21. [Poland Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – Birecki, Tadeusz / Cizancourt, Henry De / Dzulynski, Stanislaw / Radomski, Andrzej / Smith, Alec J. / Kinle, J. / Tokarski, Adam / Sokolowski, J.

Collection of ten (10) important publications on the Geology of Poland from the William Daniel Gill Collection. The collection includes the following publications (all first editions): 1. J.Sokolowski and A.Tokarski – “The Present State of Oil and Gas Geological Prospection in Poland” (1969) (together with a large colourful Tectonic Map of Poland: “Mapa Tektoniczna Polski” (Map is from 1974)) / 2. Adam Tokarski – “O stratygrafii salinarnego retu monokliny przedsudeckiej” (1965) / 3. Stanislaw Dzulynski – “O Zagadkowych Hieroglifach Na Gornych Powierzchniach Piaskowcow Beloweskich” [Translates: “Problematic hieroglyphs of probable organic origin from the Beloveza beds (Western Carpathians)] (1957) / 4. Stanislaw Dzulynski and Andrzej Radomski – “Pochodzenie sladow wleczenia na tle teorii pradow zawiesinowych” (1955) / 5. Stanislaw Dzulynski and Alec J.Smyth – “Flysch Facies” (english) – Inscribed and signed by Smith (1964) / 6. Stanislaw Dzulynski and Andrzej Radomski – “Zagadnienie Zyl Klastycznych w Osadach Fliszowych Na Tle Sedymetacji Fliszu Karpackiego” (Translates: “Clastik dikes in the Carpathian Flysch” / with an english section in the publication) (1957) / 7. Henry de Cizancourt – “Geology of Oil Fields of Polish Carpathian Mountains” (1931) / 8. Tadeusz Birecki – “Budowa Geologiczna Synkliny Bobowej” (1964) / 9. Julian Sokolowski – “Rola Halokinezy W Rozwoju Osadow Mezozoicznych I Kenozoicznych Struktury Mogilna I Synklinorium Mogilensko-Lodzkiego” [Translates: “The Role of Halokinesis in the Development of Mesozoic And Cainozoic Deposits of the Mogilno Structure and of the Mogilno-Lodz Synclinorum” – with 16 figures and 2 plates] (1966) / 10. Adam Tokarski – Udzial wapienia muszlowego w budowie Przedgorza Karpat (1965) /

1931 – 1969. Octavo and Quarto. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Many publications inscribed and signed.

22. [Iran / Persia Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – Lees, George Martin / BP (British Petroleum Co.) / W.F.P. McLintock / W.D.Gill / H.J.Ansari / M.Davoudzadeh / A.F.Fox .

Collection of eight (8) important publications on the Geology and Oil / Gas Exploration of Iran / Persia from the collection of Geologist William Daniel Gill. The collection includes: 1. Activity Report of the Geological Survey of Iran – With a section on “Other Geological Activities in Iran” (Tehran – 12-16 May 1974) / 2. G.M.Lees – “The World’s Oilfields – Eastern Hemisphere” – “The Middle East” (With Diagrams on Persia, Iraq, Bahrein, Saudi Arabia, Qatar etc.) (c.1970) / 3. BP (The british Petroleum Company) – “Oil and Gas in Southwest Iran” (1956) / 4. W.F.P. McLintock – “On the metamorphism produced by the combustion of hydrocarbons in the Tertiary sediments of south-west Persia [IRAN] (1932) / 5. George Martin Lees – “Salzgletscher in Persien” (1927) / 6. H.J.Ansari – “Geology of Southern Meyaneh Basin in Azarbayjan, Iran” (1965) / 7. M.Davoudzadeh – “Geology and Petrography of the Area North of Nain, Central Iran” (With two maps in a pocket to the rear) (1972) / 8. W.D.Gill – “Petroleum Source Rocks and the Origin of Oil and Gas in Iran, Pakistan and the North Sea” – With a photograph of W.D.Gill inside the publication (Published in Tehran in 1978 – The Bulletin of The Iranian Petroleum Institute” (First Quarter) /

1932 – 1972. Octavo and Quarto. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

23. Davis, Raymond E. & Wallace Kelly, Joe.

Short Course in Surveying.

