GEOLOGY. – William Perceval HUNTER. Geological Notes. Comprising a Description of the Limestone Quarries and Petrifying Spring at Pounceford, in Sussex, with Preliminary Remarks on the Wealden Rocks. Hythe: for the Author by William Tiffen, 1835. Small 4to (185 x 117mm.) Half-title, folding frontispiece illustration supplied from a newspaper, 9 plates to rear. (Stamp to frontispiece and verso title, occasional creasing, red mark to title.) Later green cloth, gilt reference to spine. Note: scarce. Hunter is the forgotten scholar of English geology. He led an itinerant life, publishing his works privately, obscurely, and sometimes abroad. He made early conjectures towards the idea of dinosaurs and was the first to suggest the Isle of Wight as a source of fossils. Provenance: Worthing Public Library (endpapers replaced, labels to pastedowns).  – And a further thirteen volumes (including Charles Williams’ ‘Pickings on the Sea-Shore; or, Cliffs, Sands, Plants, and Animals… and the Vivarium at Home’, 1857, 8vo, and ‘Report of the Commissioners Upon the Subject of Harbours of Refuge’, [extra-illustrated with 5 hand-drawn folding maps bound-in], 1845, tall 4to) (14).