FIRST EDITION. Oblong folio, title, verso blank; dedication, verso blank; list of subscribers (55 subscribers for 104 copies), one leaf, verso with list of plates; text, pages (7) to 25, 11 full-page lithographed plates after Seale, drawn on stone by M. Gauci, printed by Graf & Soret, all coloured by hand, eight unsigned coloured lithographed illustrations in the text, four hand-coloured, two tinted by hand, original cloth with contemporary half cross-grain burgundy calf and brown cloth, gilt-ruled, upper board gilt lettered, re-backed in modern cloth box. Magnificent illustrations of the extraordinary geology of St Helena. Seale was born on the island and later, in the employ of the East India Company, worked under Henry Brooke, perhaps the island’s best-known historian. In 1836 he was appointed first Colonial Secretary under the Crown but was dismissed in 1838 and died suddenly in the following year. 104 copies were subscribed, of which the East India Company dedicatees ordered 40 copies. Bookplate of 'Sir William Young, Bart' to front pastedown. Coloured plates in order: 1. View of the Island of St. Helena, bearing S.W. by W. distant 10 Miles. 2. Coast neat Thompson's Point. 3. Cavern at Thompson's Point. 4. Flagstaff & Barnhills with Sugar-loaf in the distance... 5. The walls of a vast and ancient Crater (set in text.) 6. Part of the coast near Flagstaff hill. 7. Section of Hill between Flagstaff & the Barn from N.W. to S.E. 8. Basaltic strata in the Barn. 9. Longitudinal section of the Barn representing numerous intersections of Vertical at 1600 feet above the level of the Sea. 10. Section of a part of the remarkable flat called "Churchyard"... 11. The Asses Ears / Lott's Wife (Siliceous Basaltic Columns.) 12. Lott (Basaltic Column.) 13. The Chimney (Basaltic Column.) 14. Sandy Bay.