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By: ALT, David D.; HYNDMAN, Donald W.
Price: $10.50
Publisher: Missoula, MT, U.S.A., Mountain Press Publishing Company: 1974
Stock No.: 77364
Stated fourth printing, 1974. With 6 separate fold-out maps, plus additional b&w photos, drawings and maps. The casual geologist can use this guide while driving the highways of Western Montana, Idaho and NW Wyoming to observe and identify geologic features seen in that region. --- In yellow paper-covered wraps. Previous owner's signature, notes and embossed seal on title page; some rippling to back cover, else a firm, clean copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 280 pages View more info
Price: $90.00
Publisher: Atlanta, Georgia, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology: 1994
Stock No.: 73392
The proceedings in a 3-volume set. In excellent shape. Due to the weight (about 9 lbs.), extra shipping may be requested. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1572 pages View more info
By: BARNES-SVARNEY, Patricia (editorial director)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1995
Stock No.: 76439
A useful treasury of scientific facts. Loaded with diagrams, tables, and charts showing the 'most frequently sought information in every field of science. A clean, bright, unmarked copy. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 668 pages View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1967
Stock No.: 78392
Stated seventh printing. Any book published in the 1960s and promising to look to the future of computers might be of interest in view of the rapid technological changes since then. --- In full black cloth-covered boards and with reel-to-reel tape artwork on jacket cover. A firm, clean, bright copy. Jacket with very large curved piece torn away on back; else ok. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 113 pages View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.: 1936
Stock No.: 76974
This technical work from the early twentieth century features plenty of charts and illustrations. With taped-in booklet supplying 'answers to problems' posed in the book. --- In black full cloth-covered boards. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A firm, complete copy but the gilt spine titling has almost completely flaked off. Discolored cloth, perhaps as many as 12 pages with pencilings; previous owner's signature on front paste-down. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; xix, 584 ... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Houston Geological Society: 1975
Stock No.: 60505
Collection of geologic studies of deltaic environments; with their oil and gas potentials. In super shape, w/full blue cloth covers. ; 60505; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: CALDER, Nigel
Price: $10.50
Publisher: New York, Viking: 1979
Edition: BCE
Stock No.: 74749
Book club edition. In black quarter cloth and copper paper-covered boards. Smudge on front free endpaper, else a bright, clean copy lacking markings. Jacket with slight chafing at edges. --- Author's much-admired work explains Einstein's Theory of Relativity for the average reader. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 154 pages View more info
By: CHRONIC, Halka
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Missoula, MT, U.S.A., Mountain Press Publishing Company, Incorporated: 1987
Stock No.: 74139
Stated Fifth Printing, 1987. With numerous maps, drawings and photos. Includes guide to stratigraphic drawings at rear. Meant as guide to geology for the layman as one might encounter it when driving through the Colorado Rockies. Clean, bright, tight copy.; 31162; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 322 pages View more info
By: DABOLL, Nathan
Price: $27.00
Publisher: Utica, New York, Gardiner Tracy: 1841
Stock No.: 82423
A well worn 1841 copy of this early 19th century reference, which debuted in 1800. This text was used to instruct the student in the use of multiple forms of mathematics, such as fractions, currency reduction, annuities and interest among many of other topics. With appended section of rules for calculating interest and rebates and a separate short work entitled "The Practical Accountant. . .Best Method of Book Keeping" by Samuel Green. --- This compact edition in... View more info
By: DARWIN, Charles
Price: $37.00
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1963
Stock No.: 81850
A deluxe illustrated edition in slipcase of Charles Darwin's landmark work of natural history. With woodcut engraved illustrations by Paul Landacre. Includes a new preface by the author's grandson, Charles G. Darwin. --- In green paper-covered boards backed in darker green leatherette with titling and illustrations gilt-stamped on cover and spine; green topstain. Slipcase covered in light green paper. Sandglass flyer laid in (New York, no. XIV:27). --- A very nice copy:... View more info
By: DARWIN, Charles (author); DARWIN, Francis (editor)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Dover Publications: [c.1970s]
Stock No.: 80054
A trade paperback edition offering Darwin's memoir, with letters. Much of this work is concerned with his landmark "Origin of Species." Edited by Francis Darwin, son of Charles Darwin. An "abbreviation" of Charles Darwin's lengthy "Life and Letters" of 1887. Indexed. --- A clean, firm, bright copy lacking markings. Covers with slight chafing to edges.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xiv, 365 pages View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Blue Ribbon Books: 1925
Stock No.: 77035
Stated sixty-fourth printing of this once-popular work. In it, the author scientifically explores the workings of the human body and mind, and compares and contrasts human behavior to other life forms. With a laid-in gift card to recipient from 'Daddy', dated 1966. --- In full orange buckram, with titling in black on spine. --- A firm copy though with some penciled underlinings, soiling on a few pages, and chafing to edges of covers. Lacks a dust jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9... View more info
