Text-Book of Geology
GEIKIE, Archibald
Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged.
BRIGHT, FRESH SET OF THE BEST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
Published: Macmillan, 1903
Stock code: 19774
Price: £40.00
2 vols., 8vo., Fourth and Best Edition, with large folding frontispiece and very numerous engraved illustrations in the text, some occasional and very light age-staining (rather heavier on half-titles and preliminaries); original ribbed green cloth, gilt backs, gilt tops, neatly recased, a remarkably bright, fresh, clean set.
With 2pp publisher's advertisement at end of first volume. Sold from an institution wit its press-marks on front endpapers (only). Bright set of the best edition of Geikie's classic survey. First published in 1882 and continually augmented. 'Great literature on great themes' (Challinor). Pre-eminent among British geologists, Geikie remains the only one to have been appointed President of the Royal Society (1908-1912). Challinor 249. (recording the first and present editions).