Books - History of Geology

Phillips, John. Memoirs of William Smith, LL.D., Author of the “Map of the Strata of England and Wales”, 1844. London: John Murray. 22 x 14cm (8.75x5.5 inches), 150pp. Early leather...

The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, Cambridge, The University Press, 1890, 1st edition. 2 volumes, 534 + 640pp. HB with polished brown cloth covers, gilt-stamped titles on...

Darwin and Modern Science; Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of the Origin of Species, publ....

Robert Dick, Baker of Thurso, Botanist and Geologist, publ John Murray, London, 1878, 1st edition. 436 pp + 6pp adverts. HB with green cloth covers with gilt-stamped titles on spines....

Louis Agassiz; a Life in Science, publ. U.Chicago Press, first edition, 1960. 449pp. HB in very good condition, with minor tears and wear to dustjacket.

Celebrating the Life and Times of Hugh Miller; Scotland in the Early 19th Century, ethnography and folklore, geology and natural history, church and society, 2003. Cromarty, Cromarty Arts Trust. 352pp....

James Hutton – Present and Future, publ. Geological Society, special publ'n 150, 1999. HB in as new condition. This book provides a partial record of events at the Hutton section...

James David Forbes; Pioneer Scottish Glaciologist, publ. Scottish Academic Press, 1st edition, 1990. 329pp. HB with dustjacket in very good condition.

Einstein: a Biography, publ. Weidenfield and Nicolson, London, 1954, 1st English edition. Translated from French by M.Budberg. 219pp. HB, in very good condition, slight age toning of paper, dustjacket is...

Pioneers of Evolution, publ. Cassel, 1907, 2nd edition. 252pp. HB with green cloth covers, gilt-stamped titles on spine and cover. Slight shelf-wear and bumping, minor tears to top of faded...

Thomas Henry Huxley; a character sketch, publ. Watts and Co, London, 1920, 1st edition. 120pp. Slightly bumped, binding sound, slight age toning, otherwise in very good condition. No dustjacket. This...

Scientist Extraordinairy; the Life and Scientific Work of Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825-1895, publ. Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1972, 1st edition. 208pp. HB, clean, sound binding, in very good condition. General wear...

Darwin and the Beagle, publ. Hamish Hamilton, 1969, 1st edition, 2nd impression. 280pp. HB, lightly bumped, binding sound, dustjacket with minor marginal tears, otherwise in very good condition. Abundantly illustrated...

Great Men of Science; a History of Scientific Progress, publ. Bell, London, 1954. Translated from German by HS Hatfield. 389pp. HB, slight age-toning and corners bumped, no dustjacket, otherwise, in...

Benjamin Silliman; a Life in the Young Republic, publ. Princeton UP, 1989, 1st edition. 377pp. HB with dustjacket in new condition. Silliman (1799-1864), founder of the American Journal of Science,...

The Humboldt Current: a European Explorer and his American Disciples, Oxford University Press, 2007, 1st edition. 496pp. HB in black cloth covered boards, with gilt-stamped title. DJ. All in as...

Lives of the Engineers, George and Robert Stephenson: the Locomotive, publ John Murray, London, 1904, ‘popular’ edition (1st was 1887). 510 pp + 4pp adverts. HB with red cloth covers...

Measuring Mother Earth, publ, McLelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2007, 1st edition. 348pp. HB, as new with dustjacket. The career of the geologist JosephTyrell (1858-1957) spanned the opening of the Canadian...

A Particle of Clay; the biography of Alec Skempton, Civil Engineer, publ. Whittles, Caithness, 2002, 1st edition. 208pp. HB with dustjacket in as new condition. Skempton effectively established soil mechanics...

The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China, publ. Jonathan Cape, London, 1999, 1st edition. 244pp. HB, new with dustjacket. Deprat was a rising star in the geological...