GEIKIE (A).: Text-Book of Geology. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged , Macmillan, 1893

8vo., Third Edition, with a large folding frontispiece and very numerous engraved illustrations in the text, title lightly dust-soiled; original green cloth, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip gilt laid down, a very good, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Gilbert & Field on front paste-down and 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). (Book ref. 19803)  £80.00

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