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Rare book by Hayden, Ferdinand V.; Geology and Natural History of the Upper Missouri.
Hayden, Ferdinand V.; On the Geology and Natural History of the Upper Missouri. Trans. American Philosophical Society, Vol. XII Part 1, New Series, 1862. Quarto, pp. 218, folded hand colored map, text illustrations. & On the Ethnography and Philology of the Indian Tribes of the Missouri Valley; with a Map and Plates. Trans. American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. XII, pt. 2, 1862. Quarto, pp. 230, folded map, 2 tinted plates.

The two works are bound as a set in modern full calf with gilt spine titles. The original title wraps are bound in for each part. Light soiling to original wraps, very minor spotting to the geological map. In very good condition.
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PRICE: $500.00
Rare Book by Hunter, Alexander; Georgical Essays. York, 1777.
Hunter, Alexander; Georgical Essays. York, A. Ward, 1777. Quarto, pp. 530, 4, 1 page ad, 3 folded engraved plates.

The volume is complete and in the original boards with a later calf spine and gilt spine label. The text is crisp, untrimmed, and bright and clean. In very good condition.
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PRICE: $450.00
Rare book by Killebrew, J. B.; Tennessee: its Agricultural & Mineral Wealth, with an Appendix showing the Extent, Value and Accessibility of its ores with Analysis of the same. Nashville, 1876.
Killebrew, J. B.; Tennessee: its Agricultural & Mineral Wealth, with an Appendix showing the Extent, Value and Accessibility of its ores with Analysis of the same. Nashville, 1876. Octavo, pp. 196, folded, hand-colored geological map.

In recent full calf with gilt spine titles, embossed stamp on title page, inner gutter edge of title page nicely restored with archival material. Over all a very nice copy with the rare map present.
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PRICE: $300.00
Rare book by Robert Plot, De Origine Fontium Philosophicum
Plot, Robert; De Origine Fontium, Tentamen Philosophicum. In Praelectione babita coram Societate Philosophica nuper Oxoniae Instituta ad Scientiam Naturalem Promovendam per Rob. Plot .... Oxonii e theatro Sheldoniano, 1685. Octavo, pp. title page with 1684 date on verso, 187, errata at verso of last page, engraved frontispiece.

This rare work is complete and in the original vellum with an inked spine title. The binding is tight with light soiling to the boards. The text is clean with one page having an early archival repair to the very outer edge. Over all in very good condition.
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PRICE: $1,900.00
Rare book by Sir. J. William Dawson, Specimens of Eozoon Canadense.
Dawson, John William; Specimens of Eozoon Canadense and their Geological and other Relations. 1st edition, Peter Redpath Museum, McGill Univ., Montreal, Sept., 1888. Octavo, pp. 106, frontispiece, 16 text illustrations.

The work is complete and in the original title wraps. Spine edge repaired with archival tissue. Inscribed by Dawson and from the library of Raphael Pumpelly with presentation slip tipped in. The text is very clean. In very good condition.
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PRICE: $150.00
Rare book by: Williams, Samuel; The Natural and Civil History of Vermont. 1794.
Williams, Samuel; The Natural and Civil History of Vermont. Isaiah Thomas and David Carlisle Jr., Walpole, New Hampshire: 1794. Original map, (12 x 15”) engraved by James Whitelaw, dated 1793. Large octavo, pp. xvi, 416, folded 12” x 15” map of Vermont engraved by James Whitelaw dated 1793.

The book is complete and in the original calf with gilt spine titles. Binding is tight, spine restored and titles partially perished. Inner hinges tightened, owners book plate on paste down, end sheets toned at margins. The map and text are very clean. In very good condition.
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PRICE: $550.00
Rare Book French Jura Geology: J. Thurmann; Lethea Bruntrutana..Jura Bernois, 1861-64
Thurmann, Jules & Etallon, A.; Lethea Bruntrutana ou Etudes Paleontologiques et Stratigraphiques sur le Jura Bernois et en Particulier les Environs de Porrentruy. Nouv. Mem. Soc. Helvetique, Zurich ,1861-64. Quarto, pp. 500,  hand-colored geological map, hand-colored profiles, columnar sections, 62 plates of fossils.
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The work is complete with text and plates bound into one volume. The binding is a contemporary half calf with raised spine bands and gilt titles. The binding is tight, light wear to spine edges.  From the library of the famous geologist Jules Marcou with his book plate and the canceled book plate of the A.M.N.H. The text and plates are very clean. Rare with both text and atlas present.
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PRICE: $1,100.00
Rare Book Lisbon Earthquake: Haller, Freiherr Albrecht von; Physikalische Betrachtungen von den Erdbeben und den Bewegungen der Daraus erfolgten auserordentlichen Gewässer wie auch von den anderen Natur-Begebenheiten, welche am 1ten Nov. 1755.
Haller, Freiherr Albrecht von; Physikalische Betrachtungen von den Erdbeben und den Bewegungen der Daraus erfolgten auserordentlichen Gewässer wie auch von den anderen Natur-Begebenheiten, welche am 1ten Nov. 1755. den grösten Theil von Europa und andere Welt-Theile betroffen, besonders aber die Königl. grösten den Theil von Europa und andere Welt-Theile betroffen, aber besonders die Königl. Portugisische Haupt-Stadt Lisabon bis auf den Grund zerstöret haben...... Frankfurt und Leipzig, Heinrich Ludwig Bronner, 1756). Octavo, pp. 36, 2, 216, 3 folded engraved plates ( two showing views of Lisbon and the harbor prior to the earthquake and the last the conflagration during the earthquake.

This very rare work is complete and in the original binders wraps and never trimmed. The original wraps are tight and lightly soiled, the text has minor foxing to the first and last pages, the plates are very clean. The work is housed in a 20th century calf and cloth case with gilt titles and owners book plate on inside of case. An exceptionally nice copy of one of the earliest works on the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami.
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PRICE: $4,000.00

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