An important work from the great Scots geologist, with coloured Geological Map frontispiece, and 736 woodcut illustrations. Published by John Murray, London (1896). Publishers’ original dark green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Book Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3 cm and Number of Pages: 635 including index Condition Firm and well bound copy. Light wear to boards’ corners and to head and foot of faded spine. Internally; in nice condition. A little name on top first title page. Stamped on top right corner of several pages. Pages are very clean, and unmarked. Inner hinges are very good. Pages are tightly held at the gutter. The text and illustrations are clean and bright (Nice Copy) (Please see pictures). “Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, FRS (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining Earth's history. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology (1830–33), which presented to a wide public audience the idea that Earth was shaped by the same natural processes still in operation today, operating at similar intensities. He was a close friend of Charles Darwin, and contributed significantly to Darwin's thinking on the processes involved in evolution. As Darwin wrote in On the Origin of Species, "He who can read Sir Charles Lyell's grand work on the Principles of Geology, which the future historian will recognise as having produced a revolution in natural science, yet does not admit how incomprehensibly vast have been the past periods of time, may at once close this volume." Lyell helped to arrange the simultaneous publication in 1858 of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace on natural selection”.