UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL

 SURVEY BULLETINS (#1-300)

#1  Cross W. and Emmons S. F. 1883 on HYPERSTHENE

ANDESITE AND ON TRICLINIC PYROXENE IN AUGITIC

ROCKS in brown cloth with gilt spine title, vg copy with 42 pp.,

1 plt.                           Price: $22.00                        (stock#USGSB001A)

#2  Williams, A. Jr. 1883 GOLD AND SILVER CONVERSION

TABLES, GIVING THE COINING VALUES OF TROY OUNCES

OF FINE METAL, AND THE WEIGHTS OF  FINE METAL

REPRESENTED BY GIVEN SUMS OF UNITED STATES

MONEY  wps chipped, worn copy, 8 pp. Scarce.

                                    Price: $10.00                  (stock#USGSB002P)

#3  Williams H. S. 1883 ON THE FOSSIL FAUNAS OF THE

UPPER DEVONIAN ALONG THE MERIDIAN OF 76  DEGREES

30', FROM TOMPKINS COUNTY, NEW YORK TO BRADFORD

COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA wps with short archival repairs,

some wear, contents vg and overall a vg copy with 36 pp.

                                   Price: $20.00                   (stock#USGSB003P)

#4  White C. A. 1884 ON MESOZOIC FOSSILS in orig. wps, light

wear, vg copy with 18 pp., 9 plts. Scarce.

                                   Price: $18.00                   (stock#USGSB004P)

#5 Gannett H. 1884 A DICTIONARY OF ALTITUDES IN THE

UNITED STATES archival wps else vg copy with 325 pp.

 Scarce.                     Price: 20.00                          (stock#USGSB005A)

#6  J. W. Spencer 1884 ELEVATIONS IN THE DOMINION OF

CANADA wps with light wear, corner fold crease else vg, 43

pp.                              Price: $12.00                        (stock#USGSB006P)

#8  Irving R. D. and Van Hise C. R. 1884 ON SECONDARY

ENLARGEMENTS OF MINERAL FRAGMENTS IN CERTAIN

ROCKS wps worn, spine with cloth archival tape, contents vg,

clean. With 56 pp., 6 plts, 4 figs. Scarce.

                                   Price: $18.00                         (stock#USGSB008P)

#9  Clarke and Chatard 1884 A REPORT OF WORK DONE IN

THE WASHINGTON LABORATORY DURING THE FISCAL

YEAR 1883 1884 no wps, removed from bound vol. of USGS

bulletins else clean, contents vg, 40 pp. covering mineral rock

ore and water analyses from various locales including

Gilmore’s Mica Mine in Montgomery County Maryland ;

Topsham and Norway Maine , Shasta County California

Bozeman Montana Pyramid Lake Nevada Mono Lake

California and elsewhere. Very scarce.

                                   Price: $10.00                   (stock#USGSB009P)

#11  Call R. E. and Gilbert . K. 1884 ON THE QUATERNARY

AND RECENT MOLLUSCA OF THE GREAT BASIN WITH A

DESCRIPTION OF NEW FORMS light stain and faded society

stamp to wp, contents clean, vg copy, pages

unopened/untrimmed, 66 pp., 6 plts. Scarce.

                                  Price: $16.00                    (stock#USGSB011P)

#12  Dana E, S, 1884 A CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE

THINOLITE OF LAKE LAHONTAN orig. wps, faded oval

society stamp, pages untrimmed/unopened, vg copy,28 pp.

and 3 plts.             Price: $16.00                     (stock#USGSB012P)

#14  Barus C. and Strouhal V. 1885 THE ELECTRICAL AND

MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF THE IRON CARBURETS in orig.

wps, a few small spot to wps, J. B. Marcou’s copy with his

stamp on wps and some pp., vg copy with pp. unopened and

untrimmed, scarce. With 238 pp. and 31 figs.        

