LYELL. PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY, 1872, 11TH EDITION, 2 VOLS, INSCRIBED TO HIS NEPHEW LEONARD

8vo, 2 volumes, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS NEPHEW ("Leonard Lyell | from his affectionate uncle | the author") on front endpaper of volume 1, maps, plans and woodcuts, a few pencil and ink corrections and marginal markings (? some possibly authorial), contemporary calf gilt, spines in six compartments, morocco labels, red speckled edges

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Leonard (later 1st Baron) Lyell (1850--1926) was the son of the geologist's sister-in-law Katharine Murray Lyell (née Horner, also a geologist), who was both sister to his wife Elizabeth, and wife to his brother Colonel Henry Lyell. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland from 1885 to 1900 and was commissioned a Deputy Lieutenant for Forfarshire in December 1901. Charles Lyell clearly thought highly of his nephew, for he bequeathed Kinnordy House to him upon his death in 1875 (Charles and Elizabeth's marriage had been childless).