The Bindon Landslip of Christmas Day 1839; Conybeare (Willia...

Hammer

£620

The Bindon Landslip of Christmas Day 1839; Conybeare (William Daniel), 'Conybeare and Dawson's Memoir and Views of Landslips on the Coast of East Devon...1840' comprising an album of ten plates including a Plan, Sections, and Views representing the changes produced on the coastline of East Devon as a result of the Christmas Day landslip, printed by John Murray, London 1840, title, single leaf list of subscribers (listing only 121 subscribers), list of plates, 14-page text, and 10 zinc lithographs, including hand-coloured plan, hand-coloured double-page geological section, and 7 tinted lithographic views (including one double-page), original card wrappers, with original printed label to upper cover, a rare album generally considered the first definitive scientific analysis of a landslip, appears complete, condition as per images.