On the Tertiary fluvio-marine formation of the Isle of Wight.

London, The Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1856. 8vo (23.7 x 15 cm). xviii,162 pp.; wood-engraved frontispiece, seven lithographed plates (showing fossils), one folded hand-coloured geological map of the Isle of Wight and two folded hand-coloured engraved geological profiles and several fine woodcuts in the text. Later red burgundy buckram with gilt letters on spine, original printed wrappers bound in. = An important but seldom-seen contribution to the palaeontology of the isle of Wight in the English Channel), written by the British geologist and malacologist Edward Forbes (1815-1854) and published after his death. Six of the seven plates show Tertiary shells described in the section "Description of the plates of fossils" by John Morris (pp. 145-162), including several new species. Fore edge uncut. Bookplate of the John Crerar library on front pastedown, their perforated stamp in the top margin of the title and their small stamp on plate versos (weak, not shining through); small stamp of the British geologist Frederick Henry Hatch (1864-1932) on frontispiece verso; former owner's inscription, Howard Bendell / 1875. Perhaps, he is the Irish or Scottish (Perthshire?; D. before 1922) malacologist/naturalist mentioned by, e.g., Coates (1922) Invertebrate fauna of Perthshire. the land and freshwater Mollusca, and Taylor, Monograph of the land & freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles in the top margin of the title page. Front wrapper detached, otherwise very good.