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Scenery, Science and Art: being Extracts from the Note-Book of a Geologist and Mining Engineer

By: Ansted, D. T. (Professor)

Price: NZ$229.50

Publisher: London, John Van Voorst: 1854

Seller ID: 12818

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Upper 3" of spine cloth detached and glued back onto spine. Lower 1/2" of spine cloth missing. Front inner hinge broken. Frontispiece detached. Previous owner's signature erased from title page, with an earlier signature erased.; viii, 323 pages + 4 lithograph plates (including frontispiece) + 4 pages advertisements. Original blind-stamped green cloth boards. Page dimensions: 221 x 137mm. With 21 in-text figures. Contents cover France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, the Island of Sardinia, Africa, and America. The chapters on America are: New York and Pittsburg; The Ohio and Kanawha Valleys, and...
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A First Book of Mineralogy adapted to the requirements of the Science and Art Department. And suitable for self-instruction.

By: Collins, J. H.

Price: NZ$37.80

Publisher: London, William Collins, Sons, & Co.: [1873]

Seller ID: 12806

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Rubbing to ends of spine. Tiny 1/8" chips to cloth at tips of corners of boards. Previous owner's signature on title page.; No date [1873]. 160 pages. Green cloth boards with black lettering and decoration on front board. Page dimensions: 164 x 108mm. Advertisements on endpapers. With many small in-text illustrations, including several wood-engravings, showing the shapes of crystals. ; Collins' Elementary Science Series; 16mo
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James Hutton - Present and Future

By: Craig, G. Y. & J. H. Hull (eds.)

Price: NZ$67.50

Publisher: London, The Geological Society: 1999

Seller ID: 12833

ISBN: 1862390266

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

No signatures. ; viii, 184 pages. Pictorial papered boards. Page dimensions: 246 x 168mm. Illustrated. "The Collection of papers in this volume commemorates the bicentenary death of James Hutton, the founder of modern geology. Eminent Earth scientists and science historians celebrate his unique contribution to the knowledge of our planets history and his influence on modern geological thinking."'- from blurb on rear cover. Various contributors. Contents: McIntyre, D. B. - James Hutton?s Edinburgh: a precis ? Anderson, D. L. - A theory of the Earth: Hutton and Humpty-Dumpty and Holmes ? Wyllie...
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Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs

By: Dean, Dennis R.

Price: NZ$81.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: (1999)

Seller ID: 12802

ISBN: 0521420482

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

No signatures. No tears to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; xix, [1], 290 page. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 227 x 150mm. Illustrated. A "thorough but accessible biography - the first scholarly one - of a pioneering dinosaur hunter and paleontologist whose legendary achievements have been portrayed - not always accurately - in dozens of popular books about dinosaurs." - from dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo
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Travels Through the Alps

By: Forbes, James D.

Price: NZ$243.00

Publisher: London, Adam and Charles Black: 1900

Seller ID: 12817

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Quite heavy rubbing to spine and boards. Some chips to cloth at ends of spine and along edges of corners of boards. Inner hinges broken. 3" split along gutter of front endpaper. Creasing and rubbing to the margins of the frontispiece plate. Foxing to the frontispiece plate. One of the folding maps has some chips and tears to the blank outer margin. No tears to the folding maps in the pocket at the rear. No signatures.; "New Edition, Revised and Annotated by W. A. B. Coolidge". xxxviii, [2], 572 pages + 6 folding maps (of which 2 are in the pocket at the rear) + in-text illustrations. Original ...
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The Founders of Geology

By: Geikie, Archibald (Sir)

Price: NZ$216.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 12799

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Rubbing and flecking to cloth boards. Gutters split at inner hinges. Previous owner's signatures, "J T Jutson" (Australian geologist 1885-1959), "J. J. Jenkin". A few spots of foxing. ; xi, [1], 486 pages + [2] pages advertisements. Blue cloth boards. Page dimensions: 226 x 141mm. "Presentation Copy" circular blindstamp on the title page. This is the second edition, considerably expanded from the first edition of 1897. "While retaining and also enlarging the more detailed discussion of the remarkable period embraced in the original lectures, I have given a sketch of the earlier progress of ge...
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Whatever is Under the Earth: The Geological Society of London 1807 to 2007

By: Herries Davies, Gordon L.

