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Luc(J.A.de)Lettres..sur l'Histoire de la Terre

Luc (Jean André de) Lettres Physiques et Morales sur l'Histoire de la Terre et de l'Homme,

adressees a Reine de la Grande Bretagne, 5 vol., first expanded French edition, half-titles, light foxing at beginning and ends, handsome contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco labels, yellow edges, slight fading to spines, 8vo, The Hague and Paris, 1779-80.

***James Watt's copy, from his library at Heathfield, although no sign of provenance. Hutton was influenced by this work, particularly by de Luc's belief that the Alpine strata were of marine origin. De Luc and Hutton both visited the Lunar Society, of which James Watt was a prominent member, and the former travelled around Stafforshire on a geological survey..