By: Eckstein, Gustav
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1970
Edition: BCE
Stock No.: 73222
The complexities of the human body are explained in an understandable way. A good Book Club copy, in full turquoise cloth on board covers. With bumped corners; clean interior. Dust jacket some chipping at spine ends; in good overall shape. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 799 pages View more info
By: ELIOT, Charles W. (editor)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1910
Stock No.: 81118
A collection of famous tales from the Middle Ages to the Elizabethan era. Includes: Chronicles of Jean Froissart, The Holy Grail from the Book of King Arthur by Thomas Malory and The Raphael Holinshead Chronicles, which attempt to tell the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland. --- The 35th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who has supplied introductions and notes. With sepia painting of the Bat... View more info
Price: $13.50
Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier & Son: 1910
Stock No.: 80695
A selection of explanations of various scientific phenomena by leading experts in their fields. Many of the writings are accompanied by black & white drawings. The 30th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who supplies introductions and notes. With sepia frontis portrait of Michael Faraday. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with the Harvard crest in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling & dec... View more info
By: GESNER, Abraham
Price: $36.00
Publisher: Drake Well Foundation: 2001
Stock No.: 82388
A 2001 facsimile of Abraham Gesner's 1861 Baillière Brothers guide to his various processes for refining "coal oil", petroleum, and other distilled oils. This work served as a primer for the early petroleum industry. With several sketches and tables depicting these processes and the equipment needed to perform them. With a foreword by Samuel T. Pees and a biographical sketch of Abraham Gesner by William R. Brice. --- In full dark green cloth-covered boards with ... View more info
By: GIECK, Kurt
Price: $13.00
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1971
Edition: First American Edition
Stock No.: 80095
Stated first U.S. edition. This compact work offers over 1500 formulas and tables of measurements for the engineer. With over 300 diagrams. Technical and mathematical formulas are presented, including measurements of areas, solid bodies, trigonometry, analytical geometry, special functions, differential calculus and statistics. Printed on rectos only, leaving the opposite pages (left sides) blank for notes, etc. Unpaginated (about 380 pp.). --- In green paper-covered boa... View more info
By: GILLETTE, David; HALLETT, Mark (illustrations
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1994
Stock No.: 76682
An account of the discovery of the remains of the gargantuan Seismosaurus hallorum, one of the largest of the dinosaurs, in central New Mexico in 1979. With illustrations throughout by Mark Hallett, and numerous color photos. Indexed. --- With a little curling to lower corners, else a clean, bright copy lacking markings. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 205 pages View more info
By: Gribbin, John
Price: $65.00
Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 2006
Stock No.: 72152
Gorgeous volume traces the people and their discoveries. In decorative light blue and gilt design front & rear covers. Top edge bright gilt. Interior liberally dotted with pictures, is clean, bright & unmarked. Slipcase in generally good shape, but with small corner tears. [Any reference to dust jacket refers to this volume's slipcase. ]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
By: HOOL, George A.; JOHNSON, Nathan C. (editors)
Price: $13.00
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc: 1929
Stock No.: 82394
Stated second edition, sixth impression of this comprehensive guide to construction design and realization. With hundreds of drawings, tables, charts and graphs; and with a black & white frontis photo of the University Club of Chicago building. Volume I only (of the original 2-volume set). The content of this handbook was contributed by a staff of fifty specialists. Indexed. --- In limp green cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume has no dust jacket... View more info
By: HOPKINS, Ralph Lee; HOPKINS, Lindy Birkel
Price: $15.50
Publisher: Seattle, The Mountaineers: 2000
Stock No.: 80416
Details about 50 hikes around Colorado, with explanations of geologic features encountered along the way. Each hike with information such as length of hike, difficulty, and w/reference to relevant USGS topo map(s) which are available. Most accompanied by black and white photos, and with a section of bright color photos. --- In stiff wraps with color photo of watery mountain scene on cover. --- A clean, unmarked copy but with a little bruising to front cover.; Octavo (8 t... View more info
By: JOHNSTON, John
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Charles DeSilver & Sons: 1876
Stock No.: 81953
A basic guide, for the young student, to "natural philosophy", or what might be called "basic physics" in the 21st century. With illustrations throughout. Back of volume with several pages of advertisements for other DeSilver publications. --- Stated 25th revised edition, in dark red cloth-covered boards backed in tooled leather with titling and decorations stamped in gilt. Publisher's device stamped on front and back covers. --- With pencilings and rubb... View more info
By: KANE, John J.
