[Rarebooks] fa: PALEONTOLOGY: RICHARD OWEN on RHYNCHOSAURUS + FOSSIL MULTILOCULAR SHELLS 1838-42

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other antiquarian scientific works, auction ending Sunday, September 22. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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D. T. Ansted: On a new Genus of Fossil Multilocular Shells, found in the Slate-Rocks of Cornwall. 1838. [BOUND WITH] Richard Owen:Description of an Extinct Lacertian Reptile, Rhynchosaurus articeps, Owen, of which the Bones and Foot-prints characterize the Upper New red Sandstone at Grunsell, near Shrewsbury. [Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1838, 1842.] Two separate papers, extracted from broken volumes of the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and bound in modern burgundy french wraps; 4to (28 x 22 cm); p. 415-422; p. 289-300 (20 pages total), plus three leaves of lithograph plates (complete). Mild toning to the leaves, damp-stain to the margins of the plates, otherwise clean and sound and firmly bound in fresh modern wraps.

Two separate and complete papers related to paleontology. Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), anatomist, naturalist and paleontologist, was one of the leading scientific figures of his time, a friend and associate of Charles Darwin (with whom he famously disagreed over the concept of natural selection), as well as William Whewell, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Charles Dickens, Jenny Lind, George Eliot, John Ruskin and Lord Tennyson. Owen is credited with originating the term Dinosaur, or "terrible reptile." In this relatively early paper, he describes a new genus and species of reptile discovered by quarrymen in Shropshire. David Ansted (1814-1880) was, at the time he wrote this paper on shell fossils, a young Cambridge associate of the celebrated geologist Adam Sedgwick.