CHAMBERS, ROBERT: - Tracings of Iceland & The Faroe Islands. London and Edinburgh, Printed by W. and R. Chambers,1856.

. Pp. (iv), 85. With frontispiece, a vignette and two maps in the text. As issued in original green glossed paper wrapper, printed in black, lightly rubbed. Old ownership signature on front wrapper. Rare, first separate edition of a geological treatise.Chambers was a noted scientific geologist, mainly known for his "Vestiges of the Natural history of Creation" (1844), a speculative work on natural history. He carried out geological surveys during his travels in Scandinavia and Canada. This work devoted to Iceland and the Faroe Islands was originally published in Chamber's Edinburgh Journal in the previous year. It was translated into Danish in 1855. Fiske I:86.

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