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By: Samuel Robinson
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Rochester, NY, Rochester Mineralogical Symposium: 1989
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Seller ID: 000086
Condition: Near Fine
Unabridged facsimile reprint of original 1825 edition. Some creasing along spine, and small price sticker blemish on upper right of front cover. Covers mineral localities, "including all which are known to exist in the United States and British Provinces, and having the towns, counties, and districts in each state and province arranged alphabetically. With an Appendix, containing additional localities and a tabular view." 316 pages. View more info
By: Dante S. Lauretta and Marvin Killgore
Price: $98.00
Publisher: Tucson, AZ, Golden Retriever Publications: 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000009
ISBN: 0972047212
Condition: New
Very well illustrated and descriptive book on meteorite in thin section. Includes ordinary chondrites, enstatite chondrites, carbonaceous chondrites, "other" chondrites, primitive achondrites, and evolved achondrites. Beautiful photographs. View more info
By: John Holfert, Water Mroch and Jeremy Fuller
Price: $40.00
Publisher: HM Publishing: 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
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Seller ID: 000013
Condition: New
A detailed account of the geology, minerals and collecting areas in the Thomas Range (Topaz Mountain) locality. Contains excellent collecting area maps and collecting tips to find the gems and minerals in this famous mineral location. View more info
Price: $70.00
Publisher: Washington, D.C., U. S. Government Printing Office: 1902
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000199
Condition: Very Good
USGS Professional Paper 2. Professionally rebound in red buckram with gold lettering on spine and front cover. New endpapers and flyleafs. Ex-library, with a stamped library card pocket on rear flyleaf. Title page (original) has several small tears (approx. 1/4" each) and one tape repair to a tear approx. 1" long. Rear page has a library card pocket and residual tape for a repair to the original back cover (no longer present). Contents very good. A geologic and economic geology survey of part of the Seward Peninsula, focusing on gold and tin deposits (placer). 70 pages with 12 plates,... View more info
Price: $70.00
Publisher: Washington, D.C., U. S. Government Printing Office: 1902
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000200
Condition: Very Good
USGS Professional Paper 2. Professionally rebound in red buckram with gold lettering on spine and front cover. New endpapers and flyleafs. . Title page (original) has one small tear (approx. 1/4" each) and some creasing.. Rear page has some rough edges, soiling, and a crease. Contents very good. A geologic and economic geology survey of part of the Seward Peninsula, focusing on gold and tin deposits (placer). 70 pages with 12 plates, including two 2 page color maps, 1 folding map in rear map pocket, and the balance are B&W photographs. View more info
By: Klaus F. Wellman
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Graz, Austria, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt: 1979
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000075
ISBN: 3201010960
Condition: Fine
Oversized, Dust jacket has library sticker on spine else fine. Cover and contents fine. Rare monograph on the petroglyphs and pictographs of North American Native Americans. Originally printed in German under the title "Die Amerikanischen Felsbilder." 750 photographs (including 39 in color), 200 line drawings and 11 maps. Extensive bibliography. 462 pages, including index. View more info
By: Roger Pabian, Brian Jackson, Peter Tandy and John Cromartie
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Buffalo, NY, Firefly Books: 2006
Edition: 1st Edition
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Seller ID: 000030
ISBN: 1554070988
Condition: New
A concise book on agates discussing formation, coloration, geology and types of agates, Beautifully illustrated with lots of worldwide agates discussed. More technical than many primers on agate in publication today. View more info
By: Gloria A. Staebler and Wendell E. Wilson (Editors)
Price: $275.00
Publisher: East Hampton, CT, Lithographie, LLC: 2008
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000111
ISBN: 097909982X
Condition: Near Fine
Pictorial cover. An homage to 44 premier mineral localities in the United States, including Franklin and Sterling Hill, NJ; Mt. Antero, CO; Sweet Home Mine, Alma, CO; Elmwood, TN; Hot Springs, AR; Butte, MT; Morenci Mine, AZ and the Bunker Hill Mine, ID. Profusely illustrated with high resolution color photographs make this volume a great reference work, as welll as a desirable "coffee table" book. 354 pages. 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 ephe... View more info
By: Norman L. Gilinsky and Phillip W. Signor
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Knoxville, TN, University of Tennessee, Knoxville: 1991
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000063
Condition: Very Good
Corners slightly bumped, some spotting on edge of pages, creasing on upper portion of spine. 13 articles on quantitative analysis in paleontology presented at a short course during the 1991 annual conference of the Paleontological Society. 216 pages. View more info
By: James H. Garbani
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Tucson, AZ, Arizona Territorial Trader: 1993
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000070
Condition: Fine
Includes a separate 32" x 20' reprint of Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts (1961) by the Arizona Bureau of Mines. Written for collectors of Arizona mining history (especially stock certificates). This book "lists 12,6000 mines and mining companies with their corresponding mining/mineral district of closest geographical location. All companies listed conducted mining in the Territory and/or State of Arizona between 1854-1954. Other features are black and white reproduction of many older stocks and bonds." From the publisher. 320 pages. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: 1949
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000148
Condition: Very Good
Pictorial covers, slight creasing on front cover and a 1/4' tear at bottom. Catalog for a traveling exhibition of art from the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna to several museums in the United States, as part of a post-WWII cultural exchange. 67 pages plus 43 B&W photographs of exhibit objects including paintings, bronzees, armor, tapestries, lapidary arts and cameos. Ex-libris John Sinkankas (PeriLithon Books), with his bookplate on inner front cover. This publication was acquired as part of a large purchase of ephemera that had been in the inventory of John Sinkankas (PeriLithon Books) af... View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: New York, NY, Consultants Bureau: 1961
