Title: Mines and Miners or Underground Life
Author: Simonin, L.
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Publisher: William Mackenzie
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Place of Publication: London
Book Condition: Good & Sound
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Size: 4to
Binding: Half Blue Leather
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Notes: Bound in half leather with marbled FEPs. With 160 engravings on wood, 20 maps geologically coloured and 10 plates of metal and minerals. Translated by H.W. Bristow, first edition in English. Chromolithographed geological maps and plates of rock specimens, with folding plates of machinery and mine disasters. Richly gilt spine in compartments, slightly rubbed and marked. A very good copy. With previous owner bookplate to FEP.