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Librerías en Geología
Annals Of the Former World
de 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
de 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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Gemstones Of the World -- Revised and Expanded Edition
de Walter Schumann
English translation of: Edelsteine und Schmucksteine.
Includes index.
Includes index.
De Re Metallica
de 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
de 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.
Geología Libros & Coleccionables
Geology of the Tynemouth District
de Land, D. H
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1974. Hardcover. Price-clipped jacket is slightly shelfworn, with minor nicks at corners; spine ends are lightly bumped. Pages are clean and sound, with clear content throughout. Very good in a good jacket. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. TS. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.
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EUR 10.65
Rutleys Elements of Mineralogy - a Reprint of the Twenty Fourth Edition with a Chapter on the Atomic Structures of Minerals
de H.H.Read
Thomas Murby, 1960. Hardcover. Good. 1960. Reprint. 525 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
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EUR 4.64
Walks and Talks in the Geological Field
de Alexander Winchell
Flood and Vincent, 1894. Hardcover. Good. 1894. No Edition Remarks. 353 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with black design. Black and white illustration plates and diagrams throughout including illustration frontispiece. Pages bright and clear with slight tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Slight creasing to some pages. Previous owner's name and minor annotations to front pastedown. Some marginalia. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and...
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EUR 8.65
GOLD PROSPECTING FOR AMATEURS: Elementary Placer Mining Methods and Gold Saving Devices
de The Visual Aid Department of the WPA Adult Education Program
Los Angeles: The California State Department of Education, 1940. First Edition. Wraps. Good. This pamphlet is in no sense a treatise on placer mining. It is intended to give simple practical instructions and advice to the inexperienced placer prospector and miner more particularly residents of the state who are more or less acquainted with conditions here and who must live as cheaply as possible, with some chance at least partly to support themselves." 47 p., mimeographed, with textual illustrations....
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EUR 94.25
HUMPHRY DAVY ON GEOLOGY The 1805 Lectures for the General Audience
de DAVY, Humphry ed. & intro. by Robert Siegfried and Robert H. Dott Jr
Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1980. 1st ed. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 16 Cms x 23.5 Cms. illustrated endpapers, f/piece (Davy portrait)+xliv+169+colophon, numerous text ills. numbered by chapter, outer margins unjustified. Brown cloth cover, aside from a small black spot to lower front of little consequence this is a virtually pristine copy in similar unclipped jacket (will add protective sleeve when ordered). Davy's pioneering foray into this then largely undeveloped topic, Geology...
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INSIDE MINING The Economics of the Supply and Demand of Minerals and Metals
de CROWSON, Phillip
London: Mining Journal Books Limited, 1998. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Covers fine, central yellow section of sp. faded to white but this hardly significant. unpag. prelims + ix +230, frequent text graphs etc. numbered by chapter. 17 cm x 23 cm
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Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Prestwich. Written and Edited by his Wife
de PRESTWICH (Sir Joseph)
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1899. First edition, 8vo, xiv, [2], 444pp., portrait frontispiece, plates as called for, publishers orig. blue cloth, lettered in gilt, a nice copy.
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EUR 31.81
THE FLOATING EGG Episodes in the Making of Geology
de OSBORNE, Roger
London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Black cloth with gilt sp. lettering. xii + 372, numerous un-numbered ilss. of various kinds (inc. maps) intermittently throughout, inc. to t.p. and decoratively to 3 Contents pp. Pristine. Unclipped jacket in protective sleeve as acquired would also be pristine but for a now inaccessible price label to back, which is probably removable with care if sleeve were removed, curiously the centre of sp. on verso has a small...
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EUR 82.84
The Observer's Book of Geology
de I O. Evans
Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Good/Good. No Edition Remarks. 271 pages. Colour photographic dust jacket over brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine and front. Colour illustrative plates to mid section. Black & white illustrations & photographs throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild crinkling and light tanning. Boards have mild edge wear with light rubbing and crushing. Some light marking and tanning....
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The Evolution Of North America
de Philip B. King
Princeton University Press, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1964. Fourth Printing. 189 pages. Green dust jacket with brown lettering over navy cloth. Fold out map at back. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear and tear to edges and corners. Heavy sunning to spine and edges. Minor staining and soiling to DJ.
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EUR 6.92
Geology and Engineering
de Robert F.Legget
McGraw-Hill, 1939. Hardcover. Good. 1939. No Edition Remarks. 650 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen markings to front pastedown and free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Moderate sunning to...
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EUR 8.86
South Australia Department of Mines. Mining Review. No. 32
de Gee, Lionel C. E
Adelaide: Department of Mines, 1920. Paperback. Very good. Opal mining. 8vo, 60pp, original red paper wrappers, staple bound. B&W photos in text. Sunned, covers chipped at corners.
