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Annals Of the Former World
by 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
by 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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De Re Metallica
by 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
by 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.
Gemstones Of the World -- Revised and Expanded Edition
by Walter Schumann
English translation of: Edelsteine und Schmucksteine.
Includes index.
Includes index.
Geology Books & Ephemera
Assembling California: 4 (Annals of the Former World)
by McPhee, John
Paperback. Very Good.
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NZ$7.73
Southeastern Section Field Guide
Geological Society of America, 1986. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$12.07
Geological structures
by Pellant, C. & H
Bloomsbury, 2016. 1st edition. Paper covers. Fine/No Jacket. Scarcely used.
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NZ$10.65
A history and bibliography of the study of fossil vertebrate footprints in the British Isles
by Sargeant, W.A
Elsevier, 1974. Offprint from Palaeo journal vol. 16 no. 4. Paper covers, plastic clip bound. Good/No Jacket. Author's inscription.
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NZ$76.66
Mississippi Agricultural Limestone (Mississippi Geological Bulletin 46), & Adams County Mineral Resources (Mississippi Geological Bulletin 47)
by Franklin Earl Vestal, Thomas Edwin McCutcheon, Frederic Francis Mellen
University: Mississippi State Geological Survey, 1942. Softcover. Ex-Library. 1942 First Edition. Softcover. Fair. Ex-Library with standard markings. Wearing on covers and spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. Includes Bulletin 46 and 47. Bulletin 47 contains an original foldout map still attached. Bulletin 46, 20p. Bulletin 47, 200p.
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NZ$27.15
Paleoecology and depositional environment of Fort Hays limestone member, Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous), West-central Kansas
by Frey, R
University of Kansas Publications, 1972. Article 58 (Cretaceous 3). Paper covers. Fine/No Jacket. 72 pp., 15 plates at rear.
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NZ$51.11
Geological terrace
by Silvester, N.L
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, 1967. 3rd edition. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.
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NZ$17.04
The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man With remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation
by Charles Lyell
London: John Murray, 1863. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. 528 pages. Green cloth.Three editions of this title were published in the year of its publication, this is the 2nd edition published April 1863. The first edition was published February 1863. The 2nd edition introduces an appendix which was not present in the 1st edition. This copy has been rebacked with a new spine of which the original cloth is attached to. New endpapers. Rubbing and some loss to edges of the cloth. Some...
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NZ$221.29
Elemenatary Geology Applied to Prospecting
by Walker, John F
Victoria : Department of Mines , 1955 . Fifth . . . Illustrated in black and white with a number of foldouts including large chart at the rear for field identification of minerals. Light wear, owner's signature on cover.
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NZ$13.62
Geophysics, realism, and industry
by Arduaga, A
Oxford University Press, 2016. 1st edition. Pictorial hard covers. Fine/No Jacket. Scarcely used.
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NZ$51.11
Fossicker's Guide to Gold, Minerals and Gemstones of South Australia
by Dallow, Len
East Malvern: Gemcraft Publications. 1983. Oblong Octavo Size [approx 22x15cm].. Very Good condition. Black & white Maps. Uniformly faded cover. Some minor marks to interior. Small stain to top of rear cover. Scarce! 148 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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NZ$328.22
Outlines of palaeontology
by Swinnerton, H.H
London: Edward Arnold, 1930. 2nd edition. Hard covers. V.g./No Jacket. Prize bookplate. Little used. x, 420 pp.
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NZ$25.55
Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1903
by DAY, David T
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1904. Hardcover. First edition. Acceptable first edition hardcover is rubbed at the spine ends and corners, 2 inch tear along front top edge of spine with a crease across the front cover, corners lightly bent, the first approx. 300 pages (of 1204 pages) have a 1/2 inch tear at the top edge near the spine, text is clean.
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NZ$34.04
Sédimentologie et Paléoécologie due Muschelkalk Superieur et de la Lettenkohle (Trias Germanique) de l’Est de la France (etc.)
by Duringer, P
Institut de Géologie, Strasbourg, 1982. 1st edition. Paper covers. Fine/No Jacket. Thesis. Signed by owner and with author’s address on front cover. 96 pp. plus 11 plates at rear.
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NZ$59.63
Animals and plants of the Cenozoic era
by Pearson, Ronald
Butterworths, London, 1964. 1st edition. Hard covers, no dust jacket. Good/No Jacket. Author's signature on ffep; at least one pencil correction in text. Front hinge starting. vii, 236 pp.
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NZ$42.59
The Opal Book
by Leechman, Frank
Ure Smith, 1961. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$14.37
A MANUAL OF ELEMENTARY GEOLOGY; By Sir Charles Lyell, M.A. F.R.S. / Revised from the Sixth Edition, Greatly Enlarged / Illustrated with 750 Woodcuts
by Lyell, Sir Charles
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1858. Sixth and final expanded, corrected American edition. Decorative embossed cloth. Very Good/None [Archival clear polyester sleeve added]. Wood engravings. Tall and thick 8vo (9 1/2' x 6 3/8"), original publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine, illustrated with frontispiece (tissue guard) and 750 woodcuts, xvi + 685 pages [1] blank, [2] Ads. Weight: 2 lbs. 13 oz. Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, FRS (1797 - 1875) was a...
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NZ$331.93
A catalogue of the recent sea-urchins (Echinoidea) in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History)
by Clark, H.L
Trustees of the British Museum, 1925. 1st edition. Publisher's cloth. V.g./No Jacket. Complete with 12 plates. xxviii, 250 pp.
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NZ$127.77
How the earth works, block 4: Evolution of continental crust
by Harris, N
Open University Press, 2000. Reprint of 1997 edition. Paper covers. Fine/No Jacket. Scarcely used.
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NZ$51.11
Dinosaur in a haystack
by Gould, S.J
Jonathan Cape, 1996. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.
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NZ$17.04
Lexicon of geologic names of the United States for 1936-1960 : a compilation of the geologic names of the United States, its possessions, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Panama Canal Zone
by Keroher, Grace C. ; Geological Survey (U.S.)
Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1966. Hardcover. Fine with extremely faint sun-fading to spines, a wee bit of crinkling to spine foot of Vol 3; owner name neatly written in ink to front paste-downs of all three volumes, and a "Public Property" stamp to same but of Vol 1 only. No other markings. Tight and crisp overall.. Three small thick quartos volumes red-brown polished cloth (iv, 4341 pages) ; 24 cm. Scarce thus, complete in a set of three volumes. A highly detailed...
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NZ$383.00
British regional geology: The Pennines and adjacent areas
by Wray, D.A
HMSO, 1948. 2nd edition. Paper covers. Good/No Jacket. Library stamp on cover.
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NZ$12.78
Green colliery spoil banks in the Ruhr / Grüne Halden im Ruhrgebiet / Terrils miniers amenagées en espaces verts dans la Ruhr
by Ruhrkohlenbezirk
Siedlungsverband Ruhrkohlenbezirk, 1974. 1st edition. Paper covers. Good /No Jacket. Produced at an international special congress on "Mine spoil heaps in the Ruhr and their integration in the landscape"; illustrated with monochrome and colour photographs. 224 p.
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NZ$85.18
Mines and their story
by Mannix, B
Sidgwick & Jackson, 1913. 1st edition. Pictorial hard covers. V.g./No Jacket. Slight edge wear; a few carelessly opened folios. xviii, 337 pp.
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NZ$68.14
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