Government School of Mines and of Science applied to the Arts. Inaugural Discourse at the Opening of the School, 6th November 1851 by DE LA BECHE, Sir Henry T - 1851

Philadelphia: Blanchard &L Lea, 1851. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Text complete despite pagination; lacking original blanks. With numerous text illustrations. Original publisher's blind-stamped cloth, rebacked; minor browning and spotting throughout, especially to the publisher's catalogues. First American edition. The author (1796-1855), an English geologist and anthropologist, was the first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. He was a pioneer of early methods of geological survey, publishing numerous books, although he was also well-known for his cartoons and other drawings. This book, first published in London the same year, was an enlargement of an earlier work entitled How to observe geology (1835).

New York: AS Barnes & Co, 1856. Hardcover in stamped brown cloth boards w gilt titling, no jacket.. VeryGood+ with owner stamp on front endpaper & pastedown, antique library sticker on rear pastedown, single-line scribble on front endpapers else unmarked.. Collection of articles about the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. Includes de la Beche on Mining & Metallurgy, Owen on Raw Materials from the Animal Kingdom, Bell on Chemical and Pharmaceutical Processes, Playfair on Chemical Principles involved in Manufactures, Lindley on Food Substances, Solly on Vegetable Substances used in Arts & Manufactures, Willis on Machines & Tools, Glaisher on Philosophical Instruments & Processes, Hensman on Civil Engineering, Royle on Arts & Manufactures of India, and Washington on Naval Architecture. This is an excellent copy overall, with tight binding, crisp stamping, bright titling, clean contents without foxing, and scarcely any wear except some fraying at the top of the spine. 5-1/4 x 7-3/4, 463 pp, book-ad endpapers.