21. [Glaciologie / Glaciology] Gaurier, Ludovic / Ministère de l’Agriculture.

Service des Grandes Forces Hydrauliques. [Region des Alpes / Glacier de Gébroulaz / Observations Glaciaires dans les Pyrénées / Renseignements Historiques sur les Glaciers: Le Massif du Mont-Blanc etc. / Glacier de la Breche de Roland / Glaciers de Gavarnie etc.]

18 volumes. [Paris], Ministère de l’Agriculture, 1911-1920. 19 cm x 29 cm. 1746 pages. Nombreuses cartes dépliantes, graphiques, tableaux et graphiques / Numerous fold-out maps, charts, tables and graphs. Hardcovers and softcovers [publisher’s original] green cloth boards with gilt lettering on title label on spine. Slip-case with lettering to both boards and spine. / Reliure originale. Bon etat / Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interiors sunned but otherwise bright and clean.

22. Gries, Robbie R. / Dyer, Robert C.

Seismic Exploration of the Rocky Mountain Region. A Joint Publication of Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists and Denver Geophysical Society.

Denver, Denver Geophysical Society, 1985. Oblong – Elephant-Folio (63 cm wide x 33 cm high). Softcover – Spiralbinder. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the Reference – library of Geologist David (Dave) Naylor.

23. Hatch, Frederick H. / Chalmers J.A.

The Gold Mines of the Rand – Being a Description of the Mining Industry of Witwatersrand South African Republic. With Maps, Plans and Illustrations.

Second Edition. London and New York, Macmillan and Co, 1895. 18 cm x 26 cm. XVII, 306 pages. 79 in-text illustrations and 14 monochrome photographs. 2 fold-out maps in pocket of rear board showing the South Transvaal and Witwatersrand. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and gilt tooling on boards. Deckled edges. Very good+ condition with some signs of external wear. Abrasion to cloth at heel of spine. Binding is strong and firm. Interior of book is unmarked but shows some signs of foxing. Name of preowner on titlepage: “Alma Stewart Arnold” (?)

24. Humboldt, Alexander von / Oltmanns, Jabbo.

Über den Bau und die Wirkungsart der Vulkane in den verschiedenen Erdstrichen / [zusammen mit Jabbo Oltmanns:] Darstellung der Resultate, welche sich aus den am Vesuv, von Alexander von Humboldt und anderen Beobachtern angestellten Höhen – Messungen herleiten lassen. [dies ist gleichzeitig als ‘Ergänzung der Abhandlung von Alexander von Humboldt’s Schrift “Über den Bau und die Wirkungsart der Vulkane” zu verstehen und erschien im gleichen Jahrgangsband der Akademie an anderer Stelle].

Erste Ausgabe. 2 Abhandlungen (komplett). Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1825. Quarto (22 cm x 26.5 cm). Humboldt’s Schrift enthaelt: 8 Seiten (Seiten 137 – 155 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823) / Oltmanns’ Schrift enthaelt: 20 Seiten (Seiten 1 – 20 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823). Moderne Broschur mit eingebundenen Originalabhandlungen. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltenen, originalen Erstausgaben der Publikationen. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Den originalen Publikationen wurde je eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus den Jahren 1822 und 1823].

25. Jenkins, Dennis L. / Connolly, Thomas J.

Archaeological Excavations at the Paquet Gulch Bridge Site: A Pithouse Village in the Deschutes River Basin, Southwestern Columbia Plateau, Oregon. With Contributions by R. Scott Byram, Linda Scott Cummings, Dorothy E. Freidel, Richard E. Hughes, Vivien J. Singer, Guy L. Tasa, and Nancy A. Stenholm.

O.O., University of Oregon, 1994. 4°. XIV, 215 Pages. Softcover. Excellent condition. No markings in the Text! No Underlinings! (‘Anthropological Papers’, No. 49).

