The Geology and Extinct Volcanos of Central France. Second Edition enlarged and improved.

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London: John Murray 1858. 8vo. Textured cloth (corners bumped). Spine with gilt (faded; top and bottom edges chipped). (xviii 258pp.). With b/w fold. frontisp. 8 fold. illusts. 1 of which is colour 2 fold. maps 7 b/w illusts. and text-illusts. Inscription on title-page. Fine. NOTE: George Julius Poulett Scrope was an English geologist whose studies on volcanos deposed the theory that all of the world's rocks formed by sedimentation from the oceans. Central France has around 80 dormant volcanoes that are part of the Chaine des Puys in the Auvergne region.