Lyell, PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY, 1990, HB, VOLUME TWO, University of Chicago Press
Hardcover book in very good, clean condition. No dust jacket as issued. Very clean condition. 330 pages.
PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY by Chares Lyell, published in 1991 by the University of Chicago Press. A facsimile of the 1830 original.
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As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or Freud, Lyell's Principles of Geology has never before been available in paperback. In the second of three volumes, Lyell (1797-1875) continues his uniformitarian argument of Volume I, the physical features of the earth are endlessly fluctuating around a stable mean, but focuses on organic rather than inorganic processes. Volume II is widely known because of its influence on Darwin, who took the book on his famous Beagle voyage and was stimulated by Lyell's extensive treatment of biological history and diversity.