[BURNET, THOMAS]. The Theory of the Earth: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth...the First Two Books... London: R. Norton for Walter Kettilby, 1684. Volume I (of 2) only. Engraved frontispiece, 2 double-page hemispheric engraved maps, and numerous engraved text diagrams. Folio, old calf, worn, joints repaired; front pastedown and endpaper renewed (possibly reset in binding), some internal tears (along plate margin) crossing a few letters on H4. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Burnet's Tellus theoria sacra libridi duo priores (London, 1681). The second volume was published in 1690. Wing B5950; Honeyman I, 556; Norman 376.