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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback. New.

Paperback. New.

London: John Murray, 1832. minor spotting, overall a very good set.. Three volumes, octavo, with a total of 11 plates, two of which are hand-coloured frontispieces, and including three maps, two of which are folding and two coloured; without the half-title in vol. 3, not called for in other volumes; bound in later plain calf, flat spines banded and numbered in gilt, red leather labels. A good early set of this classic by 'the father of modern geology', composed of the second edition of the first volume, and first editions of the other two volumes. Principles of Geology "has been called the most important scientific book ever... [it] shook prevailing views of how the earth had been formed" (Cambridge). "One of the key works in the nineteenth century encounters between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena. Written with clarity and a dazzling… Read More