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GEOSCIENCE BOOKS ONLINE INVENTORY - Phillip Huber, Bookseller/Geologist
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HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Adams, F. W. 1938 [1954 reprint], THE BIRTH AND DEVELOP- MENT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES 8vo, cloth, owner- ship markings on paste downs else very good, clean with 506 + publ. advert. Price: $20.00 (stock#HST010A)
[Buckland, Frank] LIFE OF FRANK BUCKLAND By Bompas, G. C. 1885 1st ed., 8vo, quarter leather with marbled boards, gilt ornate spine with raised bands, light wear to extremities, overall very good copy with 433 pp. This is the rare first ed. in a fine binding, light wear. Price: $25.00 (stock#HST014A)
TERRIBLE LIZARD – THE FIRST DINOSAUR HUNTERS AND THE BIRTH OF A NEW SCIENCE By Cadbury, D. 2000, New York: Holt & Co., 8vo, h/b, dust jacket, like new, 374 + figures. A good read on the early careers of Gideon Mantell, Richard Owen, Buckland, Mary Anning and contemporaries. Price: $20.00 (stockHST011P) GEORGE HAMMELL COOK A LIFE IN AGRICULTURE AND GEOLOGY 1818-1889 By Sidar, J. W. 1976 Rutgers Unv. Press, 8vo, dust jacket, light wear, very good with 282 pp. + figures. Price: $22.00 (stock#HST001A)
GEORGE WILLIAM FEATHERSTONHAUGH-THE FIRST U.S. GOVERNMENT GEOLOGIST. By Berkeley, E. and Berkeley S. 1988, Tuscaloosa: Unv. Alabama Press, 357 pp., 24 illust., cloth, d/j fine. Price: $15.00 (stock#HST017A)
[Grace, W. R.] MERCHANT ADVENTURER: THE STORY OF W. R. GRACE By Marquis J. 1993: Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 385 pp. + illust., cloth with d/j, fine copy and long out of print. Price: $12.00 (stock#HST016A)
HUMPHRY DAVY ON GEOLOGY THE 1805 LECTURES FOR THE GENERAL AUDIENCE By Siegfried, R. and Dott, R. H. Jr. 1980 University of Wisconsin Press, 8vo, dust jacket, light wear, 169 pp., many figs. Price: $20.00 (stockHST002A)
THE GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH By Gorgan, J. X. (ed.), 1982, University of Alabama Press, small 8vo, h/b, no dust jacket, not sure if one issued, fine copy, 195 + figures. Price: $17.50 (stock#HST012A) GEOLOGY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY – CHANGING VIEWS OF A CHANGING WORLD By Greene, M. T. 1982 Cornell University Press 8vo, dust jacket, light wear, almost new, 324 pp. With much on history of thought regarding tec- tonics & orogeny. Price: $22.50 (stock#HST013A) THE LIFE OF FERDINAND VANDEVEER HAYDEN By Foster, M. 1994, Rineharts Publishers, 8vo, dust jacket, clean 443 pp., figs. Price: $22.00 (stock#HST003A)
CHARLES KINGSLEY LETTERS AND MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE edited by his wife 1877 1st American edition, 8vo, gilt cloth cloth, wear/rubbing to extremities, with 502 pp., frontis portrait, good to vg copy. Price: $20.00 (stock#HST015A)
[CHARLES] LYELL IN AMERICA TRANSATLANTIC GEOLOGY 1841 – 1853 By Wilson, L. G. 1998 John Hopkins Unv. Press, 8vo, dj, new, 429 pp., figs. Price: $24.00 (stock#HST004A)
[JOHN] PLAYFAIR’S ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HUTTONIAN THEORY , facsimile, Preface by G. W. White, 1956, 8vo, no dust jacket, publishers cloth, ownership signature on FEP else very good, clean, 528 pp., Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Price: $35.00 (stock#HST005A) RAPHAEL PUMPELLY GENTLEMAN GEOLOGIST OF THE GILDED AGE By Champlin, P. 1994 Unv. Alabama Press, 8vo, dj, 273 pp. + figures. Price: $22.00 (stock#HST006A)
HENRY DARWIN ROGERS 1808 – 1866 By Gerstner, P. 1994 University of Alabama Press, 8vo, dust jacket, like new, 311 pp. + figures. Price: $20.00 (stock#HST007A)
wps, vg. An interesting
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Price: $3.00 (stock#GPAL001A) Schuchert C. 1919 JOSEPH BARRELL offprint from Science 49: 605-607, wps, vg and Barrell’s euology.
Price: $5.00 (stock#HST019A) Schuchert C. 1920 AMERICAN PALEONTOLOGISTS AND THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE OF PALEONTOLOGY offprint from GSA Bulletin 31: 363-374 8vo, wps, vg. An interesting essay. Price: $3.00 (stock#GPAL001A) Schuchert C. 1927 HERBERT’S VIEWS OF 1857 REGARDING THE PERIODIC SUBMERGENCE OF EUROPE offprint from Amer. Jour. Sci [3rd Ser.] 43: 35-41 8vo, wps, spine covered with acid-free archival tape else vg and of interest to those interested in the historical development of catastrophic theory in France. Price: $3.00 (stock#HST018A)
NATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER AND THE CULTURE OF AMERICAN SCIENCE By Livingstone, D. N. 1987, University of Alabama Press, 8vo, h/b, dust jack as issued, lightest wear, 395 pp. Price: $20.00 (stock#HST008A) BENJAMIN SILLIMAN A LIFE IN THE YOUNG REPUBLIC By Brown, C. M. 1989 Princeton University Press, 8vo, h/b, dust jacket, like new, 377 pp., figures. Perhaps the most concise biography of Silliman. Price: $22.50 (stock#HST009A)
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