Books - History of Geology

Shipley, William. William Shipley, Founder of the Society of Arts; a Biography with documents (1979), by DGC Allan. Scolar Press, London, revised printing of 1st edition of 1968,239pp. Hardback with...

Bate, Dorothea. Discovering Dorothea;the Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate, (2005), by Karolyn Shindler. Harper Collins, London, 1st edition, 390pp. Hardback in new condition. Bate (1879-1951), a pioneering palaeontolgist...

Map: Poems After William Smith’s Geological Map of 1815, 2015. Ed. Michael McKimm. Tonbridge, UK: Worple Press. 1st edition. ISBN: 978-1-905208-32-6. A5 paperback, 88 pp. Probably, this is the first...

Pioneers of Evolution, publ. Cassel, by Edward Clodd, 1907, Cassell and Co., 2nd edition. 252pp. HB with green cloth covers, gilt-stamped titles on spine and cover. Slight shelf-wear and bumping, minor...

Clark, David & Stephen (2001). Newton's Tyranny: the Suppressed Scientific Discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed, New York: WH Freeman, 1st edition. 188pp. Hardback, as new. This fascinating study...

Vaughan, Adrian (1997). Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Knight-Errant, London: John Murray. 285pp. Paperback in as new condition.

Allen, D.A. (1976). The Naturalist in Britain; A Social History. London: Allen Lane 1st ed. 292pp. Hardback, light brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Negligible wear, binding sound....

Repcheck, James (2003).The Man who found Time; James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth’s Antiquity, New York: Simon & Schuster, As new but without dust jacket.

Edwards, W.N. (1976). The Early History of Palaeontology. London: British Museum (Natural History). Reprint of 1967 1st edition, 61pp. PB, owner signature on half-title, otherwise, clean, unmarked and in near...

Browne, Janet (2003). Charles Darwin; a portrait in Letters and Print. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd. 64pp. 1st edition. Paperback with cloth-card laminate cover. New. m/s title on spine. Text clean,...

Rudwick, MJS. (1969 ‘The Glacial Theory’, a review essay of Louis Agassiz, Studies on Glaciers, translated by Albert V. Carozzi, 1967, offprint from History of Science, v.8, issue 1, pp....

Wallace, David R. (1999). The Bonehunters’ Revenge; Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1st ed. 366 + xiv pp. PB....

Smith William. (2015). A Memoir to the Map and Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales with part of Scotland. FACSIMILE. [Keyworth] British Geological Survey 52pp. PB. Negligible wear,...

Morrell, Jack and Thackray, John (eds) (1984). Gentlemen of Science: Early Correspondence of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Camden Forth Series, vol. 30. London: Royal Historical Society,...

Autographed BA 1951 dinner menu. British Association Edinburgh meeting. Royal British Hotel menu 19 x 11.5cm  for Monday 13th August, 1951. Circulated to collect approximately 46 signatures as souvenir. Including:...

Ewing, Heather (2007). The Lost World of James Smithson; Science, Revolution and the Birth of the Smithsonian. London: Bloomsbury, 432 + x pp. Hardback, blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering...

Kitaibel, Paul and Tomtsanyi, Adam (1814). 1960 Facsimile. Report on the Earthquake of Mór in the year 1810. Budapest, In Latin. 110pp.  Facsimile first edition. Budapest: Akademiai  Kiadó. 110 pp...

Keynes, Randal (2001). Annie’s Box; Charles Darwin, his daughter and Human Evolution. London: Fourth Estate, 1st edition, 331pp. Hardback with dustjacket in new condition. An account, based on Darwin family...