Author: GEIKIE Sir Archibald
Title: Text-Book of Geology. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Description: Macmillan,, 1893. 8vo., Third Edition, with large folding frontispiece and very numerous engraved illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on half-title, title lightly dust-soiled; original green cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 3pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Geikie's classic text was first published in 1882 and continually expanded. 'Great literature on great themes' (Challinor). Pre-eminent among British geologists, Geikie remains the only one to have been appointed President of the Royal Society (1908-1912). Challinor 249. (recording the first edition).

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