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18591263921859 Paris, Librairie Victor Masson - MDCCCLIX (1859) - Complet en 2 volumes in-4, reliure demi-basin, plats percalines, dos à nerfs portant titre, auteur, fleurons et tomaison en doré, tranches mouchetées - 508 + 327 pages - Avec 3707 figures dans le tome I et 1236 dans le tome II, dans le texte et certaines en couleurs
QJZ-0Grand in 4° (32 × 24 cm) ; 27 pp., 8 pl.; articles extraits du Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 2e série, vol. 1, article 12 : 139-147, pl. 18-21; article 14 : 191-206, pl. 25-27 et article 25 : 299-300, pl. 42. Ensemble bien complet avec un total de 8 planches gravées. Reliure à coin en cuir et plats marbrés, titre doré (reliure moderne); dernière ligne du texte de la légende au pied de la dernière planche (pl. 42) coupée mais la légende est néanmoins complète sur la page de texte en regard. - Large in 4°; 27 pp., 8 pl.; extraxted from du Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 2th series, vol. 1, article 12: 139-147, pl. 18-21; article 14: 191-206, pl. 25-27, and article 25: 299-300, pl. 42. Complete with 8 plates. Three-quarter leather binding with marbeld paper, gold tooled title on spince (professional recent binding); the last line of the caption at the foot of the last plate (pl. 42) cut by the binder knife, however the same caption is present and complete on the opposite text page.
31481Lille, imp. Douriez-Bataille / Houillères du Bassin du Nord et Pas-de-Calais, Etudes géologiques pour l'atlas de topographie souterraine publiée par le Service Géologique des H. B. N. P. C., 1956 - 2 volumes in-4 brochés - Vol. 1 : 568 pages, 67 figures et 6 tableaux in texte - Vol. 2 : 86 planches légendées - Très bon état
177946404110Montpellier, Jean Martel Aîné, 1779 ; in-4, broché, sans couverture. 148 pp., 1 planche dépliante hors-texte.1) FAUGÈRES (M. L. H. P. baron de). Discours prononcé à l’Assemblée Publique de la Société Royale des Sciences, tenue pour la première fois dans l’Hôtel de cette Société les 25 Novembre 1778, en présence des États de la Province. (11 pp.)2) JOUBERT. Mémoire sur les pépinières et les transplantations des oliviers. (24 pp.)3) MOURGUE. Observation sur la direction et les effets de quelques coups de tonnerre, suivie de quelques vues sur la formation de la foudre. (16 pp.)4) CUSSON. Remarques sur la cataracte. (41 pp.)5) VIGAROUS. Mémoire sur les Hernies entéroceles étranglées, et sur la connoissance des signes qui indiquent le temps où on peut en faire l’opération avec succès. (21 pp.)6) BRUGUIÈRES. Mémoire sur l’espèce de fossile nommé communément cornes d’Ammon. (10 pp.)7) KIESMANN (Charles-Friderich). Mémoire qui a remporté, au Jugement de la Société Royale des Sciences, le prix proposé par les Etats de Languedoc sur ces deux questions : 1° Pourquoi la même mine travaillée avec de la houille donne un fer de qualité inférieure à celui qui est travaillé avec du charbon de bois. 2° Quels sont les moyens d’approprier le charbon de fer aux minéraux ferrugineus... pour en tirer un fer propre à tous usages... (20 pp. et une planche dépliante.
ORD-4311Ouvrage faisant suite aux enchaînements du monde animal dans les temps géologiques.. Avec 204 gravures dans le texte. Paris. Masson. 1896. Edition originale. In-8 (162 x 244mm) dos chagrin brun à 4 nerfs, pièce d'auteur maroquin rouge, plats et gardes marbrés, 2ff., 230, (1) pages. Dos lgt abîmé mais bon exemplaire, exempt de rousseurs et solidement relié de cet ouvrage fondamental. Peu courant.
Paris, Ch. Reinwald - Wiesbade, chez Kreidel & Niedner, 1858, in-8, legatura di poco successiva in mezza tela verde, titolo oro al dorso, pp. LXIII. (1), 490. Manca l'Atlante (con 45 tavv. litografiche) a corredo dell'opera del geologo e zoologo svizzero, noto per gli studi di archeologia preistorica. Invio autografo dell'autore al marchese Carlo Strozzi, grande appassionato di paleontologia e collezionista di fossili; la sua raccolta di 6500 reperti è oggi visibile nella sala a lui dedicata nel Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze.
