12th Sep, 2018 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
  Lot 108
 

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Scottish Geology Milne [Home], David Memoir on the Lothian and Mid-Lothian Coalfields. William...

Scottish Geology Milne [Home], David Memoir on the Lothian and Mid-Lothian Coalfields. William Blackwood and Sons., Edinburgh, and T. Cadell, Strand, London, 1839. 4to, cloth; 4 folding tables, 2 folding, hand-coloured plates of sections, 1 folding hand-coloured map, illus. and tables to text. Milne Home, David The Estuary of the Forth and Adjoining Districts Viewed Geologically. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1871. 8vo, cloth; folding, hand-coloured map frontis. Milne Home was a Scottish advocate, geologist and meteorologist. He founded the Scottish Meteorological Society, was president of the Edinburgh Geological Society, and coined the word seismometer. Ramsay, Andrew Crombie The Geology of the Island of Arran. Glasgow: Richard Griffin & Company and Thomas Tegg, London, 1841. 8vo, cloth; hand-coloured map frontis, 1 hand-coloured plate of sections, numerous illus. to text. First ed. A rare and detailed work. With 8 other works of Scottish geological interest including: Bell, Among the Rocks Around Glasgow, gift inscription to the Edinburgh Geological Society from co-founder Ralph Richardson; and MacLaren, Geology of Fife and the Lothians, sometime rebound in full calf gilt; also works by Hugh Miller. [11]

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Estimated at £200 - £300


 

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