{"product_id":"richard-owen-geology-inhabitants-ancient-world-first-edition-123474","title":"Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World.","description":"The rare first edition of the first guide to the Crystal Palace dinosaurs by palaeontologist Richard Owen (1804-1892), bound with two other works on the venue's contents that were published in the same year. Worldcat locates three copies, at the University of East Anglia, Glasgow, and the British Library, and no other copies appear in auction records since 2000.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Crystal Palace park opened in June, 1854 and the 'dinosaurs' installed there - over thirty sculptures constructed by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894) between 1853 and 1855 - 'represent the first ever attempt anywhere in the world to model extinct animals as full-scale, three-dimensional, active creatures from fossil remains' (Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst editions; 8vo (16.5 x 10.75 cm); folding plate, engravings within the text, 20th century ownership inscriptions to the front free endpaper, some spotting to the contents; contemporary black half calf, marbled sides, spine gilt in compartments, green endpapers, red speckled edges, binding rubbed with some wear at the corners and ends of spine; 39, 238 \u0026amp; 92 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"[DINOSAURS] OWEN, Richard; PHILLIPS, Samuel; FORBES, Edward.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57677118177655,"sku":"123474","price":1719.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/123474_01.jpg?v=1793728584","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/en-us\/products\/richard-owen-geology-inhabitants-ancient-world-first-edition-123474","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}