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1868015070London: John van Voorst 1868. Small quarto frontispiece map pp lii 214 endpapers a little foxed and blotched otherwise clean internally pages bruised at the lower and upper inner corners near the spine original cloth-backed boards slightly worn and soiled spine slightly torn at the head. VERY SCARCE. Bigsby was an English physician who became known for his work on geology an interest developed while on military service in Lower and Upper Canada during 1818 to 1826. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 1850 he published a lively book The Shoe and Canoe recounting his life and travels in British North America . In 1868 he published his most important scientific work Thesaurus Siluricus being a list of all the fossils which occur in the Silurian formation across the world. . First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good. John van Voorst Hardcover
1984MN-14WashingtonD.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior 1984. Comprehensive reference text presents relevant thermodynamic data for elements oxides and compounds including irreversible transformations decomposition metastable phases enthalpy changes and increments entropy etc. Contains sections on thermodynamic background and applications thermodynamic property tables measurement and abbreviation units and symbols. 355 pgs. Prior owner's name stamps on endpapers; small label and numerals to front cover. Gilt spine and front cover. Minimal shelfwear. . Hard Cover. Very Good/ . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Professional Library. U.S. Department of the Interior Hardcover
1989SB11514NY: Springer-Verlag 1989. Gift quality copy bright and tight textblock. No remainder marks. Minimal rubbing to head and foot of sunned spine and to the corners as well. 319pp. including bibliographical references and index. Glossy Illustrated Boards. Near Fine. Illus. by Diagrams/Charts/Graphs. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Springer-Verlag Paperback
1989GE-200New York: Springer-Verlag 1989. Classic comprehensive presents the theory methods of study and applications of the major organic and inorganic indicators used to determine thermal history. Topics include: molecular and bulk organic indicators of thermal maturity; chemical thermometers in subsurface waters; fluid inclusions; illite-smectite transformation; fission-track analysis; modeling procedures; etc. 319 pgs. 197 illustrations. Prior owner's nameplate pastedown on front endpaper; tiny numbers printed on lower spine; clean pocket remnant on rear endpaper. Minimal shelfwear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex- Professional Library. Springer-Verlag Hardcover
20079285500Ashgate 2007. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item800grams ISBN:9780754670995 Ashgate hardcover
Hardcover with jacket in very good condition. Volume one only. Papers presented at the Second International Scientific Congress, Santorini, Greece, August 1978. Jacket is scored and worn. Jacket and hardcover spine ends are lightly bumped. A few light marks on hardcover. Page block is marked and scored. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW Used
201837292Edition Open Source 2018. Sources 9. Fine/No Jacket. Pictorial hard covers Scarcely used. Includes a coloured facsimile of Vallisneri's manuscript. Edition Open Source hardcover
157 illustrations, 13 tables, small chips to bottom edge of front cover, text clean and tight Used
1982GE-234Amsterdam The Netherlands: Elsevier 1982. Classic revised and updated text translated from the original Romanian presents a comprehensive theoretical and practical treatise comprising six parts: physical geodesy; ellipsoidal geodesy; astro-geodetic triangulation; three-dimensional geodesy; methods for determining the terrestrial ellipsoid and the geoid; determination of the movements of the earth's crust. 694 pgs. Illustrated. Prior owner's small stamps blacked out on front endpaper lower title pg. outer edge; and lower spine label. Spine slightly faded. Minimal shelfwear. . Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Professional Library. Elsevier Hardcover
Edgeworn hardcover (no jacket), most notably on the spine ends, edges and leading corners. Sound publication with clean pages and clear content.
SECRETARIAT DU COLLOQUE - COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL SUR L'EXPLOITATION DES OCEANS. NON DATE. In-8 Carré. Broché. Etat d'usage. 1er plat abîmé. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. Environ 80 pages accompagnées de quelques graphiques et plans en noir . BORDEAUX FRANCE - MARS 1971.