Edition: 2nd Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000119
Condition: Good
Authorized translation from the Russian "Autigennye Mineraly Osadochnykh Porod," published in 1958. Lower spine has small remnant of library sticker, front and rear cover are creased. Library stamps on interior of front and back covers. Contents very good. 37 B&W photos and diagrams. 120 pages including bibliography. View more info
By: Rudolf Magula and Tibor Turcan
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Kosice, Slovakia, Argentura Vizual: 1995
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000113
ISBN: 8088674190
Condition: Near Fine
Written in Czech and German. Published in German as "Grubenlampen: Geschichte und Entwicklung unter den Bedingungen des Bergbaus auf dem Gebeit der Slowaskei." Front cover lightly scuffed, rear cover shows some scuffing and scratches. Interior in fine condition. An interesting history and compilation of mine lighting devices from Central Europe. Includes candlesticks, carbide lamps and electric lamps. Great historical drawings and B&W and color photos of the lamps. 123 pages. View more info
By: Len Cram
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Buranda, Qld, Australia, Robert Brown & Associates: 1992
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 000055
ISBN: 1862730660
Condition: Near Fine
Beautifully illustrated publication on the opal mines of the central desert region of Australia, and includes the famous opal fields of Coober Pedy, White Cliffs, Andamooka, and Mintabie.Covers the opal districts, types of opal found, mining methods, history and miners of the opal fields. Written by the prolific opal author Len Cram. This publication includes 4 beautiful tear-out postcards (attached) featuring beautiful opal gemstones, and a map of the region and opal fields. 28 pages. View more info
By: Len Cram
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Buranda, Qld, Australia, Robert Brown & Associates: 1990
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 000059
ISBN: 1862730326
Condition: Very Good
Beautifully illustrated publication emphasizing precious opals from Lightning Ridge and Queensland (boulder opal). Has a nice section on assembled stones (doublets and triplets) and also discusses color patterns, history and pseudomorphs. 4 color postcards are attached in the back 24 pages. View more info
By: Len Cram
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Buranda, Qld, Australia, Robert Brown & Associates: 1993
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 000060
ISBN: 1862730512
Condition: Near Fine
Beautifully illustrated publication on the precious opal of Lightning Ridge. Discusses the history, geography, color patterns and personalities of this great gem field. $ color postcards are attached in the back. 32 pages. View more info
By: Len Cram
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Buranda, Qld, Australia, Robert Brown & Associates: 1991
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 000061
ISBN: 1862730512
Condition: Near Fine
Beautifully illustrated publication on the precious opal of Lightning Ridge. Discusses the history, geography, color patterns and personalities of this great gem field. $ color postcards are attached in the back. 28 pages. View more info
By: Len Cram
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Buranda, Qld, Australia, Robert Brown & Associates: 1991
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Seller ID: 000058
ISBN: 1862730571
Condition: Fine
Well illustrated publication on beauty and variety of Queensland opals. Includes a discussion of the major mining districts and their history, as well as 4 opal postcards (attached) and a map of the Queensland opal fields. 28 pages. View more info
By: Len Cram
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Lightning Ridge, NSW, Australia, Len Cram: 1995
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 000054
ISBN: 0646260073
Condition: Near Fine
Front and back covers scuffed, with slight crease in front cover. Well illustrated publication on the opal mines of the area around Cunnamulla in Queensland, Australia. Known for the Yowah, Koroit and East Gate opal fields, this area produces beautiful boulder opal found in Cretaceous ancient sandstones in an ironstone matrix. Describes the types of opal found, mining methods, history and miners of the opal fields. Written by the prolific opal author Len Cram. This publication includes 4 beautiful tear-out postcards (attached) featuring beautiful opal gemstones, and a map of the opal Distri... View more info
By: Jack A. Redden
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Washington, D.C., U. S. Government Printing Office: 1959
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000180
Condition: Very Good
USGS Bulletin 1072-I. Paper wraps, slight creasing along back cover, minor sunning to spine and edges. Site specific reference on the Beecher No. 3 pegmatite mine. Covers the history, geologyy, struture, mineralogy and production of this important U.S. beryl producer. 23 pages, includes 2 map plates (in rear pocket) plus 1 figure (map). View more info
By: Jerry C. Olson and E. Neal Hinrichs
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Washington, D.C., U. S. Government Printing Office: 1960
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000181
Condition: Very Good
USGS Bulletin 1082-D. Paper wraps, crease on rear cover, sunning along spine. Report discusses a number of beryl and mica-bearing pegmatites in Nevada and Northern Arizona. Covers the geology, structure, mineralogy and economic potential. 66 pages, including 5 map plates (3 in rear map pocket), 4 figures (maps) and 7 tables. View more info
By: John W. Adams and Eleanora R. Iberall
Price: $9.50
Publisher: Washington, D.C., U. S. Government Printing Office: 1973
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000177
Condition: Very Good
USGS Bulletin 1366. Paper wraps, library stamp on lower front cover, otherwise near fine. 195 pages. View more info
By: L. Baskin
Price: $40.00
Publisher: 1967
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000215
Condition: Very Good
Softcover with plastic spiral binding. Minor sunning of cover, minor creasing along edge of front cover A talk presented at the Association of Engineering Geologists National Meeting in Dallas Texas, October 1967. A study done to assess the risks of widening of WV Highway No. 2 in the Ohio River Valley near Warwood, WV, in regard to slope stability and potential landslides. Contents include surface and subsurface geology of the area. 11 pages plus 8 fold-out maps. View more info
By: Jack Hobart
Price: $25.00
Publisher: California, Jack Hobart Books: 2015
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: No Signature
Seller ID: 000003
ISBN: 1944564004
Condition: New
Beautifully illustrated book on the fire opals of Mexico.133 photographs. View more info
