Description of Norfolk, its soil and substrata

Item author: William Smith
Item date: 1807
Grant Value: £3,000
Item cost: £24,500
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2008
Item institution: Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

The unique copy of a work by William Smith (1769-1839), the pre-eminent English geologist of his time, long believed lost.

Item Provenance
Dawson Turner (1775-1858); James. M. Wordie of St John's College, Cambridge (d.1962); S. K Walden of Great Yarmouth, bookseller.