Price: NZ$78.30

Publisher: London, The Geological Society: 2007

Seller ID: 17748

ISBN: 1862392145

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

No signatures. ; xiii, [1], 356 pages +11 colour illustrations on 4 plate leaves. Pictorial papered boards. Large format hardcover book. Page dimensions: 245 x 169mm. Illustrated. A history of the Geological Society of London. "The Geological Society has much to be proud of in its two hundred years of history. Not only is it the oldest society of its kind in the world, but it has also seen many of the important developments in the science played out within its premises. Gordon Herries Davies has expertly and entertainingly laid out this narrative for us, steering a skilful course between the ...
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Papers and Notes on the Glacial Geology of Great Britain and Ireland

By: Lewis, Henry Carvill; edited and with an Introduction by Henry W. Crosskey

Price: NZ$135.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and Co.: 1894

Seller ID: 12811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Spine leather dry and brittle. 3/4" chip to spine leather. 3/4" chip to the upper spine label. Lacking the half-title page. No signatures.; lxxxxi, 469 pages + 10 colour maps (8 folding). Half leather binding. Marbled endpapers. Page dimensions: 224 x 144mm. Illustrated with 82 figures in the text. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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The Earth Inside and Out: Some Major Contributions to Geology in the Twentieth Century

By: Oldroyd, David R. (ed.)

Price: NZ$175.50

Publisher: London, The Geological Society: 2002

Seller ID: 12829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Previous owner's signatures on front endpaper. Small 1/4" knock to page edges, affecting half a dozen leaves slightly. ; vi, 369 pages. Pictorial papered boards. Page dimensions: 248 x 170mm. Illustrated. "The book offers a conspectus of important developments in the earth sciences in the twentieth century. The introductory essay considers features of twentieth-century geoscience as a whole (and science more generally), including general trends within geology and its associated disciplines; and it reviews secondary literature on twentieth-century geology. The contributed essays span detailed d...
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Mineralogy

By: Rutley, Frank

Price: NZ$54.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Murby: (1894)

Seller ID: 12805

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Cloth worn and torn at ends of spine. 1/2" tear to cloth at head of front joint. Previous owner's signature "C. F. Sims [18]95".; Sixth edition, revised and corrected. [2 (advertisements)], viii, 241, [1], [4 (advertisements)] pages. Blind-stamped brown cloth boards. Page dimensions: 161 x 99mm. With many small in-text illustrations showing the shapes of crystals. Series title: "Murby's 'Science and Art Department' Series of Text-Books." Blind-stamped title on front board: "Murby's Science Series Elements of Mineralogy". Rutley (1842-1904) was an English geologist, and a lecturer on Mineralogy...
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Mineralogy

By: Rutley, Frank

Price: NZ$32.40

Publisher: London, Thomas Murby: (1900)

Seller ID: 12807

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Previous owner's signature. Some foxing. Some underlining and marginalia in pencil. ; Twelfth edition, revised and corrected. (x), 240 pages. Brown cloth boards with black decoration. Page dimensions: 168 x 111mm. With many small in-text illustrations showing the shapes of crystals. Series title: "Murby's 'Science and Art Department' Series of Text-Books." Title on front board: "Murby's Science Series Elements of Mineralogy". Rutley (1842-1904) was an English geologist, and a lecturer on Mineralogy at the Royal College of Science, London. ; 16mo
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Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand. A Report comprising the Results of Offical Explorations.

By: von Haast, Julius (1822-1887)

Price: NZ$675.00

Publisher: Christchurch, Printed at the "Times" Office, Gloucester Street and Cathedral Square: 1879

Seller ID: 22137

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Cloth boards rubbed and flecked . Spine faded. Split to gutter at rear hinge. Minor spots of foxing. Label on front endpaper "The Epsom Trust". ; Uncommon. ix, [3], 486 pages + folding frontispiece + 4 maps (3 folding) + 11 plates of geological sections + 9 folding plates of Views (several of glaciers, one of the gorge of the Rakaia river, one of the skeleton of a Moa, Dinornis Maximus, compared with that of a Chatham Islands Moriori. Original maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 133mm. Aside from the geological aspects, the work for this book invol...
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