undertaken for the purpose of examining the state of the arts, the sciences, natural history and manners in Great Britain:
containing mineralogical descriptions of the country round Newcastle; of the mountains of Derbyshire; of the environs of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, and St.Andrews; of Inverary, and other parts of Argyleshire; and of the Cave of Fingal.
translated from the French of B. Faujas Saint-Fond.....
London, printed for James Ridgway, 1799.
2 volumes. 8vo. ppviii,iii,361. viii 352. 7 engraved plates (the six listed plus 'Section of the Strata to the Long Main Coal at St.Anthon's colliery') half-title present in volume one; not called for in volume 2.
light off-set from the plates, otherwise good clean condition in a contemporary quarter calf binding, with 'Blackness' gilt stamp to the foot of the spines.
from the library of Blackness House, near Dundee, with Alexander Gibson Hunter's name to the title-page and a single manuscript sheet tipped in before the title-page with remarks on the work, possibly in Hunter's hand.
