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Annals Of the Former World
by John McPhee
Annals of the Former World is a book on geology written by John McPhee and published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book presents a geological history of North America, and was researched and written over the course of two decades beginning in 1978."Most mountain ranges around the world are the result of compression, of segments of the earth's crust being brought together, bent, mashed, thrust and folded, squeezed up into the sky-- the...
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Assembling California
by John McPhee
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two...
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De Re Metallica
by Georgius Agricola
De re metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals) is a book cataloguing the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published in 1556. The author was Georg Bauer, whose pen name was the Latinized Georgius Agricola. The book remained the authoritative text on mining for 180 years after its publication. Agricola had spent nine years in the Bohemian town of Joachimsthal, now in the Czech Republic. (Joachimsthal is famous for its silver mines and the origin of the word "Thaler.
A Field Guide To Rocks and Minerals
by Frederick H Pough
The definitive guide to rocks and minerals, completely updated for the fifth edition, includes 385 color photographs showing rocks, minerals, and geologic formations. Hundreds of minerals are described, with details such as geographic formations. Hundreds of minerals are described, with details such as geographic distribution, physical properties, chemical composition, and crystalline structures.
Gemstones Of the World -- Revised and Expanded Edition
by Walter Schumann
English translation of: Edelsteine und Schmucksteine.
Includes index.
Includes index.
Geology Books & Ephemera
Minerals and Men
by James F. McDivitt
Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. Paperback. Very good/N/A. No markings. Very minor shelf wear with some discoloration. Small scuff mark on back cover.
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CA$13.90
Tsunami!
by Dudley, Walter C
University of Hawaii Press. Very Good. 1988. Paperback. 0824811259 . Signed by author on half title page. Minimal shelfwear, clean and straight. Beautiful copy. ; Kolowalu Book; 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 Inches; Signed by Author .
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CA$11.12
Assembling California
by McPhee, John
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993. First Edition. First printing Fine in decorated light green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Signed by the author without a date or inscription on the fly title page. 304 pages of text dealing with the geology of California. Illustrated with a frontispiece from a black and white, satellite, photograph of California's Central...
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CA$208.42
Mathematics in Geology.
by John Ferguson
London, UK Allen & Unwin, 1988. Paperback First Ed thus, so stated. First Ed thus, so stated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: binding square and secure; text clean. Just a hint of wear to extremities; else flawless. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 299pp. Textbook Paperback.
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CA$36.22
Extractive Metallurgy
by Newton, Joseph
No dust jacket. Very little wear. Blue-green cloth covered boards with gilt print on the spine. Blacked out owner's name inside the front cover. Pages are clean, tight and bright, with a number of tiny spots on the page edges, mainly on top. I have not observed any margin notes or underlining. This seems to be a quite rare book. I would imagine this more for a collector, as the techniques of metallurgy must have had some advances over the past sixty years. (Or maybe not all that much.)
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CA$24.32
The Origin of Continents and Oceans
by Alfred Wegener
Paperback / softback. New.
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CA$28.92
PALEOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY AND OIL POSSIBILITIES OF KAIPAROWITS REGION, UTAH
by Heylmun, Edgar B
The Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Good. 1958. Staplebound. Staplebound binding is sound and pages are gently yellowed. Few penned marks, but text is clear. Staples are rusted and small stains have bled onto cover and interior hinge. Covers have light soiling and a dampstain on back. Price and University of Utah stamp on front. Typed sheet with directions for "How to Make a Peel" inside front cover. ; 9.50 X 6.70 X 0.10 inches .
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CA$13.90
Elementary Geology with special reference to Canada
by A. P. & W. A. Parks Coleman
J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, London, 1930. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. So many elementary text-books of Geology are available that it seems almost superfluous to add to the number. Geology, however, is a science embracing, not only general principles of world-wide importance, but the application of those principles to the working-out of the history of a given locality or country. In this work the general principles of geology are illustrated, as far as...
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CA$26.07
Wolfcampian-Leonardian Shelf Margin Facies of the Sierra Diablo-Seismic Scale Models for Subsurface Exploration: 1995 Annual Field Trip Guidebook (West Texas Geological Society Publication, Nos. 95-97)
by Raymond A. Garber [Editor]; Robert F. Lindsay [Editor];
West Texas Geological Society, 1995-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1995 first edition, West Texas Geological Society (Midland, Texas), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall paperbound, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams/drawings, v, 161 pp. plus seven folding maps and charts in pocket at rear of volume. Slight rubbing and edgewear to covers. Prior owner name to top margin of title page. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this useful geological resource. Note...
