A cruise among the volcanos of the Kurile Islands

by John Milne

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: 1879 . 8vo, pp. 12; lithograph chart; publisher's red cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover; some fading on the back cover and lower corner of the upper cover, else very good, sound, and clean. Offprint, undoubtedly for the author's own use, from the Geological Magazine, Decade II, Volume VI, No. 8, for August, 1879. John Milne 1850-1913 was a British geologist from Liverpool. He came to Tokyo in 1876 at the behest of the Meiji government to study earthquakes. Subsequently, he became one

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