New York: The Witkin Gallery, Inc., 1991. Pamphlet. [24]p., introduction, vita and 14 captioned plates on high-gloss paperstock. Softbound in oblong 8.5x11 inch stapled grey wraps with slight external hints of handling, no ownership or other marks, a very good copy. Lots of aerial pix; he had much support from..... More
Cat.No: 228699
Cambridge: Anthropology Resource Center, 1976. Paperback. 106p., wraps, 8.25x10.75 inches, remainder mark on bottom edge else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 288715
Raleigh: North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, 1925. 104p., 6.75x9.75 inches, foreword, general summary, footnotes, appendix, publication list, tables. Ex library copy with markings in original stiff wraps and a large water-stain to top-right corner of text block affecting every leaf. A reading copy. Economic Paper No. 55. More
Cat.No: 79377
Poway, CA: LeGil Printing Service, for author's children, 1937. 66p., staplebound gatherings in decorated 6.5 x 4.25 inch wraps, a fresh-looking copy (may be reprint). Redemptionist lay Christian inspiration in doggerel form. None but the remotest mining/miners content in the verse, but intermittant prose-pieces briefly relate adventures at Bassic mine..... More
Cat.No: 70293
New York: J. H. Colton and Company, 1856. ix, 225p., six double-spread maps as called for, each competently hand-colored with pale washes; wood-engraved vignettes; 7.6x5 inch brown cloth boards spine-titled gilt with impanelled covers press-decorated in blind. A sound copy with the following faults: edgewear with small spots of card..... More
Cat.No: 172955
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1948. 31p., presswork on laid-lined paperstock, sewn pamphlet in 9x6 inch plain printed grey wraps, signatures are only partially opened (not too badly), former owner pooped out. Thread is sound, covers a little crimped and toned, clean and unmarked within, a good to very..... More
Cat.No: 256320
Victoria, BC: Bill & Julie Hutchinson, 1976. Pamphlet. 52 pages, illustrations, wraps. 11 x 8.5 in. Very Good. The authors, borrowing heavily from Japanese culture, introduce Canadian rock collectors to Suiseki, the art of the selection and viewing of artistically water-worn stones. The introduction ends by admonishing geologists as greedy..... More
Cat.No: 299705
Pasadena CA: Tetra Tech Inc., 1979. Paperback. vii, 328p., text reproduced from keyboard-set ms, illustrated with diagrams, tables, formulae; softbound in 10x10 inch decorated wraps. Slightest edgewear with a tiny corner-tip bump, completely clean, sound and unmarked, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 241188
Freiburg: Herder, 1899. Hardcover. An especially nice exemplar of the first edition in its original dust jacket: xiii, 531p., plates as called for including color frontis and (bound in at back) a folded world map in colors. Bound in also are perhaps a dozen sepia terraine maps with added spot-colors..... More
Cat.No: 251797
San Francisco: San Francisco Press, Inc, 1968. Hardcover. vii, 54p., several plates; blue cloth boards lettered gilt, a crisp, clean, pretty copy. Involves prediction and confirmation of planets Neptune and Uranus. History of technology monographs. More
Cat.No: 47671
[Honolulu]: Pacific Science Association, 1939. Pamphlet. pp.783-793, 6x9 inches, offprint pamphlet, a pencilled note states 1944, most probably an accession date, two line maps, rust around the staples, item opens rather stiffly, a good-only copy. Cover leaf bears a rubber-stamped "With compliments of Author." Underwater riverine troughs in the underwater..... More
Cat.No: 215768
Dublin: Kamac Publications, 1977. Revised edition, reprinted: 56p., numerous standard illustrations in b&w, softbound in 7.5x5 inch decorated wraps. Cover is slightly sunned along its spinefold, a clean, sound, unmarked copy. This cataloguer, by the way, dined on fresh mussels in the sole Protestant church building (never consecrated) on the..... More
Cat.No: 263306
Sydney: Hodder and Stoughton, 1970. Hardcover. 142p., illustrated with period sketches reproduced sepia on glazed inserted stock, hardbound first edition in black cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Faint mist of foxing to top edge, the only flaw we see to book itself, while the dust jacket..... More
Cat.No: 297027
Chicago: Publisher for the Newberry Library by The University of Chicago Press, 1946. Hardcover. xviii, 102p., inserted plates as called for, endsheet maps, first edition (thus) brown cloth boards titled gilt and panelled in blind, tinted top edge, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket is rather dust-soiled, has a bit of edgewear..... More
Cat.No: 155247
Ottawa: Edmond Clotier for Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, 1953. Paperback. v, 167p., 4.5x6.5 inches, preface, tables, appendixes, illustrations including a folding color map at rear, 4p. supplement laid-in, very good pocket-size paperback in red cloth over stiff wraps. More
Cat.No: 214174
Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1966. Pamphlet. 39p. (text & tables) + VII (plates diagrammatic and photographic plus a map with color onlay), large sewn pamphlet in plain printed 10.5x7 inch wraps. The terminal plate is a substantial fold-out, showing exposed face of quite a lot of..... More
Cat.No: 229673
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1878. Pamphlet. 16p., no illustrations or facsimiles, softbound first edition, a thread-tied pamphlet in 9x6 inch pale grey plain printed wraps. The thread is original and in fine shape. Covers are slightly edgeworn with occasional flecks of soil, nothing nasty, a very good copy: generally..... More
Cat.No: 303618
Washington DC: U.S. Geological Survey, 1971. Map, pamphlets. A fine large map in colors, 34.5x28 inches folded to mailing/handling size, 11.5x7 inches, along with two staplebound oblong pamphlets. The three related items together in a printed manila envelope, this envelope a little worn, the 3 items contained in it in..... More
Cat.No: 244843
Washington: Catholic Anthropological Conference, 1929. Pamphlet. pp.99-115, 7x10 inches, illustrated with figures and photos, light handling wear else very good in original stapled wraps. Publications of the Catholic Anthropological Conference. More
Cat.No: 112563
Porto Alegre: Edicoes da Faculdade de Filosofia, 1959. Paperback. 131p., index & errata leaf, sewn signatures with numerous tipped-in plates, folded maps and tables; paperbound in plain printed 8.5x5 inch buff wraps. A worn copy with a bit of handling soil, a cover smudge and a touch of silverfishing. Author..... More
Cat.No: 231902
San Francisco: San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, 1968. 79 p., 8.5 x 11 inch wraps in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 122967
n.p. Floating World Editions, 2005. Paperback. 116 pg. paperback, 6 x 9 inches, very good. Illustrated with b&w reproductions of Chinese paintings. A book on the Chinese taste in stones and scholar's rocks. More
Cat.No: 278377
Wageningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 1995. Paperback. 305p., illustrated with diagrams, stats and tables, main body of text in English (exclusively) and prefatory material in Dutch (exclusively). Presswork on bright-white alkaline paperstock, softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch glossy color wraps with a fine color-photo decoration, in very good condition. A hip study; author's..... More
Cat.No: 288489
Utrecht: Utrecht University, Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2006. Paperback. 227p., illustrated with diagrams and tables, many printed in colors (even the tables), text predominently in English with Dutch supplementary material and a multi-lingual bibliography, softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch color wraps. Slightly edgeworn, endsheets bear a few tiny flecks of..... More
Cat.No: 288492
San Francisco: San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, 1967. 34 p., 8.5 x 11 inch wraps in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 122969
