Principles Geology by Charles Lyell, First Edition (12 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena. Written with clarity and a dazzling intellectual passion, it is both a seminal work of modern geology and a compelling precursor to Darwinism, exploring the evidence for radical changes in climate and geography across the ages and speculating on the progressive development of life. A profound influence on Darwin, Principles of Geology also captured the imagination of contemporaries such as Melville, Emerson, Tennyson and George Eliot, transforming science with its depiction of the powerful forces that shape the natural world. Influencing Darwin, Tennyson and Dickens among others, Lyell's "Principles" was an ambitious attempt to forge links between observable causes - volcanoes, earthquakes, rivers, tides and storms - and the current state of the earth. This edition has an introduction by Jim Secord. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tiny Signature from Previous Owner on F.E.P.

Condition: New. Num Pages: 586 pages, 2 plates, 33 line drawings. BIC Classification: RBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 707. . 1990. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Erste Ausgabe. xv, 511 p., engraved frontispiece (bound in after p. 448!), folded map, 1 plate, 33 text illustrations; xii, 330 p., hand coloured aquatint frontispiece, folding hand coloured map, 9 text illustrations; xxxi, 398, 109 p. appendices and index, hand coloured aquatint frontispiece, hand coloured map, 4 engraved plates, 88 text illustrations. Neuere Leinenbände. Milestones of Science 140: This work "established geology as a science." Honeyman Collection 2079. Also Lyell's Principles were "written on the assumption that geological phenomena could be explained completely in terms of natural and knowable causes" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography VIII, 570). "Darwin, who took this work with him on the Beagle, ackknowledged his debt to it" Heralds of Science 96). Each volume with a small old stamped-in name and handwritten signature, otherwise an unusual fresh, clean and complete copy, though unfortunately newly rebound. Jeweils mit kleinem altem Namensstempel und handschriftlicher Inventurnummer, sonst ungewöhnlich frisches, sauberes und vollständiges, wenn auch leider nachgebundenes Exemplar.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed to former owners by the author on end-papers, third volume inscribed to M. Deshayes who did the tables of Tertiary fossils for Lyell. Vols 1 & 2 have former owner's bookplate on front fixed end-paper, HARDBACKS, original paper boards with paper spine labels. Vol 2 lacking spine, parts of spines for Vols 1 & 3 missing. Vol 1. frontispiece, pages: xv, 511, 12 & [iv] - publisher's adverts. (uncut but opened), plates: 2 (1 folding), 33 woodcuts, light spotting to frontispiece, verso and one or two on title-page, volume is divided at page 320, covers rubbed at corners. Vol 2. coloured frontispiece (slight offsetting to title-page), pages: xii, 330, (uncut but opened), plates: 1 coloured folding map, 9 woodcuts, front board and frontispiece partially detached. Vol 3. coloured frontispiece, pages: xxxi, [i], 398, appendix 159, glossary 61-83, index 85-109 (uncut but opened), publisher's adverts. 11, plates: 3 with tissue guards some offsetting to tissue guard and around some of the illustrations, 93 woodcuts, front board detached, covers rubbed at corners, some light spotting to end-papers and half-title.

Condition: Good. Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. 1st American edition, from the 5th London ed. Volume 2. Sm 4to. 553pp. Illus., plates, some folding, some color, maps. Good book. In original publisher's binding. Spine sunned. Owner's name embossed on front free endpage. Some foxing. (geology) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to hardcover volume in brown cloth. Wear to spine and some splitting to the spine cloth. Boards nice and tight some wear to edges and a stain on front board. End paper good with pencil names. 553 pages with scattered foxing. 2 foldout plates good and one color plate with other plates.1st American edition.

leather. Condition: Very Good. Ninth Edition. Hardcover fully bound in soft tan leather with marbled page block and marbled endpapers. Revised ninth edition with maps, plates and woodcuts. Spine piece is quite worn and has come away from the binding. Board corners and edges also worn. Light foxing to a few internal pages, signatures of two previous owner's to FEP. Internal contents remain in very good condition, text, fold-outs and illustrations are clean and clear. AD. Used.

SECOND & FIRST EDITIONS, 3 volumes, complete set, 1832-33, Volumes 1 & 2 second editions and Volume 3 first edition. 8vo, approximately 220 x 140 mm, 8½ x 5½ inches, engraved frontispiece to Volume 1, Volumes 2 and 3 have hand coloured aquatint frontispieces, 3 maps, 2 folding, 2 in colour, 4 engraved plates of fossil shells, 1 engraved plate with 2 images, a view and a map, plus 136 illustrations in the text. VOLUME 1: xvi, [1] - 586, pale browning offset from frontispiece to title page, pale browning to both engraved plates with offset to facing pages, folding map foxed, text clean. VOLUME 2: xii, [1] - 338, endpapers foxed front and rear, offset to title page from frontispiece, offset from map to facing page, occasional pale foxing mostly to top margins, minor foxing to front endpapers and heavy foxing on rear endpapers, browning to the 4 engraved plates and offset to facing errata page, pale offset to facing coloured map. VOLUME 3: xxxi, [1] -398 plus 110 pages of Appendix, Glossary and Index and 1 page of adverts, minor foxing to front endpapers and heavy foxing on rear endpapers, browning to 4 engraved plates and offset to facing errata page and pale offset to facing coloured map, 2 small pale stains affecting top corners of pages 96 and 97. Bound in half green calf, over green boards, 2 wine coloured gilt lettered labels to spines, gilt decoration and gilt date to spines, marbled endpapers, gilt top edges and other edges marbled, no half-titles present. Bindings rubbed and scuffed with colouring applied to scuffs and hinges, slight loss of gilt decoration to spine, otherwise a very good tight clean set. See: Printing and the Mind of Man, page 208, Chapter on The Theory of Evolution, No. 344; Hook and Norman, The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine, Volume 1, pages 509 and 510, No. 1398; Dibner Library, Heralds of Science, revised edition, page 46, No.96; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has long entry; "This work has been called the most important scientific book ever. A stunning claim, but certainly Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, published in 1830, shook prevailing views of how Earth had been formed. His book was an attack on the common belief among geologists and other Christians that unique catastrophes or supernatural events -- such as Noah's flood -- shaped Earth's surface. Lyell argued that the formation of Earth's crust took place through countless smaller changes occurring over long periods of time, all according to known natural laws. His proposal was that the forces shaping the planet have operated continuously throughout its history. He also wrongly assumed that these causes must have acted only with the same intensities now observed, which would rule out asteroid impacts and the like. Darwin read Lyell's landmark text while on the Voyage of the Beagle, and was much inspired by it. His own experiences during the voyage backed up Lyell's theories of how the shifting crust of the Earth was one of these long-acting, gradual, shaping forces." Heavy books which may need extra postage costs. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First edition. 2 volumes 8vo. Illustrated. Engraved frontispieces, the frontispiece of volume two hand-colored. Half leather, spines in six compartments with raised bands, gilt. The frontispiece of volume one is foxed else this is a near fine set. In spite of the note on volume one that this is in two volumes, a third volume was later issued in 1833, not here present. .