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	Rare Geographic Atlas: Julius C. Solinus; Polyhistor, Rerum Toto Orbe Memorabilium Thesaurus Locpletissimus. 1543. Solinus, C. Julius; Polyhistor, Rerum Toto Orbe Memorabilium Thesaurus Locpletissimus.. Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1543. Folio, pp. 20, 230, 2, plus two folding maps and eighteen in-text maps. Woodcut vignette on title page and final leaf. This rare atlas is complete and in the original limp vellum with black spine titles. String ties are perished, light soiling to boards. Very early damp stain to lower margin of text and maps has had archival treatment. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS. PRICE: $10,500.00
	Rare geology book by Owen, David Dale; Report of a Geological Exploration of part of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. Owen, David Dale; Report of a Geological Exploration of part of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. Washington, SED 407, 1844. Octavo, pp. 191, 24 folded plates and maps (many colored). The text is complete and in a recent cloth and marbled boards with gilt cover and spine titles. The binding is tight and very clean, text and plates are exceptionally clean. In very good condition. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS. PRICE: $400.00
	Rare Geology Book, John B. Trask, Report on the Geology of the Coast Mountains, 1855 Trask, John B.; Report on the Geology of the Coast Mountains; Embracing their Agricultural Resources and Mineral Productions. Also Portions of the Middle and Northern Mining Districts. California Senate Doc. #14, 1855. Octavo, pp. 95. This rare work on California is complete and in a modern archival folder. The binding is tight and clean. There are short archival repairs to the outer corners and margins of a few pages. Light toning to one signature. Over all in very good condition. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS PRICE: $500.00
	Rare geology book, William Thomas Blandford; Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia Blandford, William Thomas; Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia, made during the progress of the British Expedition to that Country in 1867-68. Macmillan, London., 1870. First edition, quarto, pp. xii, 488 folding tinted lithograph frontispiece, 12 plates including 6 colored lithographs bird plates by Keulemans, folding colored geological map. The text is complete and in the original green cloth with gilt spine titles. The binding is tight, smudge mark on lower spine where call-number was removed. Book plate of noted U.S. geologist Josiah D. Whitney on paste down and smaller plate removed from upper margin of paste down and pocket removed from rear. The text is exceptionally clean and bright. In very good condition. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS PRICE: $900.00
	Rare Geology Book: Alexander von Humboldt; Kleinere Schriften. Mit Atlas Umrisse von Vulkanen aus den Cordilleren von Quito und Mexiko. 1853 Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von; Kleinere Schriften. Erster [einziger] Band. Geognostische und physikalische Erinnerungen. Mit Atlas Umrisse von Vulkanen aus den Cordilleren von Quito und Mexiko. Stuttgart und Tubingen: J. G. Cotta’scher Verlag, 1853. Octavo text, oblong quarto atlas, text pp. 4, viii, 474, 1, 6 folding charts. Atlas, title, dedication, 12 engraved plates (9 views, 2 maps, 1 chart). The set is complete with the text in a period black morocco and cloth with gilt titles, very minor foxing to first and last leafs. The atlas is in the original cloth backed boards with black titles on cover. Light foxing to plates. In very good condition. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL BOOKS. PRICE: $2,100.00
	Rare Geology Book: Wheeler, George M. & Stevenson, John. J.; Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian in 1872, Part IV, Vol. III. Geology of a Portion of Colorado Explored in 1873. Wheeler, George M. & Stevenson, John. J.;  Report Upon Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian in 1872, Part IV, Vol. III. Geology of a Portion of Colorado Explored in 1873. Washington, 1875. Quarto, pp. 300-508, text illustrations. The text is complete and in the original brown cloth with gilt titles. The binding is tight and clean, titles are bright. Light foxing to end sheets, text is very clean. In very good condition. Rare in this format. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL BOOKS PRICE: $550.00
	Rare Geology Book: Wheeler, George M.; Progress-Report Upon Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian in 1872 Wheeler, George M.; Progress-Report Upon Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian in 1872, under the Direction of Brig. Gen. A. A. Humphreys. Washington, 1874. Quarto, pp. 56, folded map, 5 plates. The text is complete and in the original brown cloth with gilt titles. The binding is tight and clean, professionally re-cased with evidence of the work not visible. X-lib. Carnegie Library with stamp on title page, edge of last page, verso of map and plate edge. Clear archival repair to the back of a fold on the map, light dust soiling to outer margin of a plate. In very good condition. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL BOOKS PRICE: $650.00
	Rare Grand Canon Book by Clarence Dutton; Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District with Atlas Dutton, Clarence E.; Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District with Atlas. USGS Monograph 2, Washington, 1882. Text, quarto, pp. xiv, 264, colored frontispiece chromolith by Holmes of Smithsonian Butte, 1 colored chromolith by Holmes, 9 woodcut plates by Moran, 31 additional full page woodcuts, heliotypes and photoengravings. Atlas, folio, title page plus 22 additional double page sheets. FREE SHIPPING ON ALL BOOKS. Atlas in original cloth binding, gilt stamped titles. Binding is tight and clean with minor repair to lower spine edge, titles are bright, plates are very clean and bright. The text is in the original cloth with gilt stamped titles, spine lightly sun faded, text and plates are very clean. The panoramic views in the Kaibab division (plates 15-17) and Vulcans Throne panorama (plate 6) are exquisite. The Moran panorama of the amphitheater usually has severe blemishes caused by the oil based paint used. This copy is exceptionally clean with no blemishes to the plates. Overall a very good complete set of the greatest work done on the Grand Canyon with all plates in near fine condition. PRICE: $14,000.00

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