[HOLMES, T. V. (Thomas Vincent) 1840-1923.]

Report of the committee for the exploration of the subsidences on Blackheath.

Blackheath: published by Edgar Neve, 1881. 21cm. 30pp, folding plate. With: On earthquakes in Devonshire ... 1844. With: The great Essex earthquake ... 1884. With: ... East Anglian earthquake ... 1881. Modern purpose made-folder, plain cloth backed marbled sides. Light vertical creases to pamphlets.

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Book number: 46563

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology England History

BAKEWELL, Robert.

An Introduction to Geology: intended to convey a practical knowledge of the science, and comprising the most important recent discoveries; with explanations of the facts and phenomena which serve to confirm or invalidate various geological theories.

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833 4th enlarged edition. 8vo. xxxvi, erratum slip tipped in, 589,[1] pp, frontis, title-page vignette, 7 plates (some folding), folding hand coloured geological map, woodcut text ills. Rebound in paper boards, ¼ style, using contemporary materials, printed paper spine label, original eps, uncut. Random spotting.

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Book number: 16469

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology Geology BAKEWELL

BEWICK, Joseph.

Geological Treatise on the District of Cleveland, in North Yorkshire, its ferruginous deposits, lias, and oolites; with some observations on ironstone mining.

London: John Weale; Newcastle-on-Tyne: Andrew Reid, 1861. 8vo. xvii[iii], 194pp, multi-folding colour geological map and section, 2 multi-folding tables at rear. Original blind-stamped red cloth gilt, yellow eps. Extremes rubbed with light wear; cloth very lightly soiled; slight marginal soiling to prelims.

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Book number: 40808

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology Yorkshire

BEWICK, Joseph.

Geological Treatise on the District of Cleveland, in North Yorkshire, its ferruginous deposits, lias, and oolites; with some observations on ironstone mining.

London: John Weale; Newcastle-on-Tyne: Andrew Reid, 1861. 8vo. xvii[iii], 194pp, 2 folding colour-litho geological sections, multi-folding table at rear. Original blind-stamped red cloth gilt, yellow eps. Extremes rubbed with light wear; neat small repairs to spine tips; cloth lightly soiled and stained; very light spotting to prelims, folding sections and table; lacks the large folding map.

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Book number: 41500

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology North East England

BRUTON, F. A.; J. R. WILKINSON.

Glimpses of the Mineral Wealth of Wild Wales. Notes for the [second] Llangynog camp ...

Manchester Grammar School, 1915. 8vo. 56pp. Original embossed card wraps lettered and decorated in black. * Not found in COPAC, CCLC or any other of the major on-line databases.

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Book number: 37205

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology Wales School History

CALVERT, Robert, of Bishop Auckland.

Notes on the Geology & Natural History of the County of Durham.

Bishop Auckland: printed by W.J. Cummins, 1884. 8vo. [iv], 182pp including index, multifolding coloured litho geological frontis map, 2 coloured litho sections. Original brown cloth gilt, green eps. Extremes very lightly rubbed; neatly repaired closed tear to frontis gutter-margin; very slight spotting to frontis. * Not in Challinor or Freeman.

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Book number: 35104

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology North East England

CAMERON, Alan Charles G. Editor & Compiler)

The seaport town of Lyme Regis in Dorset. Anno Domini 774-1912. An account of its geology and its history.

Lyme Regis: published by F. Dunster, [1912]. 18cm. [10], 35[1]pp, 6 plates, folding map. Original printed grey card wraps, stapled. Light spotting to map recto and title page.

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Book number: 46480

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology South West England Geology England Lyme Regis. Lyme Regis (England) History.

DAY, David T.

Mineral Resources of the United States. Calendar Year 1905.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906. 8vo. 1403[1]pp, text figure and tables. Original cloth gilt. Extremes rubbed, hinges easing. * This copy is signed on the front free end paper recto 'John S. MacArthur, 7th May, 1907'. MacArthur was the inventor in 1887, with his fellow Scottish chemists Robert W. Forrest, and William Forrest, of the MACARTHUR-FORREST PROCESS, a method of extracting silver and gold from their ores by dissolving them in a dilute solution of sodium cyanide or potassium cyanide.

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Book number: 16289

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Mineralogy ECONOMICS

FERGUSON, R.S.

The Formation of Cumberland. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Cumberland Association for the Advancement of Literature and Science. Part IV, 1879.

N.P N.D. 28 pp. Original printed blue card wraps, stab sewn. Cloth strip applied to spine, wrap fairly foxed and age browned.

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Book number: 32002

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology North West England

FORSTER, Westgarth.

A Treatise on a Section of the Strata from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the mountain ofCross Fell, in Cumberland; with remarks on mineral veins. Also, tables of the strata in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, etc.; to which is added, a treatise on the discovery, the opening, and the working of lead mines; with the dressing and smelting of lead ores.

Printed, for the Author, at the Geological Press, and sold by John Pattinson, Alston ... , 1821 enlarged 2nd edition. 8vo. xii, 422pp, xvi pp appendix, [6]pp index & glossary, [12]pp subscribers list and errata, plates (some hand-coloured and some folding), multi-folding table, text figures. Contemporary red half calf, re-backed in matching calf with new calf gilt spine label, original marbled sides and grey eps, marbled leaf-edges. Extremes rubbed with wear; occasional light offset from plates.

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Book number: 35103

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology North East England

HULL, Edward.

The Triassic and Permian rocks of the midland counties of England. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales.

London: Longmans, Green, & Co. for H.M.S.O, 1869. 23cm. x, 127[1]pp, frontis, text illustrations. Later calf gilt backed blue buckram. Ex-reference library with usual evidence.

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Book number: 46491

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology Geology England. Geology, Stratigraphic Permian. Geology, Stratigraphic Triassic. Geology England. Geology, Stratigraphic Permian. Geology, Stratigraphic Triassic. Geology England Midlands. Geology, Stratigraphic Triassic England. Geology, Strati

JONES, JNO.

Notes on the Geology of the Midland Counties.

Birmingham: Henry Wright London: Simpkin Marshall, & Co. 1866. 24 pp. Original brown printed paper wraps, sewn, 22 cm x 14 cm. Pages age browned, small loss of paper to spine, wraps lightly soiled and creased.

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Book number: 39734

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology Midlands

KINGSLEY, Charles.

Town geology.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1895. 8vo. 151pp. Contemporary half morocco gilt, raised bands, decorated compartments, spine lettered direct, marbled sides, endpapers and leaf-edges. Signed binding by Mudie. Light spotting to endpapers.

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Book number: 44607

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology Bible Binding

LAMPLUGH, G. W.

The geology of the Isle of Man. With petrological notes by W.W. Watts Memoirs of the Geological survey, United Kingdom

London: printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Wyman and Sons, 1903. 8vo. xiv, 620pp, folding coloured geological map frontis, 5 folding plates, text illustrations. Library maroon half morocco gilt, matching sides, sprinkled leaf-edges. Ex-reference library with usual evidence. A clean crisp copy internally. SOLD ABE MAY 2021

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Book number: 44375

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology North West England Mines Mineral resources

LEBOUR, G. A.

Geology of the Redesdale Ironstone District. From the Transactions of the North of Englnd Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Vol. XXII.

Newcastle: A Reid, 1873. 8vo.[ii], 18pp, colour geological map and contour map at rear, text tables. Disbound. Light vertical crease.

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Book number: 36135

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology North East England