Testimony of the Rocks

Hugh Miller

Published by Gould and Lincoln, 1857

About this Item

The Testimony of the Rocks, or, Geology in its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed; by Hugh Miller, author of The old Red Sandstone Footprints of the Creator , etc., etc.; with Memorials of the Death and Character of the Author. Thou Shalt be in League with the Stones of the Field. Job. Boston; Gould and Lincoln, 59 Washington Street; New York: Sheldon, Blakeman & Co.; Cincinnati: George S. Blanchard; 1857. Hugh Miller (1802 1856) was a self-taught Scottish geologist and writer, folklorist and an Evangelical Christian. Miller committed suicide, shooting himself in the chest with a revolver in his house on Tower Street, Portobello, on the night of 23/24 December 1856. That night he had finished checking printers' proofs for his book, this book, on Scottish fossil plants and vertebrates, The Testimony of the Rocks . Miller's death was very tragic, and his life brief, but he left a heritage of new discoveries of several Silurian sea scorpions (the eurypterid genus Hughmilleria was named in his honour), and many Devonian fishes, including several placoderms described in his popular books. Though he had no academic credentials, he is today considered one of Scotland's premier palaeontologists. This book, 502 pages, is in very good condition. The covers of the book are blind stamped with the publisher s initials. The book has a number of black and white illustrations. The book is in very good condition with wear at the top and bottom of the spine and a slight slant in the book as it s faults. The book has a previous owner s marks on the first free endpaper and there is a booksellers ticket pasted on the inside of the cover Middleton & Dawson, Booksellers, Stationers &c., &c., Mountain Hill, Quebec. An unusual book in that it has 2 pages of advertisements in the front of the book as well as some 15 pages at the end of the text. A very sound and attractive copy of an important book in this genre and on this important but tragic author.

Seller Inventory # 1956b

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Testimony of the Rocks
• Publisher: Gould and Lincoln
• Publication Date: 1857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good