MANTELL, Gideon. The Wonders of Geology. London: Relfe and Fletcher, 1838. 2 vols., second thousand, 8vo (159 x 101mm.) Mezzotint frontispiece after John Martin, 6 colour lithographed plates, wood-engraved illustrations in the text. (Lacking half-title to vol. 1, toning, occasional light spotting, ink gift inscription to front pastedown, dated 1948.) Contemporary calf (some loss to lettering pieces, extremities rubbed). – And a further eight volumes (including Gideon Mantell’s ‘Geological Excursions Round the Isle of Wight’, 1847, 8vo, and William Phillips’ ‘Outlines of Mineralogy and Geology’, third edition, 1818, 12mo, and William Humble’s ‘Dictionary of Geology and Mineralogy’, 1840, 4to, and Hugh Miller’s ‘The Testimony of the Rocks’, 1872, 8vo) (9).