphalos : an attempt to untie the geological knot / by Philip Henry Gosse, R.R.S., with fifty-six illustrations on wood.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, 1857.
Physical description
xiv, 376, [6] p. : ill. (engravings) ; 20 cm.
Note
Includes index.
Note
Includes final three advertisement leaves.
Note
Publisher's green morocco cloth with blind stamped decoration, and lettering stamped in gold on spine.
Provenance
Ms. inscription: "To Robert Harrison Esq. [?Librarian of the London Library] - with the best respects of the Author".
Provenance
Stamps of Birkbeck College Library and Geology Department, and the University of London Deposit Library.
Copy-specific note
Ms. bookseller's notes, codes, and price in pencil and ink.
Subject
Creationism 19th century.
Added entry--name
Harrison, Robert, 1820 - 1897 former owner.
Added entry--name
Van Voorst, John, fl. 1833 - 1886 publisher.
Added entry--name
Birkbeck College. Library former owner.
Added entry--name
University of London. former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B28089