GEOLOGY. - John WHITEHURST. An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth; deduced from Facts and the Laws of Nature. London: W. Bent, second edition, 4to (273 x 208mm.) Half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 7 engraved plates, including 5 double-paged, 85 blank leaves bound to rear. (Offsetting to title, browning.) Contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (rebacked with part of original spine laid-down, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: George Chetwynd (armorial bookplate to the front pastedown, embossed stamp to title). - And a further twenty-four volumes (including John Ray's 'Three Physico-Theological Discourses', 1721, 8vo). Provenance: by descent, from the estate of Rendel Williams (25).