Author: GEIKIE Sir Archibald
Title: The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain. CRISP, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Description: Macmillan,, 1897. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text, and 7 large folding maps coloured in outline, some light and generally inoffensive spotting, small stamp on half-title of first volume; original dark green ribbed cloth, boards ruled in blind, gilt backs, uncut, expertly recased with hand-made endpapers, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy of a scarce and important work. With 2pp and 4pp publisher's advertisements at end of first and second volumes respectively. The author is the only geologist to have been President of the Royal Society, and certainly the leading figure in British geology during the late Victorian - Early Edwardian period. 'Great in research and administration, above all in his writings, which are great literature on great themes' (Challinor). Challinor 318.

Keywords: geology, volcanoes, vulcanology, seismology, geikie, archibald geikie,


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