ORD-5108Tome deuxième. Lyon. H. Georg. 1879 (1878 sur le titre). Très grand in-4 (280 x 370mm) cartonnage imprimé de l'éditeur, 315 pages, 20 planches (planche 16 bis) lithographiées en noir et blanc, dont 18 sur les mastodontes et 2 sur les coquillages soit 46 dessins. Couverture un peu abîmée, des rousseurs sur le texte, papier bruni pour la planche 1, les autres en très bon état.
ORD-5110Tome onzième. Lyon. H. Georg. 1912. Très grand in-4 (280 x 370mm), broché, couverture imprimée, portrait de Lortet en frontispice (fortes rousseurs), 31 pages (vie et travaux de Lortet), 92 pages (dessins dans le texte) et 9 planches litho hors texte dont 2 à double page, sur les Rhinocidés, par Roman, 194 pages et 6 planches litho hors texte de mollusques soit 293 coquilles représentées. Petits accrocs à la couverture sinon bon exemplaire.
c3698Paris, Masson, 1882 ; in-4° broché, couverture rempliée de papier parcheminé beige imprimée en noir . Illustré de 6 figures dans le texte en noir et de 10 belles planches hors texte en 2 tons , lithographies de Leuba, chaque planche est protégée d'une serpente, petit manque de papier en bordure et au dos de la couverture, une serpente jaunie sinon intérieur en très bon état, à toutes marges.
199313386Morgantown WV: Appalachian Oil and Natural Gas Research Consortium The 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 11.00 x 8.40 x 0.70 inches. Book is in Very Good condition. The covers are in great shape with light shelf wear and superficial creases. The binding is square and tight. An organization stamp is marked out on the title page. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. Impressed seal on page 127. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. An electronic tracking number issued free of charge. Appalachian Oil and Natural Gas Research Consortium, The hardcover
31477Lille, imp. Douriez-Bataille / Houillères du Bassin du Nord et Pas-de-Calais, Etude géologiques pour l'atlas de topgraphie souterraine publiée par le Service Géologique des H. B. N. P. C., 1953 - 2 volumes in-4 brochés - Vol. 1 : 269 pages, 43 figures in texte - Vol. 2 : 78 planches légendées - Dédicace autographe de l'auteur sur page de garde - Très bon état
213082 Grosvenor Place Brixton. 5 May 1852. A good letter breathing enthusiasm for his field of study. 3pp 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition lightly aged. Folded twice. He begins by stating that he will not be calling at the Museum that week but writes to 'drop you a line to say that I have received a very long letter from Mr Suett full of details regarding Ilrigocephalus etc and in which he mentions that he can drown you with notes on Rudists'. He also refers to 'a good paper by V. Hauren on the Structure etc of Caprina Partschi' 'a synonym of Cap. Paradoxa Matheron'. He announces: 'I leave positively for Belgium among the first days of next week but will call on you o Monday at the Museum and bring with me the Calceoles and the descriptions of the new Terebratula of Carney in case you should wish to take a note or two from them to insert into Mr. Grays Catalogue as I will not be in London again before the beginning or end of the first week of June.' He hopes on his return 'to be able to bring all the materials to finish your notes for the part on Brachiopods in your interesting little Manual'. 2 Grosvenor Place, Brixton. 5 May 1852. unknown
1802QJZ-19A Paris, chez J.-J. Fuchs, in 4° (25,2 × 19,8 cm); 480 pp., 5 planches (dont 3 sont dépliantes), 1 tableau dépliant; volume complet de cette importante revue scientifique française créée dans les années 1770 par François Rozier et reprise par Jean-Claude Delamétherie en 1785. Reliure plein veau, dos à 5 nerfs portant titres et tomaisons dorés, pièces de titre en maroquin bordeaux, c;aissons à fleurons et feuillages dorés aux entre-nerfs, tranches rouges, gardes marbrées (reliure d’époque). Petit manque de cuir au pied du dos, quelques rousseurs éparses, quelques pâles tâches d'humidité sur quelques feuillets, bon état pour le reste.
