Greenough, George Bellas

Found at Christies, London
Travel, Science and Natural History, Lot 16
6. Apr - 6. Apr 2011
Estimate: 400 - 600 GBP
Price realised: 813 GBP
GREENOUGH, George Bellas (1778-1855). A critical examination of the first principles of geology. London: Longman, etc., 1819. 8° (209 x 128mm). (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary half calf (rebacked, extremities lightly rubbed, the corners heavily).
FIRST EDITION. 'These essays were a challenge to those who saw uniformity and regularity in the strata, the skeptical Greenough quoting exceptions for every such assumption ...This publication, although not well received at the time, was based on wide reading and observation and can be used today as a source book' (DSB).

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