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc.: 1963
Stock No.: 78953
Stated second printing. A look at various social problem areas; with a few diagrams and an index. --- In full textured green paper-covered boards. --- Clean, bright, firm copy but with inked signature & five phone numbers on front paste-down; and a few inkings here and there. Lacks a dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xv, 428 pages View more info
By: KEEN, A. Myra
Price: $42.50
Publisher: Stanford, California U. S. A., Stanford University Press: 1960
Edition: Second Printing
Stock No.: 71830
"This is the first attempt to list and provide illustrations of the sea shells of the entire area of the Panamic marine province..." Stated 2nd prtg of extremely detailed inventory of shellfish sea life from Baja to Columbia. In full blue, lightly stained cloth covers w/seashell artwork & printing in gilt, minor edgewear. DJ bears orig $12.50 flap price and is chipped, espec at head & tail of spine. Now in removable mylar protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
By: KEENAN, Joseph H.; KEYES, Frederick G.
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons: 1936
Stock No.: 77506
First Edition. Technical work includes numerous charts and graphs. Includes 29 in. wide x 39 in. tall folded Mollier Chart in pocket inside rear cover. In maroon cloth-covered boards w/gilt-stamped titling on spine; published on buff-colored papers. --- With minor cover rubbing and a few penciled notations; else a firm, bright copy. Chart isn't damaged. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 89 pages View more info
By: MAMMANA, Dennis
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Running Press: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 81104
First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. A history of astronomy and man's attempts to understand worlds beyond our own. With dozens of color and black & white photos. --- In dark blue paper-covered boards with silver-stamped spine titling. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A clean, firm, bright copy but with a little rubbing to cover edges and bumped cover corners.; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 160 pages View more info
By: MARTIN, Henno
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Windhoek, Namibia, Verlag der Namibia Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft: 1995
Stock No.: 80148
German language. A softcover edition of the author's account of his experiences in present-day Namibia during World War II. German nationals Henno Martin and partner Hermann Korn, were working geologists in the former German colony of South-West Africa (now Nambia). When war broke out, they decided to wait it out in a remote desert canyon area to avoid internment. This work with plenty of black and white photos and a fold-out map of the areas in which they worked. --- Wi... View more info
By: MAURY, M. [atthew] F. [ontaine]
Price: $186.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers: 1855
Stock No.: 82408
A third edition, enlarged and improved, of Matthew Fontaine Maury's detailed 1855 study of the world's oceans. With 7 folded maps and a folded pilot sheet at rear of volume, one additional map and two more plates with drawings within the volume. Maury served in the U. S. Navy and when an injury ended his nautical career, he turned to the science of the seas. This work was influential for oceanic work and understanding and was used by mariners, cable-layers and others af... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts,, Harvard University Press: 1991
Stock No.: 76672
Toronto palaeontologist's work is described on cover blurb: 'At last, a grown-up's book about dinosaurs...beautifully illustrated...written by a literate scientist. --- In very nice shape: clean, bright and unmarked but with a little curling to lower corners. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 365 pages View more info
Price: $38.00
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1971
Stock No.: 73455
Scientific work in a decent copy. Stated 6th printing. In full black cloth-covered boards; a few tears in cloth at spine. Interior clean and tight. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 591 pages View more info
By: PASCAL, Blaise
Price: $96.00
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1984
Stock No.: 81797
A deluxe Franklin Library edition presenting the writings of Blaise Pascal, the multi-talented 17th century Frenchman (inventor of an early mechanical calculator), including his essays on faith, "Thoughts" ("Pensées"), translated from the French by W. F. Trotter, as well as his "Provincial Letters" (translated by Thomas M'Crie) and an assortment of his Scientific Treatises (translated by Richard Scofield). Includes a painted color portait of Pasc... View more info