Pages 197-236. Features: Nice colour ad inside front cover for Cussons' Imperial Leather toilet soap features lady with Chinese fan - sixth of a series; Nice one-page Jaguar ad with car in foreground, palm trees in background; One page Ford car ad features the Popular, New Anglia, New Prefect, Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac; Photo of Lieutenant J.R.F. Overbury and the Royal Navy Hawker Sea Hawk FB3 fighter he used to set a new speed record from London to Amsterdam; Two pages of coverage of the Anglo-Egyptian agreement on the withdrawal of British troops from the Suez Canal Zone, including one-page map; Memorial to the dead of El Alamein; Rotterdam's last working windmill, the Mill De Noord, on fire; Photo of Stockholm Stadium on fire; One-page photo of the opening day of the meeting at Goodwood overlooking crowded Trundle Hill, showing the Queen in the enclosure; One page of photos of some of the fifty warships which participated in N.A.T.O. Mediterranean exercise "Medflex B"; One-page photo of Vice-Admiral Reid taking the Bosun's Chair to H.M.S. Bermuda, during the Allied review off Malta; One-page photo of helicopter delivering mail to a minesweeper during exercise "Haul"; British and American submarine "Attack Teachers"; Illustrations of H.M.S. Kingfisher, the Royal Navy's new submarine rescue ship, using the new rescue bell technique; Two illustrated pages of the latest methods of escape from a sunken submarine; Five photos of the Kemano-Kitimat aluminum project in British Columbia; Two pages of photos and illustrations compare Whitehorse and Dawson City now and during their boom times; Photos of amazing fossil in the Kansas chalk beds of Gove County, Kansas shows six-foot fish lying in the stomach of a 14-ft fish; Photos of nineteen personalities of the week include Mrs. Borge Rohde and Sir F. Metcalfe; Photos looking into the mouth of volcano on New Zealand's Mt. Ngauruhoe; 25-lb lobster caught by J. Olson of New Bedford, MA; 6-year-old Valerie Parrish arrives in Hong Kong after her British Skymaster was shot down by communist Chinese fighter aircraft off Hainan Island; One-page photo fo water sports aboard the S.S. Chusan in the Mediterranean; Nice colour-photo ad for Blackwood Hodge inside back cover shows Euclid tractor and scraper at work; Nice colour ad for Good Year on back cover displays the coat-of-arms of the Borough of Wimbledon; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 1-36. Features: Colour ad inside front cover for the Reed Paper Group shows new television being unpacked for family; Dr. Alain Bombard and his solo trans-Atlantic raft trip; Nice photo of Queen reading Christmas greetings by radio; Photos of aircraft including a Douglas Skystreak (D-558-2) in flight, a modified B-50 elevated with Bell X-2 below waiting to be mounted, and a Handley Page H.P. 80; Photo of mangled tail-fin of a superfortress shot-up in the Korean war, but still managed to get the crew 1,400 miles back to base; Death of the Queen Mother of Denmark, Alexandrine; Photos of personalities of the week, including Sir Robert Mansergh and the recently deceased author Miss Marjorie Bowen; Two pages of photos of the Champollion boat disaster off Beirut - rescuers, rescued and shore vigil; Photos of the new liner 'City of Port Elizabeth'; Photos of Nile River dam construction plus one-page map of the river and the scheme to increase the cultivated area of Egypt; Civil defense training with relief landscape models; Photo of remains of Douglas C.124 Globemaster which crashed near Moses Lake, USA killing 86; Photos of Mau Mau adherents being identified in Keyna; Centerfold illustration of the Vickers Valiant; Excavations are throwing light on the Phrygians and Hittites of ancient Gordion - article with many photos; Details of 1938 'Fossil Fish', the Latimeria Chalumnae - now a second specimen has been caught; Photo of Dr. Hass holding a Halavi, or guitar fish, which he caught bare-handed; Photo of dozens of cars which belonged to Egypt's ex-King Farouk; and more. Four-inch opening to bottom of advertorial coverfold, otherwise moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Hoover Dam - purposes, plans, and progress of construction; Editorials - Dr. George K. Burgess and Dr. George F. Kunz - are there White Indians? - back to earth - construction - wages; Flying in the beginning - early experiments with man-carrying kites and gliders; Peregrinations of a freight car - as a railroad freight car travels here and there over the country, records are made of its movements in minute detail; New Planetary discoveries - the discovery of minor planets has fairly been put on a basis of mass production; The muscular power of insects - the muscles of insects give them much greater power proportionately than other animals possess; A masterpiece of