26. Karsten, Carl Johann Bernhard.

Über die Verbindung des Eisens mit Kohle.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1825. Quarto (22 cm x 26.5 cm). 33 Seiten (Seiten 49 – 82 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823). Moderne Broschur mit eingebundener Originalabhandlung. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltene, originale Erstausgabe der Publikation. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Der originalen Publikation wurde eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus den Jahren 1822 und 1823].

27. Kittl, Ernst.

Mittheilungen der Section für Naturkunde des Österreichischen Touristen-Club.

8 volumes in 4. Wien, Steyrermühl, 1889 – 1895. 21.5 cm x 28.5 cm / 22.5 cm x 30 cm Circa 700 pages. Vol.I, 100 / Vol. II-III & V-VI, 352 pages / Vol.IV, 92 pages / Vol.VII-VIII, 172 pages. Numerous monochrome illustrations. Hardcover / Halbleder. With gilt lettering on spine. 2 green marbled boards and 2 dark coloured boards. Vol.IV and Vol.VII-VIII in very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bindings firm and strong. Interiors clean and unmarked. Slight tanning throughout. Spines of Vol.I and Vol. II-III & V-VI in poor condition but overall still firm. Backstrip missing. Board corners rubbed. Interior clean. Tanning throughout.

28. Kruit, Cornelis.

Sediments of the Rhone Delta – Grain size and Microfauna. [Including: Physiographic Map / Distribution Maps of Main Sediment and Fresh- and Brackish Water

‘s-Gravenhage, Mouton, 1955. 27 cm. 141 pages with 6 folded maps/tables in rear pocket. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the private collection of geologist Dave Naylor, with his name and year 1961 to titlepage.

29. Mallet, Robert.

On the Dynamics of Earthquakes ; being an Attempt to reduce their observed Phenomena to the known Laws of Wave Motion in Solids and Fluids. [Read 9th February, 1846] AND: On the Objects, Construction, and Use of certain new Instruments for Self-registration of the Passage of Earthquake Shocks. [Read June 22,1846].

First Edition of both original papers. [Dublin], Royal Irish Academy, 1846. Quarto. 63 pages with 2 illustrations in the text (wood-engravings) and 3 plates: Plate I – Map of Earthquake Cotidal Lines (coloured) / Plate II – [″Seismic waves” and illustrations of a seaquake] / Plate III – [Seaquake and development of a Tsunami Wave] Modern Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The very scarce original first edition of Mallet’s “groundbreaking” discovery. [From “The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume XXI, Part I].

30. [Middle East Collection with Kuwait / Iran (Persia) / Yemen / Jordan] Naylor, David (Dave).

Collection of two (2) large boxes with rare and sometimes inscribed, Printed Materials and very rare Geological Surveys with Maps (for example it includes the very rare Geological Survey of Iran) from the private Reference- library of Geologist Prof. David (Dave) Naylor regarding Kuwait, Iraq (near Basrah), Lebanon, Jordan (Halat Ammar and Al Mudawwara), Jordan in general, Arava Valley (Dead Sea). See a full list of the contents below. These materials are all publications, sometimes official government papers or maps or academic publications from fellow geologists as well as for example official publications of talks given for OAPEC. All publications are revolving around the evaluation of Petroleum Deposits, Petroleum Geology and Stratigraphy or Hydrocarbon in the “Near and Middle East” – Maps and Charts and offprints, all of them rare publications and some only reprinted for private circulation. The focus of the publications ranges from very scientific-geological (″The Fauna of some Recent Marine Deposits near Basrah, Iraq”) to actual problems of prospecting (″Some Problems of Petroleum Geology in Kuwait”). These two boxes are only the Middle East Section of the David Naylor Collection (see all the Materials we own from the David Naylor-Reference library on our website). The collection also includes books related to the region (inquire for separate list).

Amman (Jordan) / Kuwait / Mexico / Potsdam, etc., c.1958 – 2011. Quarto. c. 1200 pages plus maps. Hardcover Boxes / Two bespoke made Boxes for the private reference library of Geologist David (Dave) Naylor. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.