England and New York: Leceister University Press / Humanities Press, 1969. Blue boards. pp (26), (viii), 198. Facsimile reprint, with new Introduction, of the Cambridge 1832 edition. Light and neat ink underling to only half a dozen scattered words in text, a few tiny ink margin ticks, small ink note at bottom of rear flap of jacket, else fine, no owner names. Orange price-clipped dust jacket has a light damp stain at bottom, edge nicks and minor rubbing, VG and bright otherwise. A volume in the publisher's The Victorian Library series. An argument for the liberalization of the English university curriculum. Sedgwick was the great Christian geologist at Cambridge who got Darwin interested in the subject. "This volume reprints the expanded, published version of the discourse given in 1832 in Trinity College Cambridge. Adam Sedgwick dealt with two controversial issues of his time; the significance of the new gerological data about the origins of the earth, and the attitude which Christians should adopt towards the theory of utility." - jacket.

Toronto: Warwick & Sons, 1887. Blue pictorial bevel edge cloth stamped in black, gilt and blind. pp [2], 2, 190, (191)-217, business directory (ads) for Port Arthur + colour folding map at front + 2 lithographed views. Full-page woodcut illustration in ads, illustrations in text including a full-page diagram. No errata slip.The two lithographed plates are titled "Sketch of Beaver Mountain Silver Mining Location. Near Port Arthur. Looking West From Magazine At Foot of Hill" and "Reduction Works On Silver Creek. Beaver Mine. Looking North". The author, a civil engineer and topographical surveyor, was employed as a land valuator and inspector for the C.P.R., and also examined and reported on mining locations in northern Ontario. Morley p. 42. The map, of the mineral district, north shore of LakeSuperior. is often lacking and some copies may have been issued without it. This map has two small tears, else in excellent condition. Book has minor rubbing to spine ends and outer corners; the map has caused offset browing to the adjacent front blank and title leaf; else a fine, bright copy. Most uncommon in this nice condition. An excellent Canadian mining item.

University of Toronto Press (with The Royal Society of Canada), 1966. Green cloth stamped in gilt. (x), 140 pp + 3 folding maps in pouch at rear; maps, diagrams and photos in text. Soft ripple to lower outer corner of half-title leaf, else a fine copy, no owner marks. "The possibility that the continents of the earth have undergone major changes in position during the earth's history has fascinated scholars for at least least three hundred years. Recently, evidence from several scientific disciplines has shown that the possibility must be very seriously considered in any study of the surface features of the earth. The first part of the present volume consists of papers given at a symposium on continental drift, held at the annual meeting of the Royal Society of Canada, in Charlottetown in June 1964. They present the views of three geophysicists, a botanist, and an astronomer. In these papers, the present evidence for or against continental drift is reviewed and the authors in most cases draw their own conclusions. The reader will find that there is not unanimous agreement in favour of drift." - Preface. Part II is "Evidence on Continental Drift from the Arctic and Eastern Seaboard of Canada". All the contributors were Canadian scientists. The theory of "plate techtonics" was only developed in the mid-1960s.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1879. Later printing (first US was in 1872). Octavo. pp 406 + colour frontispiece + 3 plates with tissue guards + 1 map + 1 folding map at rear, top edge gilt. Index. Numerous woodcut illustrations and maps in text. Lacking the folding map of Fiji at rear. Folding isocrymal chart of the world at rear has a fold split neatly repaired, one corner chip, creases. Rebound in modern blue buckram. Ink digits at bottom of Contents page and last page, else a mainly fine, clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names. Dana was Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at Yale and a member of the Wilkes U.S. Exploring Expedition. of 1838-42, which visited the Tuamotus, the Societies, Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji. The steel engravings are after A.T. Agate (Utiroa, Cocoanut Grove at Fakaafo or Bowditch Island, Scene at Oatafu Island). 1.5 kg parcel

London: HarperCollins, c2004. pp x, 501 + colour plates. Illustrations in text, index. Fine in fine jacket. "The face of the Earth, criss-crossed by chains of mountains like the scars of old wounds has changed constantly over billions of years, and the testament of the remote past is all around us. In this book, Richard Fortey teaches us how to read its character, laying out the dominions of the world before us. He shows how everything -- human culture, natural history, even the shape of cities -- roots back to a deeper geological truth. Far from being the driest of sciences, he proves that geology informs all our lives in the most intimate way. Nothing in this book seems to be at rest. The surface of the Earth dilates and collapses; seas and mountains rise and fall; continents move. We climb the Alps, wallow in Icelandic hot springs, dive down to the ocean floor; we explore the barren rocks of Newfoundland, walk through the lush ecosystems of Hawaii, cross the salt flats of Oman and saunter along the San Andreas Fault. And Fortey is the ideal guide, his descriptions of natural beauty as memorable as the best travel-writers, his prose as gripping as the best novelist, his crystal-clear scientific explanations fascinating and often surprising." - jacket. 1.5 kg parcel.