Roberts-Austin, William Chandler; Sydney W. Smith, ed.

Roberts-Austin: A Record of His Work

London, Charles Griffin and Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being currently no copies available on-line. A fine-looking Memorial Volume recounting the life and work of a prominent British metallurgist and a social history of the Royal School of Mines. Collection of addresses and metallurgical papers. Bound handsomely in brownish-burgundy cloth over boards, another fine burgundy-like pebbly cloth over spine, with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Tissue-protected fine portrait of the author/subject at frontis. Lengthy list of plates and including fold-out maps, graphs and charts. x [1] 2-382 pp. and with a complete index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 350641

Catalogue: Geology and Science

Keywords: William Chandler Roberts-Austin|metallurgy

Creagh, Agnes, ed.

Guidebook of Excursions, the Geological Society of America, 61st Annual Meetingpublished by ,

New York, The Geological Society of America, 1948. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. From the personal library of Stephen Jay Gould, the noted paleontologist, comprising the conference papers from the New York, N.Y. 61st Annual Meeting held from November 10-14, 1948 of The Geological Society of America. 135 pp. with plentiful black-and-white illustrations. Papers devoted to the New Jersey Zinc Company, Staten Island Pleistocene and Tertiary geology, petrology of the Cortlandt norite, New York Engineering, Squier Laboratory, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, the Bell Telephone Laboratory and more from Meredith Johnson, Charles P. Berkey, M.L. Brashears, Jr., S. James Shand, Robert Balk, T.F.W. Barth, Paul F. Kerr, Walter H. Bucher, Charles P. Berkey, Thomas W. Fluhr and others. Bound handsomely in bright red paper-covered boards, black comb-ring-bound.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 351413

Catalogue: Science::Geology

Keywords: The Geological Society of America Stephen Jay Gould New Jersey Zinc Company Meredith Johnson Charles P. Berkey M.L. Brashears, Jr., S. James Shand Robert Balk T.F.W. Barth Paul F. Kerr Walter H. Bucher Charles P. Berkey Thomas W. Fluhr