Miller, Hugh. Edinburgh and its Neighbourhood, Geological and Historical; with the Geology of the Bass Rock. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1870. Fourth Edition. [11570]
Terracotta publishers' cloth, bordered in black, gilt spine titles & vignette on front board, slight edge-wear, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Frontispiece view of Edinburgh; viii, 344 clean pp. Very good. Hardcover.
The Edinburgh title was first published posthumously and edited by the author's wife, Lydia Miller; the Geology of the Bass Rock was first published in 1847.
Hugh Miller (1802-1856), Scottish naturalist, geologist, Free Churchman, and editor. “Miller was especially concerned to uphold by scientific methods the idea of God as Creator at a time when evolutionary views such as those put forward by Robert Chambers in the anonymous Vestiges of Creation were gaining ground.” – Dictionary of Scottish Church History & Theology.
Miller published Testimony of the Rocks as a response to Darwinism. Today he is considered to be one of Scotland's most influential Victorian paleontologists who not only made many new discoveries but was able to communicate the science to the average reader.