1982033341Colorado Department Of Natural Resources Mined Land Reclamation Division Inactive Mine Program 1982. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Maps Charts Photographs. Two Massive Volumes Grey Wrappers Printed In Black. No Names Or Marks Or Damage Touch Of Rubbing 1/18" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Spine Edge Of Volume Ii. International Shipping At Higher Than The Standard Rate Quoted. <br/> <br/> Colorado Department Of Natural Resources, Mined Land Reclamation Division, Inactive Mine Program paperback
1980GE-327Stuttgart Germany: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Nagele U. Obermiller 1980. Comprehensive text presents detailed technical papers covering sedimentary aspects of the Upper Permian Zechstein basin of Central and North-Western Europe including sedimentary evolution of the Zechstein basin; the diagenesis in evaporitic sequences; paleogeography; the depositional environment; etc. 328 pp. Illustrated with 168 figures and 5 tables in the text and on 3 folders. Prior owner's nameplate pastedown on the front endpaper; small stamp to title page; small numerals to lower spine; clean pocket remnant on the rear endpaper. No spine cracks. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Professional Library. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nagele U. Obermiller) Paperback
157p. Text drawings by A. L. Helm and the author. Endpapers beginning to brown. 8vo. Original full black cloth binding, slightly worn and spotted. Hardbound. SPACE/4
Book appears in as new unread condition. 324pp. The author considers what the Earth would be like - in a day, a week, a month, a millennium - if all humans were to vanished from it. How long would our greatest achievements and our biggest mistakes last.
2090502113713338Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
37297Geological Society of America New York 1931. New/No Jacket. Paper covers Still in its transparent wrapper. Geological Society of America, New York unknown
20125844178Wiley-Blackwell 2012. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1250grams ISBN:9781444336801 Wiley-Blackwell hardcover
20144137541Wiley-Blackwell 2014. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1250grams ISBN:9781118474488 Wiley-Blackwell hardcover
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part II - The U.S. attempts to prevent the arming of revolutionaries in Dominica in 1906-7; Hunting Wild Goats By Seaplane and Motorcycle Near San Clemente - article with photos; Remanded - a perfectly blameless man is blamed for a crime; Full Speed Astern - 400 men aboard the steamer Remiji Maru are saved by the action of a young engineer on watch two days out of Hong Kong; The Wild Men of Borneo - Wonderful photo-illustrated account of a visit to the Dyaks; Photo and letter from a reader who, with five friends, dressed up in KKK outfits and brought along a relative in blackface to entertain at a fancy-dress ball in Leeds; Across Remote Yunnan - Part II - Capt. F. Kingdon Ward continues his journey through the little-known region where the frontiers of China and Tibet meet - article with nice photos; Two Men and a "Pink" - terrifying experience of two returned Canadian soldiers off the coast of Labrador aboard their vessel Terra Nova, nicknamed the Turn Over; "Gentleman" Girard - Frenchman Henri Girard made a profession of poisoning people whose lives he had insured; The Ghost Dancers of the Imst - unusual customs in the Tyrolian valley village of Imst - article with photos; Down the "Old Delph" - two men venture into a disused mine near Roby Mill in Lancashire; Marooned On a Precipice - Three mountain climbers, Karl Aichner, Alois Netzer, and Conrad Schuster, are stranded for six days in the Northern Tyrol; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 180-264, 9-16 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear and some soiling to back cover. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Features: Destination Unknown - one of the most remarkable narratives of one-man pilgrimage ever - the adventures of Peter Pinney; Ocean Feud - the dramatic story of a bitter feud between two Norsemen, and of a "Yank" - great photos; The Terror at 16 Fathoms - Divers rate the groper, 800lb, as the deadliest fish in the seas; Horned Heroine of the Himilayas - the black goat; Nitchie's Grizzly - a Canadian Parks Officer describes an experience with a Grizzly Bear; The Ju-Ju Tree - an African story; A Ship with a Secret - an unsolved sea mystery - the Carrol A. Deering; The Kidnapped Crook - Part II - the concluding instalment of the amazing adventure of Clement Passal - alias the Marquis de Champaubert; The Wettest Place on Earth - Cherrapunji, a village in Assam; and more. Chips from back strip. Back cover loose but present. Average wear. Book
