Author: ROBINSON, THO. RECTOR OF OUSBY, CUMBERLAND.
Title: An Essay towards a Natural History of Westmorland and Cumberland. Wherein an account is given of their several mineral and surface productions, with some directions how to discover minerals by the external and adjacent strata and upper covers, &c. To which is annexed, a vindication of the philosophical and theological paraphrase of the Mosaick system of the creation, &c.
Description: 1709, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Freeman, 1709. 8vo, [xvi], 95p, 118p, 2p ads. Contemporary full panelled calf, neat old reback, raised bands, gilt title label. Slight wear, mainly to corners, VG. Small inscr 'J A Marshall'. Partial bookplate of Smart Lethieullier, English antiquary, on back of title. Not in Bicknell. DNB - '?Thomas Robinson (d. 1719), writer on natural history, was appointed to the rectory of Ousby, Cumberland, in 1672. His leisure he devoted to collecting facts about the mining, minerals, and natural history of the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, which he put before the world in a quaint 'Anatomy of the Earth,' London, 1694, 4to. This was followed by 'An Essay towards a Natural History of Westmorland and Cumberland, to which is annexed a Vindication of the Philosophical and Theological Paraphrase of the Mosaick System of the Creation'. One of the earliest descriptions of the mountains and lakes and the early mining of the minerals. Very Good.

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