First Edition. New York & London, McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc, 1942. 12.5cm x 19.5cm. XII, 330 pages. Original Hardcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

24. [Agricola, Georgius]. Hoover, Herbert Clark, and Hoover, Lou Henry.[translators].

De Re Metallica – Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556.

New York, Dover Publications, 1950. 18 cm x 28 cm. XXXI, 638 pages. Original Hardcover. Endpaper and pastedown with staining !! Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very slight foxing to paper edges and discoloration to inside of Hardcover. Title page folded and with minor tear.

25. [Gill, William Daniel (W.D.)].

Collection of Printed Materials / Offprints / Publications / Papers, Essays by english geologist, William Daniel Gill (1916 – 1922) [plus dozens of offprints from colleagues, sent to Gill (see full List on our website under the section “Libraries & Collections”]. This extensive collection of materials, authored by this eminent geologist, was once part of the Reference-library of his colleague David (Dave) Naylor but sells here separately. You find a detailed account of Gill’s own publications at the end of this description. The collection also includes the original offprint of his landmark-publication “Sand Volcanoes on Slumps in the Carboniferous of County Clare, Ireland”, which he authored together with P.H.Kuehnen in 1957 [and which is here included with a typescript of the work included with manuscript-corrections by Gill in the text]. Besides his own works in offprints, there are dozens of pamphlets and offprints by fellow colleagues which were sent to Gill during his career, often with signatures or inscriptions (and one letter) by the authors to Gill. Important: Noteworthy is also a section of pamphlets / offprints which Gill had received from the library of Professor Louis Bouvier Smyth (″L.B.Smyth”). Included is a large amount of original papers Louis Bouvier Smyth published, starting as early as the year 1915 (!). This section is catalogued in detail as well as several works of W.D. Gill’s Professor and Teacher, english geologist and palaeontologist, Robert George Spencer Hudson. See all items which are part of the William Daniel Gill collection on our website under “Libraries and Collections”.

England / Ireland, c.1950 – 1990. Octavo / Quarto. Hardcover Box / Bespoke made Box, labelled “General Gill” , for the private library of Prof.David (Dave) Naylor. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

26. [General Petroleum Exploration Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – BP (British Petroleum Co.) [N.L.Falcon – BP House – Ropemaker Street] / Robert A. Boulware / and many others.

Collection of twentyfive (25) important publications on the Geology and Oil / Gas Exploration of the World from the collection of Geologist William Daniel Gill. The collection is housed inside a Solander Box labelled “Petroleum General” and includes interesting clippings on″Diverse Strategies of State Oil Companies”, interesting offprints, pamphlets and also Development – Sheets with Diagrams sent by BP to W.D.Gill. Included are for example: 1. Robert A. Boulware – “Seismic Exploration For Stratigraphic Traps in Canada” with sheets with revised Figures sent by N.L.Falcon at BP – “Bioherm Reef Developments Shaded” / 2. Anny B. Coury – “Bibliography for a Map of Prospective Hydrocarbon Provinces in the World” (1979) / 3. Peter Fitzgerald Moore (Shell Canada Ltd.) – “The Use of Geological Models in prospecting for Stratigraphic Traps” / 4. Gill’s personal copies of publications from the 7th World Petroleum Congress in Mexico 1967 (With a photographic section of places at which Petroleum Congresses happened before) / 5. Linton, D.L. and Moseley, F. – “The Geological Ages” (1968) / 6. Heinz Beckmann – “Modern Methods of Pay Evaluation in Oil and Gasfields” (1964) / 7. Theodore A. Link – “Theory of Transgressive and Regressive Reef (Bioherm) Development and Origin of Oil” (1950) / and many more publications like these.

1950 – c. 1990. Octavo and Quarto. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

27. [English History Collection] – Miller, T.G.

Geology & Scenery in Britain.

London, B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1953. Octavo. 224 pages. Illustrated with many photographs. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Some stronger signs of foxing ! Unusual in the beautiful dustjacket.

28. [R.G.S.Hudson Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – Hudson, R.G.S.

