Antiquarian

ILLUSTRATIONS ON THE GEOLOGY OF YORKSHIRE; Or a Description of the Strata and Organic Remains of the Yorkshire Coast: Accompanied by a Geological Map, Sections, and Plates of the Fossil Plants and Animals.
by John Phillips, F.G.S. Keeper of the Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society; Honorary member of the Philosophical Societies of Yorkshire, Leeds, and Hull.
York: Printed for the Author by Thomas Wilson and Sons, High-Ousegate. 1829. 
4to. (23x28). Later brown cloth, paper label to front board with blind stamp label for C.W. Holditch Booksellers 11, Queen Street, Hull. xvi, & 192 pages, Map of East Yorkshire hand coloured, 9 plates of sectional diagrams all but one hand coloured, 14 lithographic plates of fossils. All the plates are drawn by Philips.
John Philips (1800-1874) was born on Christmas day, 1800 at Marden, Wiltshire. Both his parents died in in 1808 and he was supported by his uncle, William Smith the renowned geologist. 

Boards and paper title label worn and water stained, but binding firm and contents clean and undamaged.
Rare first edition with all the plates.