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Author: Buckland, William
Title: Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology
Place Published: London
Publisher:William Pickering
Date Published: 1836
Description:

2 vols. xvi, 599, [1]; vii, [1], 128 pp. With numerous lithographed or engraved plates, many double-page or folding including a hand-colored panorama. 21.8x13 cm (8½x5¼"), period half-calf with marbled boards, raised bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt; all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. First Edition.

Significant work on geologic history, issued as Treatise VI of "The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation." This series contained works of greater relevance than the title may imply in this modern age, being attempts to rectify the increasingly materialistic discoveries of science with the theological concept of a universal god.

The present work has an excellent series of fossil and geological plates, and a marvelous hand-colored panorama of an ideal section of a portion of the Earth's crust, showing the various strata, and the age of deposits, and the flora and fauna whose fossils appear in the different strata. If not a blow to creationism, at least a query. With the bookplates of John Sinkankas.

Slight shelf wear to calf and boards; hinges tender but bindings solid, foxing and faint age-toning to plates, some marginal tape repairs and ink notations; very good.