                              Price:$15.00                         (stock#USGSB014P)

#15  White C. A. 1885 ON THE MESOZOIC AND CENOZOIC

PALEONTOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA orig. wps, some wear, light

stain to upper inner corner of wp, contents clean, J. B.

Marcou’s copy with some pencil notation in text margins in his

hand. Very scarce and unqiue. With 33 pp. and great content

on the Cenozoic Shasta and Tejon Groups.

                                          Price: $22.00            (stock#USGSB015P)

#16  Clarke J. M. 1885 ON THE HIGHER DEVONIAN FAUNAS

OF ONTARIO COUNTY NEW YORK wps, removed from bound

vol. of USGS bulletins, contents clean and vg with 80 pp. and

3 plts of fossils incl. crustaceans and fishes. Scarce.

                                       Price: $16.00               (stock#USGSB016P)

#17  Hague A. and Iddings J. P. 1885 ON THE DEVELOPMENT

OF CRYSTALLIZATION IN THE IGNEOUS ROCKS OF

WASHOE NEVADA WITH NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE

DISTRICT in red cloth as limited issue, light rummbing to

spine ends, orig. wps bounds in and a fine coppy. With 44 pp

on the famous Comstock Lode and Washoe Mining District of

Nevada.                Price: $32.00                      (stock#USGSB017A)

#18  White C. A. 1885 ON MARINE EOCENE FRESH WATER

MIOCENE AND OTHER FOSSIL MOLLUSCA OF WESTERN

NORTH AMERICA archival paper wps else vg, 26 pp., 3 plts of

fossils with a lot of content on the John Day fossil beds of

Oregon .                  Price: $14.00                    (stock#USGSB018P)

#19  Becker G. F.  1885 NOTES ON THE STRATIGRAPHY OF

CALIFORNIA archival wps else vg copy, 28 pp. and focused

on the Coast Ranges region. Scarce.

                                 Price: $16.00                     (stock#USGSB019A)

#21  Willis B. 1885 THE LIGNITES OF THE GREAT SIOUX

RESERVATION – A REPORT ON THE REGION  BETWEEN

THE GRAND AND MOREAU RIVERS DAKOTA cloth with gilt

spine title, top of spine frayed else vg copy, 16 pp, 5 plts and 4

figs. The fold out colored map is very scarce.

                              Price: 32.00                          (stock#USGSB021A)

#22 White C. A. 1885 ON NEW CRETACEOUS FOSSILS FROM

CALIFORNIA orig. wps with notations, rear wp loose else vg

with 25 pp., 5 plts of fossils from Mendocino County and

Todos Santos Bay regions. 

                                    Price: $18.00                  (stock#USGSB022P)

#27  REPORT OF WORK DONE IN THE DIVISION OF

CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS MAINLY DURING  FISCAL YEAR

1884 – 1885 orig. wps, ex-lib. else vg copy with 80 pp. A scarce

volume on minerals mineralogy and mineral analyses with

papers including FAYALITE FROM YELLOWSTONE PARK ;

SERPENTINE FROM NEWBURYPORT MASSACHUSETTS ;

DACITE FROM WASHOE NEVADA ; RHYOLITE FROM

WASHOE NEVADA ; LIGNITE FROM TURTLE MOUNTAINS

DAKOTA ; COAL FROM ARIZONA ; WATER FROM SANTA FE

NEW MEXICO ; WATER FROM SULPHER SPRINGS

MONTANA; MINERALS FROM WASHINGTON, D. C. and much

more.                         Price: $15.00                  (stock#USGSB027P)

#31  Scudder S. H. 1886 SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF OUR

PRESENT KNOWLEDGE OF FOSSIL INSECTS INCLUDING

MYRIAPODS AND ARACHINIDS front wp loose, with

signature, contents vg, clean. With 128 pp. Very scarce.

                                        Price: $25.00              (stock#USGSB031A)

#34  White C. A. 1886 ON THE RELATION OF THE LARAMIE

MOLLUSCAN FAUNA TO THAT OF THE SUCCEDDING

FRESH WATER EOCENE AND OTHER GROUPS  orig.

wps with some wear, contents clean with 52 pp., 5 plts.