By: PEARL, Richard
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Signet Key Books/New American Library: 1958
Stock No.: 77493
Stated third printing, January 1958 of this work which first appeared in a 1955 hardcover publication by McGraw-Hill. With b&w drawings throughout, plus a section of color plates. --- A firm, clean, unmarked copy. ; 192 pages View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1954
Stock No.: 82159
Stated third printing of this guide to all manner of mineral forms, with several sets of color and black & white plates; along with numerous drawings and maps of North American and volcanic generalized formations at endpapers. This work is suitable for research world-wide, and was later revised with second and subsequent editions. Number 7 in the publisher's Peterson Field Guide Series. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards with pickaxe illustration and titling in darke... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Nature Association, Inc.: 1974
Stock No.: 77318
A scientific work, produced in cooperation with the National Park Service, which examines the geology of the Rocky Mountain National Park. With 18 in. x 24 in. folded map of the Park in rear pocket. Includes numerous color and b&w photos, plus drawings and charts. --- With previous owner's signatures & sticker inside front cover; else a clean, bright, firm copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 81 pages View more info
By: Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
Price: $167.00
Publisher: Denver, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists: 1972
Stock No.: 79589
This oversize folio (18 in. wide x 21.5 in. tall) provides a comprehensive view of the locations of various mineral families in the Rocky Mountain states of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah and Arizona. With multiple color-coded maps and plenty of black and white photos. A production of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. Each section or topic is written by a different person(s) with a foreword by William Wyman Mallory, member of the Associat... View more info
By: SIGAFOOS, Robert S.; HENDRICKS, E. L.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Washington, D. C., United States Government Printing Office: 1972
Stock No.: 82130
A portfolio containing a 24-page scholarly study of eight glaciers at Mount Rainier, Washington. The study, in stapled wraps, with numerous black & white photos. Also included are several folded maps with photos; housed in provided pocket. --- In stiff outer boards with green monochrome image of Rainier to cover; repeated on study cover. --- Portfolio is sound shape with very slight soiling but otherwise undamaged. Maps and stapled study also undamaged.; Quarto (11 to 13... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, IEEE Press: 1988
Stock No.: 73393
Part of the publisher's selected reprint series. In excellent shape, with olive pictorial hardcover; illustration of radar installation on cover. With loose technical material laid in. Clean, bright and tight copy. This is a real book, this is not an insta-print book. ; IEEE Press Selected Reprint Series; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 477 pages View more info
By: Sobel, Dava
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Walker and Company: 1995
Stock No.: 50326
The story of how mankind were able to master the concept of longitude and accurately measure it is the subject of this compact, popular work. In full brown paperboard covers w/clean, unmarked interior. Dust jacket has crease at front flap; w/orig $19 price intact. Stated 14th printing. ; 50326; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View more info
By: SOBEL, Dava
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Viking: 2005
Stock No.: 74083
First Edition/First Printing. In pictorial covers featuring depiction of Saturn in a field of stars on them. Interior clean and bright. Author's 'guided tour' of Earth's solar system in a sharp copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 270 pages View more info
Price: $16.50
Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey,, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.: 1963
Stock No.: 78254
Per the jacket flap: "This book provides a comprehensive guide to the uses of Radar and other electronic aids to navigation." With dozens of charts, tables (some fold-out), photos, drawings and other illustrations. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards w/gilt-stamped titling on spine. Volume wrapped in pink jacket w/blue radar screen image on cover. --- With gift inscription on front free endpaper, else a bright, firm, clean copy. Jacket with minor rubbing; else... View more info