Museum-craft - the largest existing monument of Greek sculpture has been re-erected in a museum in Berlin; Radio in the forest service - new transmitter-receivers, one weighing only 10 pounds, are to be tested this year; Solo man - a fossil skull - a new find of great importance; new notes on ancient man - recent discoveries throw new light on man's antiquity; Tropical fish as pets; Food for a floating hotel - the supplies for an ocean liner's next trip are ordered while the liner is still 1000 miles out at sea; Whirling molten steel to make gun castings - newly perfected centrifugal process promises better guns; Treasure trove in lowly "Sweeps" - all wastes and sweepings in jeweler's plants are carefully salvaged and precious metals recovered from them. Building safety into automobile glass - laminated safety glass for cars does not shatter; Quartz takes up fire fighting in the automatic heads of sprinkler systems; Advertising a curb on product design pirates. Back cover graced with colour Lucky Strike advertisement featuring painting of a sensuous young woman beneath the caption "OK - Miss America! We thank you for your patronage."Three inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Book
Features: The Mine that Disappeared - a story related by a mining engineer about the Bocanegra Mine; Casshel's Escape - the story of Ernest Casshel, one of the few criminals to ever escape from the "North-West Mounted" (locale - Calgary, Alberta); On the trail of the Dinosaur - a recent expedition into the Colorado River section of the great American Desert, in the State of Arizona, claims to have found not only fossil tracks of the three-toed dinosaur, but a rock-carving of a dinosaur - a picture which man could not have made unless he had seen the reptile he attempted to portray - photos; Babes in a boat - a neophyte sailor and his wife set sail across the Pacific - Part II (conclusion); The Padded Room - one of the most amazing plots in the annals of the French police; Five Greenhorns in Canada - An amusing and illustrated account of the adventures of five inexperienced Englishmen who set forth to make homes for themselves in the Canadian wilderness; Lost in the heart of Peru - an explorer is abandoned by his guide in the upper reaches of the Amazon - part IV (conclusion); The Demon Lion of Bandari - Lion Hunt; At Grips in the Girders - an extraordinary battle; An Alligator-Hunter's Story in Mexico; Part IV of In Search of the Lost Oases - a desert trip from Sollum on the Mediterranean to El Obeid in the Sudan - many photos; The Phantom Reporter - a story from Canada's Pacific Coast by Charles Harrison Gibbons. Above-average wear. Faint owner's name atop front cover else unmarked. Binding intact. Nothing loose. Decent copy of this broadly interesting issue. Book
1957143914- Une feuille repliée. 77 x 120 cm.
13344In 4 demi-cuir, titre, roulette, filets dorés. Faux titre, titre, 542 pages. 26 planches hors texte sous serpentes imprimées. Il manque la planche 25. Lithographie de A.LUNEL. Extrait du tome XVI des mémoires de la société Linnéenne de Normandie. Paris SAVY libraire Juillet 1872. Rousseurs en début et fin de volume
185332436Paris J.B. Baillière 1853 in-4° Cartonnage éditeur, dos toilé 110 planches gravées en bon état de fraîcheur, Atlas Seul , 77 pp de texte
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 42 fine lithographed plates; original brown buckram, gilt backs, a very good, clean sound set. Sold from an institution with the usual markings on backstrips and titles. COMPLETE SETS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION ARE SCARCE
ORD-3401Extrait du cours lithographié de Géologie. 1848. Avec Explication des planches de fossiles qui accompagnent ce cours par Emile BAYLE. 1847. In-f°(254 x 325mm) dos lisse toile chagrinée brune et bande bordant les plats, titre doré au dos, plats et gardes marbrés, couverture imprimée conservée, 94 pages de texte lithographié et 12 planches lithographiées également, complet. Couverture abîmée en partie remontée, des rousseurs sur les planches. Assez bon exemplaire. Peu courant.
Folio (35x25cm). Pp. vi,331, about 350 photos of invertebrate fossils on 30 pls., refs., index. Half leather, cloth-lined boards, backstrip with raised bands. Some mild tropical wear, 2 pages with small repair, but a good copy yet. - Rare. Mostly on Carboniferous and Permo-Carboniferous, and Triassic. Fossils groups treated are mainly brachiopods, corals, and some molluscs and bryozoa.
198576275Stuttgart ; New York : G. Fischer, 1985. Ein Bestimmungsbuch für Fossiliensammler und Geologen 283 S. ; 31 cm Großformat, Leinen mit Umschlag / gebundene Ausgabe
4to. Vol. 1 (text): pp. 872, 76 figs., bibl., index; vol. 2 (atlas): pp. 363, numerous illus. on 104 pls. Orig. cloth. Rear hinge of vol. 1 neatly reinforced, very good otherwise.
