Denver, Colorado: Industrial Printing & Publishing Company 1905. First Edition. 124 pages. 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. Publisher's cloth gilt. Previous owner's name on title page. Bright and clean otherwise, noting browning to endpapers and offsetting from old paper laid in at copyright page. Near Fine. Cloth.
Originally..... More
[ Pittsburgh, PA ]: United States Department of the Interior 1968. [2], iv, 177 pages. 7 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Printed grey wrappers with previous owner address label on front cover. With folding chart sometimes missing from back of book. Bumped at upper spine. A sound clean copy. Very..... More
Chicago, IL: E. H. Sargent & Co. 1914. 560, xxix pages + 16 pages (ads). 8vo. Blue publisher's cloth gilt. Lightly faded spine, bright and clean internally. A sound clean copy. Very Good. Cloth.
Sargent (the publisher) was also a purveyor of supplies for the chemist and assayer, and..... More
London: Edward Arnold & Co 1927. xii, 289 pages + plates and 8 pages of ads. Publisher's blue cloth binding. Lacks the scarce dust jacket. Several nicks to top edge boards, minor foxing. Laid in is a manuscript letter with envelope, presumably in the author's hand indicating regrets for an..... More
Philadelphia: Jas. B. Rodgers Co. Printers 1873. First Edition. 607 pages + 5 regular plates + 28 woodburytype images (frontispiece of the Phillips and Wooodford Wells Tarr Farm and 28 separate woodburytype portraits of oilmen). Complete. Thick 8vo. Expertly rebound in sympathetically matched cloth with front cover and spine panels..... More
Berlin: G. Reimer 1843. 41, [1-blank], [1-druckfehler], plus one foldout color plate marked "Taf. III" (probably mis-labelled as we can only find textual references to Taf. I). Early robin egg blue paper boards with remnants of a paper label at the lower spine. Signature on front flyleaf (R Pumpelly). 2..... More
Bern: Buckdruckerei Buchler & Co. 1930. First Edition. 88 pages. Folio. Front wrapper bound in. Illustrated. Brown buckram gilt. Exlibrary USAF Geophysics Research Library (now defunct). Clean. Text in German. Very Good. Cloth.
English translation: "Vibration and Vibration Measurements with the Transportable Universal Seismograph: Dissertation thesis approved by the..... More
Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m. b H. 1931. First Separate Edition. [239]-258 pages. Small 8vo. Buckram binding with original front wrapper bound in. The offprint issue of this paper, originally published in "Gerlands Beitrage zur Geophysik", Bd. 31 (1931). Stamp of USAF Cambridge Research Center (now defunct). Otherwise clean. Very Good..... More
Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m. b H. 1931. First Separate Edition. 367-392 pages. Small 8vo. Buckram binding with original front wrapper bound in. The offprint issue of this paper, originally published in "Gerlands Beitrage zur Geophysik", Bd. 34 Koppen-Band III (1931). Stamp of USAF Cambridge Research Center (now defunct). Partial inscription..... More
Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m. b H. 1930. First Separate Edition. [1], [314]-332 pages. Small 8vo. Buckram binding with original front wrapper bound in. The offprint issue of this paper, originally published in "Gerlands Beitrage zur Geophysik", Bd. 26 (1930). Stamp of USAF Cambridge Research Center (now defunct). Partial inscription from..... More
Leipzig [but California]: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann [but The Gemmary] 1899 [but 1988]. Later printing. XIV, 397, [1] + three plates. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. A bright clean copy. Text in German. A facsimile edition, with the plates NOT collotypes. Woodcuts are clear and well reproduced as are the..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co. 1888. Later printing. 133 pages + 4 plates + 32 pages (ads). Small 8vo. Publisher's cloth gilt. Old dampstaining to rear panel. minor wear to extremities. Previous owner name and plea to return book on title page. Sound. Clean internally. Nice distributor label on..... More
Philadelphia: The Franklin Institute 1931. First Edition. [2], 820 pages. The entire volume offered. Black buckram gilt, ex-library with the usual markings (properly withdrawn). As often the case, individual issue wrappers were not bound in. Sound and clean. Good. Cloth.
Contains many interesting articles including: The diamond mines of..... More
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston 1863. x, 13-230 pages. 8vo. Publisher's cloth gilt. Previous owner name and previous institutional name (Oblate House of Studies, Battleford Saskatchewan) on endpapers. Page corners turned, otherwise a sound copy. Corners bumped/turned. A sound copy. Very Good. Cloth.
The Oblate house was closed in 1972..... More
Japan: Pan-Pacific Science Congress 1926. 30 pages. Stapled printed wraps. Tipped in at rear is a folding multi-color 13 x 10 3/8 inch map "Topographical Map of Central Kinki Environs of the Cities of Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, and Kobe". Some minor sunning, a few small stains. Some penciled notes throughout..... More
Washington, D. C. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey 1894. First Edition. Complete title: Geologic Atlas of the United States Chattanooga Folio Tennessee Library Edition, Folio 6. 4 colored plates plus one black and white plus 5 pages text. 55 x 47 cm. Ex-library with a few markings..... More
Washington, D. C. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey 1894. First Edition. Complete title: Geologic Atlas of the United States Sewanee Folio Tennessee Library Edition Folio 8. 4 colored plates plus one black plate. Inside front and rear wrappers are explanatory notes. 4 pages of text of "The..... More
Washington, D. C. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey 1894. First Edition. Complete title: Geologic Atlas of the United States Knoxville Folio Tennessee - North Carolina Folio 16 Library Edition. 4 colored plates plus one black plate. Inside front and rear wrappers are explanatory notes. 6 pages of..... More
[ no place ]: [ no publisher ] [ no date ]. [24]-49 pages. Apparently an extract from another publication (or possibly an offprint lacking original wrappers) now bound in blue buckram gilt. A clean working copy. Very Good. Cloth.
Ex-library United States Air Force Cambridge Research Center Geophysics..... More
Washington, D. C. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey 1903. First Edition. Complete title: Geologic Atlas of the United States Cranberry Folio North Carolina - Tennessee Folio No. 90 Library Edition. Stiff paper wraps, dirty wrappers with stain to front wrapper lower right corner (not affecting text). Ex-library..... More
Washington, D. C. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey 1907. First Edition. Ex-Library copy with the usual markings. Complete title: Geologic Atlas of the United States Roan Mountain Folio Tennessee - North Carolina No. 151. Stiff paper wraps, dirty with crease to front wrapper lower right corner and..... More
London: Trubner & Co 1870. 596 pages. Red half leather over paper covered boards. 25 plates in rear (some colored), 3 portraits of Geologists, and woodcuts in the text. Fore edges of boards bumped. Corners bumped and worn. Leather spine still bright and clean, noting rubbing with minor losses to..... More
Oxford, New York, Beijing, Frankfurt, ... Pergamon Press 1988. First Edition. viii, 153 pages. Publisher's hardcover. Minor rubbing to the binding, otherwise a clean working copy. Near Fine. Hard Cover. More
