Siluria. The History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic FRemains, with a brief sketch of the distribution of gold over the Earth

First edition sturdy quarto in good half black calf over cloth boards. Titled and tooled in gilt over red to six panelled spine; a little shelf worn to edges and scuffed along spine hinges. Marbled text block edges. Very square and sound. Attractive Turkish marble endpapers very good. Text block unmarked; age toned as expected. Lacking geological map to frontispiece. c.150 woodcut illustrations. Complete set of XXXVII plates, some folding, to rear plus a General Map of Palezoic Formations to face p.475. Map and plates age spotted in part to versos and rectos, some a little moreso than others. A faint aroma of tobacco noted. 523 pp.