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EUR 32.99
Man and the Glacial Period
de G.Frederick Wright
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1893. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1893. No Edition Remarks. 385 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth board. Gilt lettering. Contains folded maps. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners...
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EUR 18.46
The Natural History of Igneous Rocks
de Alfred Harker
Paperback / softback. New. Based on his Cambridge lectures, this work by the petrologist Alfred Harker (1859-1939) offers an introduction to the development of rocks. Over the course of the work, he discusses vulcanicity, rock structure, crystallization, the role of magma and principles of rock classification, aided by more than one hundred diagrams.
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EUR 49.41
The Old Red Sandstone Or New Walks In An Old Field
de Hugh Miller
William P. Nimmo, 1873. Hardcover. Good. 1873. No Edition Remarks. 385 pages. No dust jacket. Fully bound in blue leather with gilt. Marbled end-papers and text block edges. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine worn with loss and tanning, Gilt lettering is darkened.
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EUR 15.82
GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY AROUND CHURCH STRETTON, CRAVEN ARMS, WENLOCK EDGE AND BROWN CLEE (Explanation of the One-inch Geological Survey Sheet 166, New Series)
de GREIG, D.C. and 3 others plus 11 contributors
London: H.M.S.O. for Natural Environment Research Council Instutute of Geological Sciences, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Fine. Oreange cloth with black lettering. f/piece + xiii +379, multiple photos on 12 further plates ex-pagination, 4 col. maps ex-pagination as Figs 1- 4, 22 further text fig. Pristine copy. Jacket price-clipped by pub. to add price revision, otherwise no significant faults, will add protective sleeve when ordered. An ISBN number tipped in verso p.379 but seems to be...
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DERIVATION, MEANING, AND USE OF GEOMAGNETIC INDICES
de Mayaud, P.N
Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Geophysical Monograph 22. Octavo. 154 p. with several textual figures and tables. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
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EUR 37.70
THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS: Their People and Natural History (With keys to the identification of the Birds and Plants)
de COLLINS, Henry B. Jr., CLARK, Austin H., WALKER, Egbert H
Washington (D.C.): Smithsonian Institution, 1945. 1st ed. . Printed gret card. VG(-). 15 Cm x 23 Cm. f/piece+131, 8 figs (1st being an unf.map after p.2), 21 plates (typically 2 per page, ex-pagination); square 'LePlay House Library' stamps top outer corners front conrer and t.p., slight outer top and bottom corner creases affecting all text-block but very shallow and of little real consequence. Issued as Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies Number Twebnty One, with series list recto...
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INTRODUCTION TO GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS
de Campbell, Wallace H
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. ...presents the geomagnetic source fields - using a minimum of mathematics without sacrificing depth of coverage. A description of measurement methods and a thorough review of the societal impact and use of geomagnetic fields complete the main text." Octavo: 290 p. with numerous textual figures. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
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EUR 70.69
OUR COMMON BRITISH FOSSILS and Where to Find Them. A Handbook for Students
de TAYLOR, J.E
London: Chatto and Windus, 1885. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good-VG for Age. Dark red cloth with gilt lettering and motifs plus black borderlines etc., clean but slight sp. fading and light rubbing to sp.ends and joints. xii + 331, 331 text ills (i.e. as pagination); clean, tight and unmarked but a few incipient gutter openings and dustiness to top edge. Covers only invertebrate fossils. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm
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EUR 14.20
PALEOCLIMATE AND EVOLUTION, with Emphasis on Human Origins
de Vrba, Elisabeth S., George H. Denton, Timothy C. Partridge, and Lloyd H. Burckle (Editors)
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.
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EUR 47.12
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1886
de COOK, Geo.H
Trenton, NJ: John L. Murphy, 1887. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good+. 14.5 Cm x 22.5 Cm. 254 pp., several text figs and a number of col.map plates not inc. in pagination; edges browning otherwise internally excellent & unmarked. Printed board cover tight but a tad rubbed & grubby, sm.chip bottom fr. corner, extremeties rubbed, esp.of black cloth sp.ends. A sound copy. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate...
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST FOR THE YEAR 1882 Geological Survey of New Jersey
de Cook, George H. State Geologist
Camden, N. J.: F. F. Patterson. Good. 1882. Flexible covers. Lightly soiled paper covered boards with black cloth spine. Text tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with color tinted engravings. Prior owners signature. Spine has a small cloth tear. Covers with edge wear. Rear cover has a mended tear. Science, Geology; Color Engravings ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages .
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EUR 28.28
!['Observations of Proofs of Recent Elevation on the Coast of Chile: A Sketch of the Deposits containing Extinct Mammalia in the Neighborhood of the Plata.' [with] 'On certain Areas of Elevation and Subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans as deduced from Coral Formaions.'](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/417/036/1436036417.0.m.jpg)
