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Set of 8 prints showing plans of towns with panoramas, views and comparative elevations of principal buildings to same scale. All published for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Top row, left to right: 1. Liverpool, 2. New York, 3. Genoa, 4. Lisbon. Second row, left to right, 5. Marseilles, 6. Naples., 7. Bordeaux, 8. Copenhagen.

Scope and Contents Contains extensive autograph manuscript drafts of texts, with cancellations, revisions and additions, and with illustrative plates and maps: 1. 'On the Geology of some parts of Madeira' by Sir Charles Lyell. Notes on text about Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Index to Notebook 195. 2. Original packaging 'Original Geological MS Notes of Sir Charles Lyell (Lady Lyell preserved these - as she was asked at times for autographs, and as time advances, they may be still more valuable)'....

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Plan of Naples showing layout and elevations of principal buildings to scale.

Scope and Contents This brown leather notebook covers Lyell's activity from Ishcia to Naples. It contains geological notes on Herculaneum, Pompeii, Versuvius; Notes on William Hamilton on great earthquakes in Calabria in 1782; 'Differences between geologist and ordinary observer'; 'Partial activity in the agents of change'; 'Migration'. The front cover plate reads "No 5 Italy 1828 Ischia to Naples Oct 31st to Nov. 15th." The following table of contents is...