Natural History, Geology - Buckland (The Rev. William, D.D.)...

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Natural History, Geology - Buckland (The Rev. William, D.D.), The Bridgewater Treatises: VI, Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with reference to Natural Theology, two-volume set, first edition, London: William Pickering, 1836, pp: xvi, 599, [1] (errata); vii, [1] (blank), 110, 69 geological and paleontological lithograph plates (the first of which is printed over two sheets of six-folds and hand-coloured), 111-128 (index), early 20th century calf, marbled edges, 8vo, (1); Prestwich (Joseph), On Certain Phenomena/Belonging to the Close of the Last Geological Period and on their Bearing upon the Tradition of the Flood, author's presentation copy, first and only edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1895, half-title inscribed in ink MS: With the author's regards, original cloth, 8vo, (1); Curwen (E. Cecil, editor), The Journal of Gideon Mantell, Surgeon and Geologist, 1818-1852, Oxford University Press: 1940, original cloth, 8vo, (1); etc., [4]

Provenance: 1st: Vernon Brelsford, ink MS ownership inscription to each title-page; 2nd: Edith Lyttelton Gell (1860-1944), her pictorial-armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.