Prestwich, Joseph — The Ground beneath Us, its Geological Phases and Changes: Being three Lectures on the Geology of Clapham, and the Neighbourhood of London generally, delivered to the members of the Clapham Athenaeum, Clapham Common, on 1st May, 1854, and 7th and 21st Apri

John van Voorst London iv, 79, 2 plates (1 hand-col), 59 text figs. . PB. 8vo (223x148mm), bound in recent quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, spine faded. Ex-lib.: from an institutional library with single in stamp to endpaper, shelf mark to spine. Tape reinforcemnt to inner margin of last page of Preface, and final page of text.. First edition. Scarce. The two lithographed plates include 'Outline Geological Map of the Neighbourhood of London' (hand coloured) and 'Section of the Drift and London Tertiary Strata at Clapham'. Errata slip tipped in before Preface..