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By: W. & L.E. Gurley
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Mendham, New Jersey, Astragal Press: 1983
Edition: 5th or later Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000099
ISBN: 1879335344
Condition: Near Fine
Reprint of the 24th Edition, published in 1874. a manual and catalog of surveying and scientific instruments and supplies manufactured by the Gurley company. This company was in existence for 115 years before it was purchased by Telledyne and became known as Teledyne Gurley. Many drawings of scientific instruments.217 pages plus errata and index. View more info
By: Walter G. Kent
Price: $35.00
Publisher: London, England, Blades Easy & Blades: 1912
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000145
Condition: Very Good
Privately published. Pictorial cloth cover. Decorative linen pages sewn to binding. Rear cover shows minor scuffing, very minor dampstaining on several pages. Paper tipped in to front flyleaf states, "With the Author's Compliments." A concise summary of the achievements of two notable hydraulic engineers (Venturi and Herschel) and importance of their contributions to the field. An very interesting read. 34 pages, including B&W photographs and drawings. Ex-libris, John Sinkankas with his bookplate on inside front cover. This publication was acquired as part of a large purchase of ephemera tha... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Ajo, Arizona, Forrest R. Rickard: 1996
Seller ID: 000089
Condition: Near Fine
Pictorial cover. Minor scuffing to front cover, some creasing in lower left portion of rear cover. This book chronicles the development of the copper mines of Ajo, Arizona from the 1700's to 1942, and focuses on the exploits of General John Campbell Greenway, who is widely credited as the driving force behind modern copper mining in Ajo. Well researched, with many B&W photos, maps and line drawings of the mines, district and town. 348 pages. View more info
By: Gerhard Darmer
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold: 1992
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000036
ISBN: 0442009437
Condition: Very Good
English translation of the German book "Landshaft and Tagebau, first published in 1979. Edited by Norman L. Dietrich. Slight bumping to cover, otherwise near fine condition. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Santiago, Chile, Braden Copper Company: 1960
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000096
Condition: Good
In Spanish. Library-bound in red buckram. Library markings crossed out on spine, inside back cover and along the page edges. Account of the geology, mineralogy and mining at the El Cobre copper mine in Chile. Braden Copper Company was a subsidiary of Kennecott Copper Corporation. 81 pages, including many tables of statistics and information. View more info
By: Harrison S. Cobb
Price: $80.00
Publisher: Boulder, Colorado, The Book Lode: 1988
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000088
ISBN: 0961779934
Condition: Near Fine
Pictorial cover. Very slight wear along edges of cover and spine. A solidly researched publication on the mines and mills of Boulder County, Colorado, written by a man who had mined this region for many years, and at one point served as president of the Colorado Mining Association. Numerous B&W photos and maps. 153 pages. View more info
By: Estelle Cremers
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Elverson, PA, Redding Furnace Press: 1986
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000097
Condition: Very Good
Pictorial cover. Some scuffing of cover, remnants of price sticker on upper back cover. Bookplate on inner front cover, "Geoscience Library of Jay Lininger, Dillsburg (Pennsylvania)." Jay was the publisher of Matrix: A Journal of the History of Minerals. This is a history of Chester County, Pennsylvania as it related to the iron mining and smelting industry, focusing on the Reading Furnace (1736-1778). Well illustrated with numerous color and B&W photographs, as well as maps, diagrams and correspondence. 194 pages. View more info
Price: $120.00
Publisher: Ashland, Ohio, Bookmasters, Inc.: 2008
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 000087
ISBN: 0615216951
Condition: Near Fine
Very small bumps to two corners else fine cover and contents. History of the mines near Ogden, Utah in the vicinity of Willard and Ben Lomond Peaks. Well documented mining history of a relatively obscure mining district. 250 pages with a CD-ROM in the rear pocket. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Buffalo, NY, Wendt-Squires, Inc.: 1955
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000098
Condition: Good
Pictorial cover. Cover has some stains and front cover and first few pages have a tear in upper right corner. Contents very good. Rare brochure (1950's?) on a electronic device, called a Time Analyzer, that analyzes watches using a CRT, microphone and oscilloscope to diagnose problems. 12 pages plus a separate 4 page trifold brochure on the device. Brochure has two 1' tears along the folds. View more info