Features: The "Hard-Case" Skipper; a young Merchant Navy radio-operator tries his luck aboard a North Sea Trawler; A God Comes Home - a missing bronze statue of Zeus; The Burning Ship - An attempted rescue during a fire at sea; The Ju-Ju Snake - a West African tale; Sea Lion Islands - the author visits Sea Lion Rookeries on islands off British Columbia at breeding time - photos; Under Two Flags - a Brit on leave on the French Riviera is mistaken for a French deserter and ordered to perform 18 months military service in France!; Unlucky Mica - a prospector's story about the discovery and abandonment of a rich deposit of Mica in Nigeria; The Hottest Place on Earth - Death Valley, California - photos include one of a 20 mule team; The Regimental Ghost - strange happenings with a famous unit of the Indian Army; Canadian Loggers - describes Hastings Street, Vancouver in the 1950s - a fascinating historical backdrop to the problems which currently plague the area; The World's Richest Treasure Store - Fort Knox Depository, Kentucky; A bed of bayonets; The Gibraltar Apes; A Hippo with Toothache - a hippo turns nasty; and more. Small chip from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Pages 287-352, 14 ads. Features: My Adventures in "German South-West" (I) - a bicycle trip through south-west Africa; The Blue Powder - a story of bewitching from Nigeria; Among the Yahgans - a sailor's story from the waters of Tierra del Fuego; The Queen Side of Things - My Chinese Crystal - the events which came with a curio believed to have been stolen from a Chinese temple; The Devil-Panther - two British sportsmen seek to kill this beast; An Errand of Mercy - the difficulties of travel in rural Paraguay; "Hoodlum" - Roger Berry was a fireman aboard a Lake Erie tug; The Talking Crow - a tale from autumn 1922; Outlaws at Bay - a tale from North-west India; Rescuing the Doctor - a tale from the Peruvian jungle; Malayan Gang-Robbers; The Yacca-Gummers; Anstruther Gets a Job; Man and His Needs. Heavily worn. Covers nearly detached. Bit of writing atop first page of advertising and page 339. A worthy reading copy. Book
Features: The "Hard-Case" Skipper; a young Merchant Navy radio-operator tries his luck aboaord a North Sea Trawler; A God Comes Home - a missing bronze statue of Zeus; The Buring Ship - An attempted rescue during a fire at sea; The Ju-Ju Snake - a West African tale; Sea Lion Islands - the author visits Sea Lion Rookeries on islands off British Columbia at breeding time - photos; Under Two Flags - a Brit on leave on the French Riviera is mistaken for a French deserter and ordered to perform 18 months military service in France!; Unlucky Mica - a prospector's story about the discovery and abandonment of a rich deposit of Mica in Nigeria; The Hottest Place on Earth - Death Valley, California - photos include one of a 20 mule team; The Regimental Ghost - strange happenings with a famous unit of the Indian Army; Canadian Loggers - describes Hastings Street, Vancouver in the 1950s - a fascinating historical backdrop to the problems which currently plague the area; The World's Richest Treasure Store - Fort Knox Depository, Kentucky; A bed of bayonets; The Gibraltar Apes; A Hippo with Toothache - a hippo turns nasty; and more. Small chip from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Faint signature atop front cover. Quality copy. Book
Pages 86-168+ 20 pages of nice ads, including photo of Earle E. Liederman, "The Muscle Builder". Features: Mazulla and His Sahib, part 1 - moving Indian adventures, with photos; Neilson's New Man -a story of country life in New Zealand; The Tale-Teller of Algiers - the strange adventure of a visitor to Algiers in October, 1925; Mussolini's War Against the Mafia in Sicily - describes the first stage of the great 'clean-up' - a most dramatic and exciting business - article with photos of Police Commissioner Spano, Signor Mori of Palermo, Gaetono Ferrarello, Carmelo Andaloro, Salvatore Ferrarello, and Nicolo Andaloro; Mr. Stepper, I.D.B. - a diamond story; The Trouble in Coeur D'Alene - part 2 - going undercover to investigage labor-management conflict in the mining district of Northern Idaho - with photos; "Free-Trading" in the Arctic - great photo-illustrated article about white traders living in remote Indian and Eskimo territories; Photo of Korean wedding; One Thing After Another - troubles on the Inyoka Tobacco Estate in Rhodesia, with photo of author and trouble-making jackal; Across North America in a Motor-Boat, part 4 of this record-setting 6,000 mile trip - with maps and photos; The Cleverest Thieves on Earth - The Criminal Tribes of India - a photo-illustrated account of the 'crims' and their hereditary war against society. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
