Buckland, William. (1836). Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology. 2 volumes, 1^st edition. London: Wm. Pickering, vol 1, xvi + 600pp, vol 2, vii + 128pp + 87* plates. Hardback, early brown embossed leather binding with gilt decoration to spine and cover and gilt-lettering to dark leather spine labels . Moderate shelf wear, binding sound. Marbled page edges. Book-seller pencil notes on front free endpaper of vol 1. Text clean. Some plates are foxed but most other plates are clean. Photographs show worst and least examples. Fold-out schematic section of the earth’s crust, 22 x 121 cm, hand-coloured, bright, slightly foxed and creased where folds have been refolded several times. In good to very good condition.

*Plate numbers repeat, so that while there are 69 plates as numbered, there are 87 physical plates.