no city {Vosges): the spa, or spa collective, no date, circa 1890. 28p., coated alkaline paperstock throughout with presswork in orange and black, profuse b&w photoillustrations, a sewn softbound: cord-fastened pamphlet in 8x4.5 inch grey wraps titled by embossed gilt. Nice copy. Front cover has mild handling signs: a very..... More
Cat.No: 250575
no place [Washington DC?]: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park / National Park Service, no date, circa 1980. Paperback. 75p., line maps (some with spot-color guides), tables and b&w site photos, 11x8.5 inch leaves softbound in utilitarian fashion (punchholed for a plastic comb but stapled instead), covers have picked up mild soil..... More
Cat.No: 240208
Sandpoint: Sandpoint High School, no date. 80p., 7.5x10.75 inches, 2 maps (1 laid-in), a couple of photos, in original stapled pictorial wraps, entire booklet is somewhat damp-rippled and bent, but luckily dried clean. More
Cat.No: 107500
Lancaster PA: The Jaques Cattell Press, 1944. ix, 97p., red cloth boards in dj, jacket rather rubbed, an otherwise all-round good copy. More
Cat.No: 165523
Rotorua NZ: D. W. Smith. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about sixteen pages, illustrated from profuse b&w period photography, captionless but coordinated with running text. Softbound, an oversize oblong pamphlet in 8x11 inch decorated wraps (displays a colorized photo of the eruption); somewhat crimped with handling, cover bears faint small stains, clean and..... More
Cat.No: 244788
Buenos Aires: Carbometal, S.A. Ind. y Com. n.d., mid 1950s. A half-inch pile of folded mappings of the province of Mendoza, most of these fold out to 20x56 inches, folded measuring 14x8.5 inches. Dividers amongst them, and a ribbon-copy TLs on Carbometal letterhead addressed to an English-speaking investor, one Joseph..... More
Cat.No: 251237
Harare: Issue by Authority, 1991. [ix]+220p., 8.25x11.75 inches, color frontis, preface, introduction, area, methods of study, terminology, previous geological work, outline, references, appendices, illustrated with color plates, b&w maps, figures and tables, and two huge full-color 1: 100 000 scale geological maps folded into a pocket at rear (undamaged), very..... More
Cat.No: 98869
Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, The Natural History - Geographical Subject Group, 1972. 439p., in-text illustrations from photography, diagrammatic sketches, and maps; softbound in 9.2x6.7 inch wraps, cover shows slight edgewear and handling soil, a clean, sound, very good copy. More
Cat.No: 190014
San Francisco: Pacific Division AAAS, 1994. Hardcover. vi, 336p., preface, epilog, chapter notes, references, index, illustrated with glossy plates from b&w photographs, limited first edition of 500 copies bound in red cloth boards and gilt. Has a mildly musty smell, otherwise a clean sound very good copy. Chicago-born and raised..... More
Cat.No: 214140
San Francisco: State of California Department of Naturla Resources Division of Mines, 1953. Hardcover. 61p., photos and maps, four folded maps (2 in color) in pocket at rear, 9x6 inch hardbound, very good in original buckram. The b&w photos show badlands galore, these in central California, San Joaquin County the..... More
Cat.No: 117181
San Juan PR: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico / Duke University, 1995. Paperback. xviii, 193p., illustrated with numerous b&w site photos, diagrams, line maps and tables. Softbound in oblong 8x10 inch photo-decorated wraps, absolutely clean, sound and unmarked, a very good copy. Living with the shore series. More
Cat.No: 241192
Rio de Janeiro - RJ: Capemi Editora e Grafica Ltda. 1982. 120p., illustrated with a few line maps, paperbound in 8x5.5 inch glossy blue frenchfold wraps; cello-glaze has a couple tiny bubbles on the back cover, clean and sound, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 192927
[Palo Alto]: Stanford University, 1926. 100p., vignette photos, 8.5x6.5 inch staplebound textblock under printed cardstock wraps and a binder's-tape spine (as issued). a very good, clean copy. No fewer than four different "Hoovers" listed. Also lists particulars of a "Louisiana section," for reasons unexplained. No sports pix, or theatre activity..... More
Cat.No: 163342
San Francisco: Pacific Division/American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1979. Paperback. 493p., coated paperstock illustrated with charts, maps and diagrams; softbound in 10x7 inch decorated wraps. Mild external signs of wear, top edge has a couple light bumps, ownership name of [A. Starker] Leopold on cover (he was a...... More
Cat.No: 221208
New York: The Witkin Gallery, Inc., 1991. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about 22p., introduction, vita and perhaps 16 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 (except our SKU), a very good copy. Lots of aerial..... More
Cat.No: 228699
San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft & Co., 1868. xvi+696p., introductory, illustrated with 16 wood-engraved plates, front hinge cracked, rear hinge weak with short split, extremities show a little card, title leaf split one inch at the tail, fair-only copy of the first edition, a massive 10x7 inch tome bound in..... More
Cat.No: 106239
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
Carlsbad: Self-published by the author, 1928. [44p] 6.75x10 inches, history of the caverns, illustrated with drawings and 4 pages of glossy b&w photos, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 181258
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
Philadelphia: SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1983. Hardcover. xii, 186p., hardbound in 9.5x6.5 inch tan cloth boards titled brown. Externally, the cloth is a little dust- and handling-soiled, but hinges and all are perfectly sound; interior is absolutely clean and unmarked. A good to very good copy. More
Cat.No: 235257
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
San Francisco: Division of Mines, 1952. 240p., 10.25x8.75 inches oblong, introduction, index, illustrated throughout with maps, diagrammatic drawings, and photos with numerous aerial shots; find 3 folded maps in rear pocket, very good in green cloth. More
Cat.No: 155007
San Francisco: A. Roman & Company, 1863. Hardcover. xvi, 464p., first edition in 8x5.5 inch diced brown cloth boards. Top and tail rims are frayed with short tears, and one corner-tip shows card and frayed cloth; also, the entire spine panel is sunned, evenly, with near-total dimming of titling. Besides..... More
Cat.No: 240835
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
New York: Geological Society of America, 1957. 212p., maps (substantial ones, one in color) are folded and tucked into a pocket at rear, this thick packet leading to slight warping of the hardcover boards; ownership stamps of a University of California geologist on front endpaper. Special paper 64. More
Cat.No: 164896
