Geology
A collection of 12 geology books
£400
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 22 September 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
Nicol, James Guide to the Geology of Scotland. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1844. 8vo, frontispiece, 9 hand-coloured plates, hand-coloured folding map, modern quarter calf; Miller, Hugh The Testimony of the Rocks... Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co., 1857. 8vo, contemporary red calf gilt; another copy, dated 1862, contemporary calf neatly rebacked; another copy, dated 1890, red half calf gilt; [Idem] The Cruise of the Betsey. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1879. Twelfth edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf gilt; [Idem] Sketch-Book of Popular Geology. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1880. Ninth edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf gilt; [Idem] The Old Red Sandstone... Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1882. Twenty-third edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf; Geikie, Archibald Text-Book of Geology. London: Macmillan and Co., 1885. 8vo, folding plate, blue calf gilt with the arms of the Royal Military College Canada; [Idem] An extract comprising pp.212-375 from an encyclopaedia being Geikie's entry on Geology, in green half morocco; MacGillivray, William A Manual of Geology. London: Adam Scott, [n.d.] Second edition, 12mo, hand-coloured folding map, contemporary calf gilt; Harker, Alfred [Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom] The Tertiary Igneous Rocks of Skye. Glasgow: HMSO, 1904. 8vo, later red half calf; Wilson, Ronald E. Two Hundred Precious Metal Years: A history of the Sheffield Smelting Company Limited 1760-1960. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1960. 8vo, red crushed morocco gilt (12)