 Scarce.                            Price:$14.00            (stock#USGSB034P)

#35  Barus C. and Strouhal V. 1886 PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

OF THE IRON CARBURETS  orig. wps with chipped margins

else vg copy with 62 pp., 10 figs. Scarce.

                                           Price: $10.00           (stock#USGSB035P)

#36 Barus C. 1886 SUBSIDENCE OF FINE SOLID PARTICLES

IN LIQUIDS in orig. wps,  some wear, contents vg, 54 pp., 4

figs. A rather scarce hydrology and sedimentology

reference with implications for placers.

                                           Price: $10.00           (stock#USGSB036P)

#37  Ward L. F. 1887 TYPES OF THE LARAMIE FLORA no wps,

removed from bound vol. of USGS Bulletins else good, some

wear with 354 pp. and 37 plts of fossils. Scarce.

                                           Price: $20.00           (stock#USGSB037P)

#38  Diller J. S. 1887 PERIDOTITE OF ELLIOTT COUNTY

KENTUCKY archival wps, a restored, somewhat worn copy

with 29 pp., 1 plt, 8 figs.  Price: $8.00          (stock#USGSB038P)

#40  Willis B. 1887 CHANGES IN RIVER COURSES IN

WASHINGTON TERRITORY DUE TO GLACIATION original

wraps with archival tissue repair, worn but clean copy

internally, 10 pp., 4 plts that are maps. 

                                         Price: $15.00             (stock#USGSB040A)

#41 Williams, H. S. 1887 ON THE FOSSIL FAUNAS OF THE

UPPER DEVONIAN THE GENESEE SECTION NEW YORK

archival wps, ex-lib, some wear, contents vg with 123 pp., 4

plates of fossils.        Price: $20.00                    (stock#USGSB041A)

#42  Clarke F. W. 1887 REPORT OF THE WORK DONE IN THE

DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS MAINLY DURING

THE PHYSICAL YEAR 1885–1886 in archival wps else vg with

152 pp., 1 plt, 10 figs. and with much on Litchfield Maine

mineral deposits.       Price: $10.00              (stock#USGSB042P)

#43  Smith and Johnson 1887 ON THE TERTIARY AND

CRETACEOUS STRATA OF THE TUSCALOOSA , TOMBIGEE

AND ALABAMA RIVERS archival wps else vg, 189 pp., 21 plts,

1 fig. Very scarce.          Price: $24.00             (stock#USGSB043P)

#44  Darton N. H. 1887 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN

GEOLOGY FOR 1886 archival wps, contents vg with 35 pp.    

                                            Price: $5.00            (stock#USGSB044P)

#45  Hill R. T. 1887 THE PRESENT CONDITION OF

KNOWLEDGE ON THE GEOLOGY OF TEXAS archival wps

else vg copy, pages untrimmed/unopened, 95 pp. Scarce.

                                         Price: $20.00             (stock#USGSB045A)

#46 Penrose R. A. F. Jr. and Shaler N. S. 1888 NATURE AND

ORIGIN OF DEPOSITS OF PHOSPHATE OF LIME archival wps,

contents vg with 141 pp., 3 plts, 36 figs. A scarce classic on

phosphate deposits.    Price: $18.00              (stock#USGSB046P)

#47  Gooch F. A. and Whitfield J. E. 1888 ANALYSES OF

WATERS IN THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK WITH AN

ACCOUNT OF THE METHODS OF ANALYSES EMPLOYED

archival wps, contents vg with 84 pp.,  2 figs and providing

chemical analyses from all major geysers in Yellowstone

Park.                                 Price: $22.00           (stock#USGSB047P)

