On Some Properties of the Earth

London: Wertheimer, Lea & Co., 1880. Hardcover cloth 8vo, 376pp. Folding map frontis. Errata tipped-in. Generally VG+ but for some rubbing/fraying at the spine and chipping at the spine ends. A technical and speculative survey of the Earth's geologic state: "Mere space, vacuum, has no temperature... It is matter in space which imparts to matter the motion constituting temperature; be that matter atoms or stellar masses or a thermometer wandering through the infinite." (p.177)