Lot 241
Chambers, Robert
Auction: 13 January 2010 at 11:00 GMT
£350
Description
Ancient sea-margins, as memorials of change in the relative level of sea and land. Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1848. First edition, 8vo, [iii-vi, 338], folding map, partly hand-coloured, laid down on linen, lithographed frontispiece, illustrations, contemporary calf, spine gilt, Northern Light Board gilt stamp on upper cover, lacks half-title
Footnote
Note: First edition of Robert Chambers' first geological book, published four years after his anonymously published Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.