The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick [Two Volume Set]

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1890. Very Good. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1890. First Edition. Two volumes; octavos (23cm); publisher's blind-ruled brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines, black glazed endpapers; xiii,[1],539; vii,[1],640pp.; portrait frontispieces, plates throughout, including maps (one in color), a folding chart, and portraits and views. Cloth a bit rubbed at margins with brief chipping at spine ends, corners bumped, scattered foxing, 20th century ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to both front pastedowns; a Very Good, bright and sound set of this biography of British geologist and Anglican priest Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873).