Thomas Constable, Edinburgh, 1857.  Hard cover, 500 pages.  Red buckram with embossed boards, gilt lettering on spine.  Boards show wear along all edges, corners bumped with board exposed, spine ends worn with losses, wear and tear to cloth at spine edges; some scratches and stains.  Gift inscription on FEP; some unobtrusive markings in text; pages tanned with some age spotting, biopredation, small edge tears and small corner losses.  Binding a bit loose but all pages holding.  Illustrated throughout with black & white drawings.  The book is comprised of twelve lectures dealing with The Paleontological History of Plants; The Paleontological History of Animals; The Two Records, Mosaic and Geological; The Mosaic Vision of Creation; Geology In Its Bearings on the Two Theologies; The Noachian Deluge; The Discoverable and the Revealed; The Geology of the Anti-Geologists; and On The Less Known Fossil Floras of Scotland.