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Price: $50.00
Publisher: Mineola, New York, Dover Publications: 2004
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Seller ID: 000008
ISBN: 0486495914
Condition: New
Translated from the first Latin Edition of 1546 by Mark Chance Bandy and Jean A. Bandy. This book is the first published book on mineralogy, mining, and mineral processing. It offers a glimpse of the knowledge of minerals and mining that was know from early history until the mid-16th Century. View more info
By: Georgius Agricola, translated by Mark Chance Bandy and Jean A. Bandy
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Geological Society of America: 1955
Edition: 1st Edition
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Seller ID: 000252
Condition: Very Good
Translated from the 1546 first latin edition. Cloth cover shows minor wear and bumping to several corners, minor soiling. Pages slightly sunned but in very good condition. Previous owner's name stamped on front flyleaf. One of the earliest comprehensive treatises on the study of and uses of minerals and ore deposits. Agricola not only studied the early classic literature, but was in a position to visit many mines and mineral deposits, and therefore brought a new understanding as to how minerals formed and could be found. Much attention is also paid to the uses of minerals, what constituted v... View more info
By: Frank Cressy
Price: $40.00
Publisher: California, Frank Cressy: 2016
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 000004
ISBN: 1532316933
Condition: New
This book contains accounts of 169 witnessed meteorite falls that occurred in the United States from the first documented fall at Weston, Connecticut in 1807 to the Creston, California fall in 2015. Well researched and illustrated, with an extensive bibliography. 257 pages with numerous photographs, View more info
By: Frank Chambers
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Francis Paul Geoscience Literature: 1988
Edition: 1st Edition
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Seller ID: 000066
Condition: Very Good
Sunning on small portions of edges on front cover and along spine, else fine condition. A tribute to the men of the early United States Geological and Geographical Survey, who, under the leadership of Ferdinand V. Hayden, explored the little known interior west of the United States in the 1870's. Utilizing the photographic plates of the Survey's photographer, William Henry Jackson, the author is able to give the reader a feel of what it was like to explore uncharted territories of what are now Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. Scarce. Acquired from the library of Jay Lininger, publisher of... View more info
By: Christian Ratsch
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Bern, Switzerland, Hallwag Verlag: 1990
Edition: 1st Edition
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Seller ID: 000247
ISBN: 3444103670
Condition: Very Good
Glossy cover scuffed and slightly creased, slight wear to edges, contents near fine, binding tight. A detailed catalog of medicinal plants thought to be aphrodisiacs. Includes ancient to modern history of the uses of these plants and their ethnobotany. Profusely illustrated with color photographs, historical drawings and tables. An interesting work of value to ethnobotanists, herbalists, and subscribers of natural medicines. 208 pages. View more info
By: James L. Hansen, William A. Schrader and William R. Cowan
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Washington, D.C., Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: 1974
Edition: 2nd Edition
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Seller ID: 000071
Condition: Fine
Pictorial cover. An important work, describing a very large collection of microscopes housed at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C. The book describes approximately 475 of the more than 700 microscopes in the Museum collection at the time of publication. 475 figures (photographs of historic microscopes). 244 pages. View more info
