PRESENTED BY EDINBURGH ARCHITECT CHARLES KINNEAR Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

Original maroon pebbled cloth, spines lettered in gilt and relaid with some loss to original cloth showing through. Original yellow coated endpapers with Kinnear’s inscriptions and Pottie’s ‘JP’ monogram top left. A slight whiff of tobacco hangs around these volumes.

Issued as Treatise VI of the Bridgewater Treatises, these are lavishly produced books with 90 lithographed plates, many showing fossils, several folding, and a hand-coloured panorama of an ideal section of a portion of the Earth's crust, showing the various strata, and the age of deposits, as well as the flora and fauna whose fossils appear in the different strata.

Charles Kinnear (1830-1894) was one half of Peddie and Kinnear which specialised in Scots Baronial, notably Cockburn Street in Edinburgh. Kinloch house where he inscribed these copies was his birthplace; he lived at 125 Princes Street for most his early life, studied at Edinburgh University and continued at 12 Grosvenor Crescent in Edinburgh’s West End while designing dozens of buildings across Scotland. Kinnear was also a pioneering photographer of Edinburgh.