Geology.- Smith (William) Stratigraphical System of Organized Fossils, with Reference to the Specimens of the Original Geological Collection in the British Museum, part 1 [all published], first edition, 2 tables with hand-colouring, the first folding and second double-page, title with tiny repaired tear to fore-margin, both tables mounted on stubs, the first with tape reinforcements to folds to verso and light offsetting, D4 lower blank corner repaired, some spotting, lower hinge cracked, 20th century red half calf, rebacked, original backstrip once laid down but now majority lacking, rubbed, extremities worn in places, original printed wrappers bound in (laid down and repaired), t.e.g., others uncut, 4to, for E. Williams, 1817.*** A detailed description of the fossils found in different geological strata in England. To find a copy complete with both Tables is especially rare. Smith, known as the 'Father of English Geology', had sold his own fossil collection to the British Museum a year earlier.