Author(s): Tho. Robinson

Natural History | Antiquarian/Classics/Rare

An Essay Towards A Natural History Of Westmorland And Cumberland. Wherein An Account Is Given Of Their Several Mineral And Surface Productions, With Some Directions How To Discover Minerals By The External And Adjacent Strata And Upper Covers, &C. To Which Is Annexed, A Vindication Of The Philosophical And Theological Paraphrase Of The Mosaick System Of The Creation, &C.

Pp, (16), 95; (1) 118, [2 booklist].  Contemporary full calf, neatly rebacked.  Robinson (d 1719) graduated from Cambridge in 1668 and was appointed rector of Ousby, Cumberland in 1672. He established a mining enterprise in 1693 near Keswick with the intention of mining copper and silver. By 1703, the enterprise failed and because of considerable debts, Robinson had to take refuge in London. The book is divided into two parts. The first describes the geology and mineralogy of Westmorland and Cumberland and the second the author's theory of the earth. A very good copy with the two works in one volume, rarely found outside institutional libraries.