Search Results: Geology, Opal, Lapidary from Lawrence Jones

Canberra: Department of Development. BUREAU OF MINERAL RESOURCES, GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS., 1962. 36pp, tables, large folding chart at rear. Or card covers. Very light edge wear.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

St. Paul, Minnesota: The Pioneer Press, 1901. 88 paltes (maps) with accompanying text (approx 220pp in total). Or green cloth with gilt vignette to front. A few very minor marks to cloth. Presentation slip from Minnesota State geologist to Geological Survey of N Queensland inside front cover. Unobtrusive stamps of Geological Survey of Queensland on several pages not affecting maps, similarly unobtrusive cancelled stamps on those same pages. Many pages unopened. Internally the pages/maps are all clean and in excellent condition. Published some years after the original 5 volumes of the survey, the atlas volume is extremely scarce.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. Folio.

Canberra: Department of National Development., 1958. 117pp text + 145 bw ills + numerous folding maps/diagams etc; references, appendices. Or wraps. Ex-Australian Academy of Sciences library with few unobtrusive stamps (including cancelled stamp). Minor edge wear to covers. Detailed analysis and observations of the 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 1994. HEAVY. 224pp, glossary, 104 plates (most col), patterned endpapers. Black cloth in jacket. A little fading to spine, light edge wear to jacket. Three top jewellery designers write onthe subject with a discussion of design princliples, progressive detailed sketches and finished drawings of many varieties of ring and earring designs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1967. xvi398pp, index, bibliography, bw & col ills. Or cloth, lacking jacket. Surface damage to edges of cloth, joint starting to crack at half-title, stamp on half-title and prev owners name etc on front free endpaper. Not the greatest looking copy but complete and intact. A classic in the subject.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 4to.

Sydney: Australian Gem Industry Association, 1987. 24pp, col ills, map. Pictorial stapled card. Light edge wear. Attractive booklet highlighting Australia's gemstones.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: Cassell Australia, 1977. 188pp. Or brown cloth in jacket. Slight foxng to page edges. SIGNED by author with non-personalised inscription on title page. The author writes with personal experience of opal mining in just such a remote community as Sunday Creek, the setting for this novel. Life in a small opal mining community.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Melbourne: CSIRO, 1961. 59pp text + 30 bw plates, references, tables. Or card. Some toning to edges.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Carina: Robert Brown & Associates, 1991. 285 x 15 mm, 24 pp, illustrated throughout in full colour. Illustrated stapled light card wrapper. Four detachable postcards still attached to the rear cover. Profile of the author, opal authority and photographer, Len Cram by Gan Bruce. Author's first book. The book covers Mounted black opals; solids, doublets and triplets; colour patterns; pseudomorph opalization; Lightning Ridge: home of the black opal; a few myths and facts about opal; Queensland: home of the boulder opal; boulder opal; Queenssland matrix; Coober Pedy: home of the light opal. . Signed by Author(s). Fourth Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Lightning Ridge: The Author, 1995. 286 x 210 mm, 32 pp, illustrated throughout in full colour, full-page map at the inside rear cover. Paroo Shire Council advertisement at the inside front cover. There are two pages of four detachable postcards, one at the front and one at the book. Illustrated light card cover lightly worn at the spine and corners. The book covers Yowah history, as a tourist destination, the Eulo Queen, opal mining in Yowah; The Black Gate; Koroit. and Holloways. SIGNED by Len Cram. SECOND copy available with Outback Gems imprint. SIGNED by Len Cram. . Signed by Author(s). First edition.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Buranda: Robert Brown & Associates, 1992. 4to (288 x 214 mm), 28 pp, illustrated throughout in full colour. Illustrated light card stapled wrapper with a map at the inside rear cover. Four detachable postcards still attached to the rear cover.Big Winch advertisement on the inside front cover with an Australian Opal Mines stamp by the upper corner. The book covers Coober Pedy Desert Opal; Opalisation; Geology; Solids, doublets, triplets; Andamooka, Mintabie and White Cliffs. SIGNED by Len Cram. . Signed by Author(s). First edition.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Switzerland: Opal & Gem Import, 1994. 4to, 24 pp, full colour illustrations throughout. WITH four detachable colour postcards folded in from rear cover. German language version of Beautiful Australian Opals. Out of Print. Scarce. SIGNED by Len Cram. Illustrated stapled light card cover.. Signed by Author(s). Soft Cover. Fine.

Carina: Robert Brown & Associates, 1990. 285 x 15 mm, 24 pp, illustrated throughout in full colour. Illustrated stapled light card wrapper. Four detachable postcards still attached to the rear cover. Profile of the author, opal authority and photographer, Len Cram by Gan Bruce. Author's first book. The book covers Mounted black opals; solids, doublets and triplets; colour patterns; pseudomorph opalization; Lightning Ridge: home of the black opal; a few myths and facts about opal; Queensland: home of the boulder opal; boulder opal; Queenssland matrix; Coober Pedy: home of the light opal. Scarce.. Signed by Author(s). First edition.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Lightning Ridge: The Author, 2001. 298 x 210 mm, 32 pp, illustrated throughout in full colour, map of NSW on the inside rear cover. SIGNED by the author. Light edge wear to cover. A colourful look a the history of the town and opal mining at Lightning Ridge. . Signed by Author(s). Special Centenary Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. xii, 272pp, index, glossary, diagrams. Or card. Solid bump to bottom corner.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo.

Urangan, Qld.: GP Creations, 1999. 204pp, num color ills, bw diagrams, glossary, maps, VHS tape. Or pictorial laminated boards in jacket with VHS video tape in publishers box. Books and tape as new, some minor wear to box. SIGNED by author on title page. Comprehensive account of the nature, finding, cutting and orientating of black opal including production of doublets and triplets, mining, Lightning Ridge opal fields, solids, maps of several opal fields and much more. Suitable for the beginner or the expert.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Cairns: Opal Press Publishing, 2014. Unpaginated (approx 30pp), col photographs, map. Or pictorial laminated boards. Near new apart from opal dealers card stapled to front free endpaper. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Oblong 8vo.

Hobart: Oldham, Beddome and Meredith [distributors], 1944. 164pp. Pictorial green on gray jacket attached at spine over plain wraps. Covers creased near spine, tear at front flap fold, bookseller stamp on title page, page edges evenly toned and light foxing to prelims. Tales of early Australia including the opal fields, Pilbara and other Western Australian goldfields, Aborigines, and more.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Honiara, Solomon Islands.: By Authority of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, 1965. 232pp, index, graphs, diagrams, maps (including several folding), errata slip laid in at front. Or blue cloth. Some fairly minor silverfishing to cloth, spine split at top of rear spine edge, bumped at bottom corner, prev owner name (?) blacked out on front free endpaper. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 4to.

Adelaide: Investigator Press, 1982. 248pp, index, bibliography, map, num bw ills. Or pictorial laminated boards (cover art by Pro Hart). Minor toning to page edges. Looks at all aspects of Broken Hill's hisotry including the Aborigines, explorers, settlers, prospectors, the mines, community development, miners, transport (inc bullock teams and camels), water supply and the syndicate of seven.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Small 4to.