A Second Visit to the United States of North America (in Two Volumes)
by CHARLES LYELL
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- First Edition. xii, 368; xii, 385 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. In September of 1845 Lyell returned to America, and after a trip to Maine an/No Jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
First Edition, First Printing. In September of 1845 Lyell returned to America, and after a trip to Maine and the mountains of New Hampshire, travelled extensively through the South. He stayed for two weeks on a Georgia plantation on the Altamaha River, crossed that state partly by handcar in order to collect rocks and fossils in the grade cuts along the way, went to Claiborne on the Alabama River where he collected more fossils, then to Montgomery and Mobile along the Alabama, Mobile, Tombigbee, and Black Warrior Rivers. From Mobile he went up the Tombigbee River to Tuscaloosa to visit the Alabama coal field, continuing by steamboat to New Orleans, where Lyell made an expedition to the mouth of the Mississippi River to study the growth of the delta. From there he went up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers by steamboat, then overland to Philadelphia. After a quick trip to Richmond, Virginia to re-examine the coal deposits there, he sailed from Boston to Liverpool on June 1, 1846. "Lyell's description of the coastal islands of the southeastern coast, erosion, topography, and fossils in Georgia and Alabama are an important contribution., while his detailed observations of the Mississippi Valley from the delta to the mouth of the Ohio River equal or excellent the accounts of other travelers." -- Clark. Howes L 574; Sabin 42763; Clark III, 352. Good with publisher's original brown cloth, with running and wear, especially the back cover of Volume 1. Some foxing and toning throughout, otherwise, content clean and bright. xii, 368; xii, 385 pp. 12mo. Overall, a nice copy of Lyell's explorations of the American South.
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- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31628
- Title
- A Second Visit to the United States of North America (in Two Volumes)
- Author
- CHARLES LYELL
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - First Edition. xii, 368; xii, 385 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. In September of 1845 Lyell returned to America, and after a trip to Maine an
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1849
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- TRAVEL, EXPLORATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- AMERICANA;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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