#48  Woodward R. S. REFERENCE TO ITS DEPENDENCE ON

SUPERFICIAL MASSES SYMMETRICALLY DISPOSED ABOUT

A NORMAL TO THE EARTHS SURFACE orig. wps, rear wp

loose else light wear, a few pp. with closed tears, repaired else

vg copy with 88 pp. A scarce and early analytical reference on

eustasy.                         Price: $14.00             (stock#USGSB048P)

#49  Woodward R. S. 1888 LATITUDES AND LONGITUDES OF

CERTAIN POINTS IN  MISSOURI KANSAS AND NEW MEXICO

orig. wps, untrimmed, small label on wp else vg copy with light

wear, 133 pp.              Price: $14.00               (stock#USGSB049P)

#52  Russell I. C. 1889 SUBAERIAL DECAY OF ROCKS AND

ORIGIN OF THE RED COLOR OF CERTAIN FORMATIONS orig.

wps with notations else vg copy, 65 pp., 5 plts, one of which is

a fold out, of scenic views including Mount Mitchell North

Carolina and Harpers Ferry West Virginia . Scarce.    

                                                   Price: $16.00               (stock#USGSB052P)

#53  Shaler N. S. 1889 THE GEOLOGY OF NANTUCKET wps

with stamp, notation else fine copy with with 55 pp., 10 plts, 16

figs. Most of the plates are engraved beach cliff and upland

scenes with the double page colored geologic map of

Nantucket bound in at the front. H. Reis’ copy. Rare.

                                                   Price: $50.00                (stock#USGSB053P)

#54  Barus  C. 1889 ON THE THERMO ELECTRIC

MEASUREMENT OF HIGH TEMPERATURES in orig. wps,

some short marginal tears, wear/soiling to wps, contents vg

with pages largely unopened/untrimmed. With 313 pp., 56 figs,

108 tables.                Price: $14.00                 (stock#USGSB054P)

#55  Clarke F. W. 1889 REPORT OF WORK DONE IN THE

DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS MAINLY DURING

FISCAL YEAR 1886 – 1887 orig. wps, rear wp loose else vg

copy with with 96 pp. with diverse mineral minerals and

mineralogy content including FELDSPARS FROM

DELAWARE ; FELDSPARS FROM GREYLOCK MOUNTAIN

MASSACHUSETTS ; ROCKS FROM PIGEON POINT

MINNESOTA ; TRIASSIC SANDSTONE FROM MARYLAND ;

WATER FROM OWENS LAKE CALIFORNIA and more.

                                    Price: $15.00                  (stock#USGSB055P)

#56  Knowlton F. L. 1889 FOSSIL WOOD AND LIGNITE FROM

THE POTOMAC FORMATION OF VIRGINIA orig. wps with

some wear, chips, contents vg with 72 pp. and 6 plts on fossil

wood from the Early Cretaceous Atlantic Coastal Plain strata

of Virginia. Scarce.           Price: $18.00          (stock#USGSB056P)

#57 Hay R. 1890 A GEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE IN

SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS archival wps else vg copy, 49 pp.,

colored fold out geologic map of the Smokey River region and

19 figs. Scarce.              Price: $18.00           (stock#USGSB057A)

#59  Chester F. D. 1890 THE GABBROS AND ASSOCIATED

ROCKS IN DELAWARE By Chester F. D. 1890 archival wps

else vg, clean copy with 46 pp. and complete with the

colored fold out map of the Delaware River region which is in

fine condition. Scarce.    Price: $20.00        (stock#USGSB059A)

#60  Clarke F. W. 1890 REPORT OF WORK DONE IN THE

DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS MAINLY DURING

FISCAL YEAR 1887-1888 orig. wps with some light creases

else vg, untrimmed, pages unopened, with 175 pp., 9 figures.

Contains diverse mineral minerals and mineralogy content

including WILLEMITE FROM FRANKLIN NEW JERSEY ;

TRIPLITE FROM THE BLACK HILLS ; NATURAL SODA, ITS

OCCURRENCE AND UTILIZATION (with a score of short

articles on California and Nevada deposits) and much

more.                          Price: $18.00                 (stock#USGSB060P)