£320
Natural History and Geology. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume VII: [Part First], Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co., 1815, half-title, title with engraved vignette, including papers: Hall, On the Vertical Position and Convolutions of certain Strata; Allan, Remarks on the Transition Rocks of Werner; Hall, On the Revolutions of the Earth's Surface, Parts I & II; Mackenzie, An Account of some Geological Facts observed in the Faroe Islands; Allan, An Account of the Mineralogy of the Faroe Islands; Hall, Account of the Structure of the Table Mountain, and other Parts of the Peninsular of the Cape; another three geological papers out of seventeen in total, 22 folding and full-page plates, original wrappers, split/splitting, 4to; Murchison (Sir Roderick Impey), Siluria. The History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains, London: John Murray, 1854, folding hand-coloured geological map, folding and full-page lithographed plates, in-text illustrations, later 20th c tan morocco over marbled boards, 8vo; Dana (Edward Salisbury), Descriptive Mineralogy: The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana 1837-1868, sixth edition, London: Kegan Paul et al, 1894, title quire split but present, otherwise unexamined, original publisher's cloth, 4to; Darwin (Charles), The Descent of Man, London: John Murray, 1901, half-title, original publisher's green cloth, staining to fore-edge, but not affecting leaves' letters or margins, 8vo; Miller's Testimony of the Rocks, first edition, Edinburgh: Shepherd & Elliot, 1857, frontispiece and in-text illustrations, 20th c tan morocco over 19th c marbled boards, later endpapers, uncut, 8vo, (5)
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