Hardcover cloth 8vo, 376pp. Folding map frontis. Errata tipped-in. About Very Good with rubbing to extremities, shallow chipping at the spine head. Rear joint starting, small scuff to cover. Neatly housed in mylar; several gatherings uncut. Contents: I. Configuration; II. Atmosphere and Sea; III. Terrestrian Magnetism; IV. Land and Interior; V. Past and Future. The Moon. Various. 

An uncommon consideration of geology and space, expressed in mathematics and poetry. Reichenbach was a German politician exiled to London after the Revolutions of 1848. He became a scientific writer influenced by studying Philosophy in Paris and London. He moved to the United States from 1853-1862, operating a farm outside Philadelphia before returning to London.

"Mere space, vacuum, has no temperature... It is matter in space which imparts to matter the motion constituting temperature; be that matter atoms or stellar masses or a thermometer wandering through the infinite." (p.177)