Boscowitz, Arnold. EARTHQUAKES Translated from the French of ... By C.B. Pitman. George Routledge and Sons 1890.
1st Ed. xviii + 395pp. 57 ills. Light age toning, prize bookplate for Miss J. Silcock, gilt and black lettered pictorial maroon cloth, minor marking, spine sl. faded and bumped, a.e.g.
£40.00 [ref: 293605]

Dawkins, W. Boyd. CAVE HUNTING, Researches of the Evidence of Caves Respecting the Early Inhabitants of Europe. Macmillan and Co. 1874.
1st Ed. xxiv 455pp. Chromolitho. frontis., 129 woodcuts. Hinges cracked, sl. shaken, some light marginal age toning, ex.-Joseph Rowntree Memorial lib. with bookplate accession nos. to half title and blind embossed lib. stamp to tail of title page, original gilt lettered brown cloth with gilt and silver ills. to upper board, minor soiling, extremities and joints rubbed, corners bumped and sl. worn, spine darkened and sl. rubbed with head and tail bumped and chipped, t.e.g.
Inscribed ‘To Joseph Rowntree with ? love from his affectionate mother J. Rowntree, ? 24-1879.’
£125.00 [ref: 293122]

Geikie, Sir Archibald. THE FOUNDERS OF GEOLOGY Macmillan and Co., Limited 1905.
2nd Ed. [xii] + 486pp. + [ii] adverts. Contemporary ownership inscription, f.e.ps. lightly browned, some sporadic spotting, original gilt lettered blue cloth with gilt armorial device to boards, cloth soiled and rubbed, corners sl. bumped, edges of leaves spotted, spine browned and sl. bumped at head and tail, uncut.
£35.00 [ref: 288752]

Hernandez-Pacheco. Eduardo and Francisco et al. EL SAHARA ESPAÑOL Estudio Geologico, Geografico y Botanico. Madrid 1949.
1st Ed. Sm. 4to. 808pp. Numerous diagrams and figures, 2 colour plates, 134 plates, 6 folding maps/sections. Spanish text. From the Library of Dr James Bynon, with the signature of F. White, leading corner sl. creased, gilt lettered red cloth, minor marking.
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Instituto de Estudios Africanos.
£150.00 [ref: 286860]

Hobbs, William Herbert. EARTH FEATURES and Their Meaning. An Introduction to Geology For the Student and the General Reader. NY Macmillan Co. 1919.
Reprint. xxxix + 506pp. + [vi]. 493 figures, 24 plates. Light browning, original gilt lettered green cloth, spine bumped, gilt armorial shields stamped to boards, spine sl. faded and bumped.
First published 1912. From the Library and with the signature of Henry Price Lewis (1895-1947), Professor of Geology University College of Wales Aberystwyth.
£25.00 [ref: 288655]

Kölbl-Ebert, Martina. (Editor). GEOLOGY AND RELIGION: A History of Harmony and Hostility. Geological Society 2009.
Large 8vo. vi + 357pp. + [v]. Many figures. Good in white lettered blue coloured pictorial laminated boards, lightly faded to spine.
Geological Society Special Publication No. 310.
£25.00 [ref: 290391]

Lunine, Jonathan I. EARTH Evolution of a Habitable World. CUP 2013.
2nd Ed. Sm. 4to. 318pp. Profusely ills. including some colour. Original laminated boards.
£50.00 [ref: 282586]

Lyell, Sir Charles. THE STUDENT’S ELEMENTS OF GEOLOGY. Revised by P. Martin Duncan. John Murray 1885.
4th Ed., Revised. 20pp. + 621pp. + [i] + 32pp. publ. cat. dated Nov. 1885. With a Table of British Fossils, frontis., vignette title page, and 636 figures. 8 relevant plates loosely inserted at rear, hinges cracked and sl. shaken, sl. staining to e.ps., contemporary inscription to front pastedown, original gilt lettered green cloth with gilt device to upper board, light dampspotting to boards, corners sl. bumped, sl. wear to cloth towards upper corner of upper board resulting in sm. hole to cloth, sl. wear to lower joint, sl. bubbling of cloth moreso to lower board, spine rubbed and sl. bumped at head and tail.
£25.00 [ref: 293569]

Murchison, Roderick Impey. THE SILURIAN SYSTEM, Founded on Geological Researches in the Counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monouth, Gloucester, Worcester and Stafford; With Descriptions of the Coal-Fields and Overlying Formations. John Murray 1839.
1st Ed. 2 parts bound in 1 volume. With 6pp. Subscribers. xxxii + 576pp. + [ii] + pp.([577]-768). 14 lithographic sketches including 2 hand coloured 1 folding and 1 folding hand coloured; 112 woodcuts, [lacking detached large map of Silurian Region with small map of England inset], 3 maps on 2 sheets, 31 lithographic plates of fossils, 9 folding plates of coloured sections. Some foxing to plates, rebound in modern gilt rule edged half calf with cloth boards, minor marking and wear, gilt ruling and gilt lettered label to lightly faded spine.
Our copy lacking (as usual) the detached large map of Silurian Region with small map of England inset, but with ‘Figures of the Silurian Fossils to Illustrate Murchison’s ‘Siluria’ 5th Edition with a map John Murray 1872’ in frayed and marked gilt lettered cloth. With 41 litho. plates and Folding colour ‘Geological Map of the Silurian Rocks 49 x 43cm. repaired to verso. Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Baronet (1792–1871), geologist and geographer. ODNB ‘... At last, at the end of 1839, [the above work] was published, embodying the results obtained by Murchison himself, or supplied to him by others. It was an important milestone in geology, for it established the oldest fossil-bearing classification then known. Murchison took great pride in his system as an important period in the history of life and as a geographical entity whose expansive potential provided ample scope for his overweening ambitions ...’
£2,000.00 [ref: 289713]

Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey. SILURIA. The History of the Oldest Fossiliferous Rocks and Their Foundations; With a Brief Sketch of the Distribution of Gold Over the Earth. John Murray 1859.
3rd Edition (Including “The Silurian System,”). Thick 8vo. xix + [i] + 592pp. Chromolitho. frontis. and 41 litho. plates including 7 double page (with some waterstaining) with letterpress leaves, folding map, 1 section plate, numerous ills., [lacking colour folding map]. With the signature of ‘James Winter 1861’, hinges cracked though firm between 12-13 and 430-431, age toning, contemporary half calf with maroon cloth boards, some wear to edges with loss across head of rubbed spine, gilt lettered title label and gilt ruling to spine.
John Mill (1815-1881). From the Library and with the signature of Henry Price Lewis (1895-1947), Professor of Geology University College of Wales Aberystwyth. ODNB ‘... at the end of 1839, The Silurian System was published, embodying the results obtained by Murchison himself, or supplied to him by others. It was an important milestone in geology, for it established the oldest fossil-bearing classification then known ...’
£200.00 [ref: 288650]