GREENOUGH, George Bellas (1778-1855)

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Lot 134 | GREENOUGH, George Bellas (1778-1855)
GREENOUGH, George Bellas (1778-1855)

A Geological Map of England and Wales. London: for the Geological Society, by Longman, etc., 1819-[1820].

Extremely rare first edition of Greenough's geological map. Greenough was one the founding members of the Geological Society of London, and served as its first president until 1811. 'In 1808 he first sketched the boundary-lines of the various strata in England and Wales, and in 1810 he travelled over a great part of the country for the purpose of mapping it. At the request of the Geological Society he then, with the help of Conybeare, Buckland, and Henry Warburton, coloured a large scale-map drawn by Webster, and in 1820 published it in six sheets' (DNB). It is now recognised that he plagiarised William Smith's pioneering geological map of 1815, and some have even suggested that the present work's publication drove Smith into debtors' prison. We can only trace four other copies at auction since 1972 (RBH). Challinor 91.



Large hand-coloured engraved map, to the scale of 5 nautical miles to one inch, large title on north-eastern sheet in North Sea, key in cartouche to eastern edge over two sheets, printed on 6 double-page sheets (each 650 x 840 mm), making a complete map approx. 1950 x 1680mm.

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