Collection of seven (7) important publications on the Geology of Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq by William Daniel Gill’s Professor and Teacher, english geologist and palaeontologist Robert George Spencer Hudson. The collection includes the following publications (First Editions) by R.G.S.Hudson: 1.Jurassic Stromatoporoids from Southern Arabia. (1954) / 2. Sequanian Stromatooroids from South-West Arabia. (1955) / 3. The Arabian Plate – Producing Fields and Undeveloped Hydrocarbon Discoveries (Large Folding Map from the Year 1990) / 4. Jurassic Stromatoporoids from The Lebanon (1954) / 5. Tethyan Jurassic Hydroids of the Family Milleporidiidae (1956) / 6. The Stromatoporoid Genus Millestroma Gregory (1953) / 7. The Fauna of Some Recent Marine Deposits Nerar Basrah, Iraq (1957) //

1953-1956. Quarto and Octavo. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Most of the publications stamped “With the author’s compliments”. All publications from the library of William Daniel Gill.

29. [David Naylor Geology & Petroleum Collection] – 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.

30. [Romania / Carpathian Section – William Daniel Gill Collection] – Grigorias, N. / Constantinescu, N. / Sandulescu, Mircea / Murgeanu, G. / Patruy, I. / Popescu, M. / Manolescu, G. / Soare, E. / Patrulius, D. / Petrisor, I. / Pauliuc, S. / Costea, I. / Danet, T. / Boncev, Ekim.

Collection of sixteen (16) important publications on the Geology of Romania and the Carpathian Region from the William Daniel Gill Collection. The collection includes the following publications (all first editions): 1. N. Grigoras and N. Constantinescu – “Geological Activity for Oil and Gas in the Socialist Republic of Rumania” (1969) / 2. N. Grigoras and I. Patrut and M.Popescu – Contributi La Cunoasterea Evolutiei Geologice A Platformei Moesice De Pe Teritoriul R.P.R. (1961) / 3. N. Grigoras – “Rolul Depresiunilor Premontane In Formarea Rocilor Bitumoase Din R.P.R.” (1957) / 4. N.Grigoras – “Consideratii Privind Legile De Raspindire Ale Zacamintelor De Petrol Si Gaze Din R.P.R” (1961) / 5. N.Grigoras and S.Pauliuc and I. Costea – “Date Noi Privind Faciesurile Paleogenului Dintre Vaile Oituz Si Bistrita” (1966) / 6. N.Grigoras and S.Pauliuc and I.Costea – “Noi Contributii Privind Depozitele Paleogene Dintre Vaile Zabala Si Oituz” (1964) / 7. N.Grigoras and S.Pauliuc and I. Costea – “Date Noi Privind Depozitele Paleogene Dintre Valea Putnei Si Valea Buzaului” (1963) / 8. N.Grigoras and T. Danet – “Contributi La Cunoasterea Sisturilor Verzi Dobrogene” (1961) / 9. N.Grigoras – “Contributiuni La Cunoasterea Geologie Reg.Craiova – Caracal”(1961) / 10. N.Grigoras – “Geologie des Cisements de Petrole et de Gaz en Roumanie” (1966) – Inscribed and signed by N.Grigoras / 11. Ekim Boncev – “Probleme der Lineamenttekonik im oestlichen Teil der Balkanhalbinsel” (1965) / 12. G.Manolescu and E.Soare – “Unity of the Nature of the Relative Permeability Curves in Relation with The Different Wetting Fluid Phases of a Porous Medium and Possibility of their Analytical Expression” (1962) / 13. D.Patrulius – “Olistolitele Masivului Bucegi” (1963) – Inscribed and signed by Dan Patrulius to William Daniel Gill / 14. Mircea Sandulescu – “Stratigrafia Si Tectonica Molasei Micocene Din Regiunea Valea Mare – Berzunt – Onesti”(1959) / 15. M.Sandulescu – “La Structure de la Zone Cristallino-Mesozoique de L’Interieur de la Courbure des Carpathes” (1965) / 16. Geological Map of Poland – “Harta Geologica” Scara 1:200.000 – No.36. “Ploiesti” Nota explicativa de: M. Sandulescu et. al. (1968) /

1957 – 1969. Octavo and Quarto. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Many publications inscribed and signed.