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	Rare Geology Book: François Xavier Burtin - Oryctographie de Bruxelles, ou Description des Fossiles tant Naturels qu'accidentel découverts jusqu'à ce Jour dans les environs de cette Ville, 1784. Burtin, François Xavier; Oryctographie de Bruxelles, ou Description des Fossiles tant Naturels qu'accidentel découverts jusqu'à ce Jour dans les environs de cette Ville. Brussels: Privately Printed by Le Maire for the Author, 1784. Folio, pp. 153, engraved title page with vignettes and 32 engraved plates (all of which are finely hand-colored). $9500. In original half calf and marbled boards with gilt titles and spine panels. The binding is tight and clean, spine rubbed, text untrimmed and plates are bright, crisp and free of toning or foxing. An exceptional copy. PRICE: $9,700.00
	Rare Geology Book: Geological Society of Pennsylvania Transactions, Volume 1, pt.2. Philadelphia, 1835. Geological Society of Pennsylvania Transactions, Volume 1, part. 2. Philadelphia, James Kay, Jun. & Brother;  Pittsburgh, John I. Kay & Co., 1835. Quarto, pp. i-x,  (includes contents to both parts, membership subscriber list), 177-427, errata, and  plates, 7-26, many hand-colored, many folded. Quarto, 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. This is volume 1 part 2 and the last part published. The volume is in a blue linen with gilt titles. Old call number on lower spine, later private owners stamp on end sheet. card pocket removed from rear and small discard stamp on first page of contents. Light foxing to some text and a few plates, light stain to outer margin of a few text pages. Text is still untrimmed, several articles have early penciled notations along margins.  Over all in good-very good condition. The first printing of a very rare geology work. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL BOOKS PRICE: $1,000.00
	Rare Geology Book: George Hoggart Toulmin; The Antiquity and Duration of the World. London, T. Cadell, 1780. Toulmin, George Hoggart; The Antiquity and Duration of the World. London, T. Cadell, 1780. Octavo, pp. ix, 12, 200. The work is complete and in a contemporary calf over marbled boards. Restoration to binding corners and hinges, modern gilt spine label. Owners book plate on paste down, earlier label removed from end sheet, no library markings present. Some early penciled notations in text margins, text is clean. In very good condition. Very rare. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS PRICE: $3,400.00
	Rare Geology Book: Harker, Alfred ; The Natural History of Igneous Rocks. 1909. Harker, Alfred ; The Natural History of Igneous Rocks. First edition, New York, MacMillan & Co., 1909. Quarto, pp. xvi, 384, frontispiece, 1 plate, 112 figures and diagrams. Original orange cloth with gilt cover and spine titles, covers worn at edges, small smudge from catalogue number on lower spine, spine sun-faded, the text is very clean. Note tipped on to front end sheet "with the compliments of the author", below this is the book plate of Florence Bascom, and below that is her tipped on signature. A nice association copy of the 1st edition of a classic in igneous petrology. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL BOOKS. PRICE: $200.00
	Rare Geology Book: Héricart de Thury, Louis Etienne François; Instruction sur la Marne, avec son gisement, ses caracteres. 1805. Héricart de Thury, Louis Etienne François; Instruction sur la Marne, avec son gisement, ses caracteres, ses diverses especes, leurs proprietes, la maniere de les employer dans les differentes natures de terres, et la notice des valles du departement des Hautes-Alpes qu renferment cette substance. J. Allier, 1805. Octavo, pp. 46, 4 (index). The work is complete and in the original blue binders wraps. Light wear and soiling to wraps, moderate toning to half title and text margins. In good condition. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS PRICE: $200.00
	Rare Geology Book: Hitchcock, Edward, Report on the geology, mineralogy, botany, and zoology of Massachusetts, ... .in Four Parts: 1833. Hitchcock, Edward, Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology of Massachusetts, ... .in Four Parts: Part 1. Economical Geology. Part II. Topographical Geology. Part III. Scientific Geology. Part IV. Catalogue of Animals and Plants.  With a descriptive list of the specimens of rocks and minerals. Illustrated by wood-cuts and an atlas of plates. First Edition, Amherst, Press of J.S. and C. Adams, 1833. Quarto, text, pp. xii, 692 with text woodcuts. Oblong quarto atlas, 19 plates (1 hand-colored) and hand-colored folded geological map. The text is in a contemporary half calf with gilt ruled borders, raised spine panels with gilt spine titles and gilt edges. The binding is tight and clean, text is very clean with inscription on title page. The atlas is in the original boards with original paper title label and index. Binding is worn and soiled, plates have minor foxing to margins with exception of last two plates which have heavy foxing and damp margin on lower gutter edge. Over all a very good set. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL BOOKS PRICE: $1,500.00
	Rare Geology Book: John Whitehurst, Original State and Formation of the Earth, 1786 Whitehurst, John; An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth; Deduced from Facts and the Laws of Nature. 2nd ed., London, Printed for W. Bent, 1786. Quarto, pp. 12, 283, copper-engraved frontispiece portrait, 7 (5 folded) copper-engraved plates. The work is complete and in a contemporary calf over marbled boards with red/gilt spine titles. The binding is tight, light scuffing to binding, light foxing to frontispiece and offset of image to title page. In very good condition. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS PRICE: $1,000.00
	Rare geology book: Louis Anatase Chaubard; Elemens de géologie mise à la portée de tout le monde....1833 Chaubard, Louis Anatase; Elemens de géologie mise à la portée de tout le monde et offrant la concordance des faits géologiques avec les faits historiques, tels qu'ilsse trouvent dans la bible, les traditions égyptiennes et les fables de la Grèce. Paris, 1833. Octavo, pp. 366, 2 folded plates, 1 table. The work is complete and in a 19th century cloth with gilt titles. The binding is tight and clean. Canceled book plate of AMNH on end sheet, rubber stamp on title page and upper edge of plates. Inscribed by noted American conchologist William Cooper (1798-1864) to the New York Lyceum Natural History, an institution he helped found. In very good condition. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS PRICE: $450.00

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