Back

Fragments of Earth Lore: Sketches & Addresses, Geological and Geographical

24EF3491-F2B5-47E6-BE43-98FEF92C91ED
AFDF0646-C8F8-424C-BC16-A19620A03638
3BBB69EC-DACF-4B0D-BC7E-CABB58BC3C58
2DF15967-81E9-40E6-A634-822E4491E378
32E5174B-5D32-4729-8FE0-33121F7D43A3
0338DA30-6E50-4D1F-8A47-63A6AEC77E9F

Book Description

First edition. “With maps and illustrations”; chiefly six colour folding maps and charts, and several in-text figures. Gilt-titled, dark blue cloth, a bit rubbed; with minor wear at corners and tiny tears at spine ends; small mark near top of joint on front; rear hinge *just* starting, still strong; contents clean and tight.
Dealer Notes
Geikie was Murchison Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Edinburgh, with a special interest in the affects of glacial activity on the earth’s surface. “Professor Geike’s scattered papers on glaciation and physical geography published during the last few years are here collected in a handsome volumes …” (cf. review in the Geological Journal)
Author James Geikie
Date 1893
Binding Original cloth
Publisher Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Co.
Condition Near fine
Pages [4], 428 p.

Other books

If you liked the book you've just seen, you might be interested in other books from the same dealer below.

Explore

The Law of Storms Considered Practically; Being a...

William Henry Rosser

London: Norie & Wilson

£55.00

Offered by Wilfrid de Freitas

The P. L.M. Guide to the Alps: Touring and Mountai...

Anon

[New York] General American Agency of the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway,

£25.00

Offered by Wilfrid de Freitas

Duffy

Dan Kavanagh [i.e. Julian Barnes]

London: Jonathan Cape

£65.00

Offered by Wilfrid de Freitas

The Guide to Railway Masonry Containing a Complete...

Peter Nicholson

London: Groombridge & Sons

£130.00

Offered by Wilfrid de Freitas

The Woman in the Case

Edgar Lustgarten

London: Andre Deutsch

£25.00

Offered by Wilfrid de Freitas

Principal Excursions of the Innerleithen Alpine Cl...

Several

Galashiels: John McQueen "Scottish Border Record" Office

£95.00

Offered by Wilfrid de Freitas

The Lyre of Orpheus; signed

Robertson Davies

Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library

£30.00

Offered by Wilfrid de Freitas

[7 volumes] The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin...

Alexander William Kinglake

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons

£195.00

Offered by Wilfrid de Freitas

Heaton Butler & Bayne: Un Siècle d’Art du Vitrail...

Mrs. S.B.M. (Simone) Bayne

[Switzerland ?: the Author]; Imprimerie Marendaz Offset Couleurs

£35.00

Offered by Wilfrid de Freitas

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Fitzgerald, Edward [translator]

London: George Harrap

£30.00

Offered by Wilfrid de Freitas

Friends of the PBFA

For £10 get free entry to our fairs, updates from the PBFA and more.

Please email info@pbfa.org for more information

Join PBFA

Membership of the PBFA is open to anyone who has been trading in antiquarian and second-hand books for a minimum of two years subject to certain criteria.

Email info@pbfa.org to find out more, or complete the enquiry form.

complete the form