Author: SCROPE, G POULETT F.R.S., F.G.S.
Title: The Geology and Extinct Volcanos of Central France.
Description: 1858. Hardcover. Book, 2nd edn, enlarged and improved, Murray, London, 1858. 8vo, xviii, 258p. 17 plates, many folding, and 2 folding coloured maps. Inscr. Nr fine copy in attractive recent 1/4 calf, spine gilt in compartments, marbled boards. English geologist and political economist whose volcanic studies helped unseat the Neptunist theories that all the world's rocks were formed by sedimentation from the oceans. Very Good.

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