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    By Raphael Meldola; William White
    London   Macmillan & Co
    9.5" by 6.5" x [1], 2-228 [1]pp
    A wonderful example of the first edition of Raphael Meldola and William White's guide to the 1884 Colchester earthquake.
    By Raphael Meldola; William White

    1885 Report on the East Anglian Earthquake of April 22nd, 1884

    London   Macmillan & Co
    9.5" by 6.5" x [1], 2-228 [1]pp
    A wonderful example of the first edition of Raphael Meldola and William White's guide to the 1884 Colchester earthquake.
    £98.00
    : 1kgs / : 964F42
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    The first edition of this work.

    With four plates, two of which are folding, and further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.

    A discussion of the Great English earthquake of 1884, which caused considerable damage in Colchester and the surrounding villages in Essex. It is the most destructive earthquake to have hit the United Kingdom in at least the last 400 years, since the Dover Straits earthquake of 1580.

    This work is volume I of the 'Essex Field Club Special Memoirs'.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent, with just a touch of fading to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to first and last few leaves, with pages otherwise exceptionally clean and bright.

    Near Fine

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