Religion of Geology and its connected Sciences. By Edward Hitchcock. 1851.
Hitchcock was Professor of Theology & Geology at Amherst College, Massachusetts and famously discovered huge numbers of fossil Footprints in Connecticut. He called them 'Noah's Ravens' mistaking the Dinosaur footprints for those of a giant bird.
Hardback. Cloth bound. 408 pages. An interesting insight on the thoughts of American Theologians only a few years before Darwin's 1859 'On the Origin of Species.'
In very good condition.
Book : 19.5 x 12 x 2 cm.