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CA$55.51
Minerals and Man
by Hurlbut, Cornelius S., Jr
New York: Random House, 1970. Hardcover, large quarto in brown cloth and vibrantly colored, non price-clipped dust-jacket. 304 pages. Index. Illustrated with 217 photographs, 160 in full color. Third printing. A wonderfully presented collection of expert information, for the layman. on the nature, origin and properties of the world's 150 principal minerals and the stories of their use throughout history. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Small tear to...
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CA$13.90
Seismology and Plate Tectonics
by David Gubbins
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Seismology and Plate Tectonics.
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CA$112.97
Eastern England from the Tees to the Wash
by British Geological Survey
Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Regional Geology Guides provide a broad view and interpretation of the geology of a region.
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CA$18.56
The Mineral Kingdom
by Desautels, Paul E. ; Boltin, Lee
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 250 pages, ill. (some col.) First UK edition, first printing. Grey cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to edges, some rubbing to head of spine, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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CA$20.77
The Testimony of the Rocks
by Hugh Miller
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Testimony of the Rocks.
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CA$139.11
Mining and Metallurgical Practices in Australasia: The Sir Maurice Mawby Memorial Volume (Monograph series / Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy)
by J. T. (editor) Woodcock
Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/As New. grey end-papers; Monograph series No 10; illustrated by colour frontis. photo. of Sir Maurice; 8 pages of colour photo's. of mining; colour fold-out map of Australian deposits; b/w. photo's. throughout text plus charts, tables etc. Starting with an appreciation of Sir Maurice Mawby & an outline of the Australian mineral industry & a summary...
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CA$69.51
Rocks and Minerals: A Guide to Familiar Minerals, Gems, Ores, and Rocks
by Zim and Shaffer
Golden Press, 1957. Paperback. Good/N/A. Illustrated by Raymond Perlman. Cover edges are chipped and frayed, with surface scratches and chipping at upper right area of front cover near title lettering. Front cover also has some reading wear and sticker residue at the top right corner. Some pages have notes from the previous owner written in black ink. Pages 51-55 are dog-eared at the bottom right corners. Spine is square. Binding is cracked at front hinge and separating at back endpapers.
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CA$16.67
The Observer's Book of Geology (Observer's Pocket S.)
by Evans, I.O
Hardback. Acceptable.
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CA$3.68
The Story Of Kent's Cavern Torquay
by John Gerrard
W. F. & L. W. Powe (proprietors), Wellswood, Torquay, Devon, No date. Presumed First Edn. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Good Condition. an early 20-page booklet on Kents Cavern, a cave system in Torquay, Devon, England,s notable for its archaeological and geological features. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. unpaginated. no Dust Jacket as published.. Staples rusty. illustrated by b/w. photo's.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams....
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CA$17.38
Silurian rocks of western Millard County, Utah
by Rush, Richard W
University of Utah. Good. 1956. Staplebound. Staplebound volume with sound binding and clean pages. Staples in binding are rusted. Covers are sun faded and lightly soiled. ; 9 X 6 X 0.15 inches; 72 pages .
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CA$12.51
Outlines of Geology
by Comstock, J. L
New York: Robinson, Pratt and Co., 1840, c1834. Third Edition. Very good in its original green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A 12mo measuring 7 1/2" by 4 1/2" with foxing to the end sheets and mild foxing throughout the pages of the text block. An early prior owner's name and date of 1846 appears in ink at the upper fore corner of the title page. 384 pages and illustrated with line drawings and engravings throughout. The full title reads: "Outlines of...
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CA$138.95
Minerals and Rocks
by Simpson, B
London: Octopus Books Ltd, 1974. First Edition . Pictorial Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. The World's most beautiful natural wonders. Book & Jacket in VG condition. Please feel free to inquire for item specifics or additional photos. Books will be carefully packaged in cardboard boxes only. Combined shipping can apply for multiple purchases - please check out our other listings. International shipping costs will be assessed on a case by case basis....
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CA$20.84
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