[Rarebooks] fa: ADAM SEDGWICK on TRAP DYKES, TRAP ROCKS, GEOLOGY OF HIGH TEESDALE - 1822 - w/ PLATES

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other antiquarian scientific works, auction ending Sunday, September 15. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

The Rev. Adam Sedgwick: On the Phenomena connected with some Trap Dykes in Yorkshire and Durham. 1822. [BOUND WITH] On the Association of Trap Rocks with the Mountain Limestone Formation in High Teesdale, &c. 1824. [Cambridge: 1823-25]. Two separate papers extracted from broken volumes of the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, bound in recent olive french wraps; 4to (28 x 22 cm); p. 21-44; 139-195 (82 pages total); with 5 leaves of plates (complete). Light foxing on two of the plates, rather heavier on two others; light spotting to four or five text leaves; otherwise clean and sound and firmly bound in fresh modern wraps.

Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge, was one of the "great figures in what has been called the Heroic Age of geology... In 1822 he carried out fieldwork unraveling the complex geology of the Lakes District of northern England, armed with the new discoveries and techniques of William Smith. (He met and befriended the poet William Wordsworth on this expedition, and also met the poet Robert Southey and the chemist John Dalton.) His lectures at Cambridge were immensely popular; he was a spellbinding lecturer, and — breaking with the traditions of his time -- his lectures were open to women, whom Sedgwick thought could make great contributions to natural history..." (University of California Museum of Paleontology website).