Description: BOUND VOLUME OF U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETINS SPANNING 1884 THROUGH 1886 AND INCLUDING BULLETINS #8-12, #14, #17, #20 and #28, most are focused on aspects of mineralogy and petrology though Walcott's classic report on the Cambrian Faunas of North America is also present. The volume is bound with quarter calf on period marbled boards, chips and splits to leather spine cover which is half loose and needs to be re-glued, ex-lib. copy with stamps from Anaconda Copper and Arco corporations as well as one F. Aug. Heinze of Butte Montana, contents with some wear but generally the bulletins are clean and very good with one exception which is Bull. #14 on Iron Carburets which is lacking title and preliminary pages but text is complete. Contents of the volume (9 Bulletins total) include: #8 Irving R. D. and Van Hise C. R. 1884 ON SECONDARY ENLARGEMENTS OF MINERAL FRAGMENTS IN CERTAIN ROCKS with 56 pp., 6 plates, 4 figures. #9 Clarke F. W. and Chatard T. M. 1884 A REPORT OF WORK DONE IN THE WASHINGTON LABORATORY DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 1883-84 with 56 pp., 4 figures. #10 ON THE CAMBRIAN FAUNAS OF NORTH AMERICA PRELIMINARY STUDIES By Charles Doolittle Walcott 1884 with 74 pp. and 10 plates of fossils including trilobites. #11 Call R. E. and Gilbert . K. 1884 ON THE QUATERNARY AND RECENT MOLLUSCA OF THE GREAT BASIN WITH A DESCRIPTION OF NEW FORMS with 66 pp., 6 plates of fossils. #12 Dana E. D. 1884 A CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE THINOLITE OF LAKE LAHONTAN with 34 pp., 1 plate, figs. #14 Barus C. and Strouhal V. 1885 THE ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF THE IRON CARBURETS with 238 pp. and 31 figs. #17 ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRYSTALLIZATION IN THE IGNEOUS ROCKS OF WASHOE NEVADA WITH NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT By Hague and Iddings 1885 with 44 pp on the Comstock Lode and Washoe Mining District of Nevada. #20 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MINERALOGY OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS By Cross and Hillebrand 1885 with 112 pp. and 1 plate. #28 Willimas G. H. 1886 THE GABBROS AND ASSOCIATED HORNEBLENDE ROCKS OCCURRING IN THE NIEGHBORHOOD OF BALTIMORE MD with 59 pp., 4 plates and 2 figures. Buyer/highest bidder pays shipping, payments via Ebay preferred. Items shipped within 5 business days from receipt and clearance of payment, tracking will be posted. For more geology paleontology gold silver and other ore mining mineralogy and related geoscience and natural history books bulletins atlases and maps, please browse my other auctions. Note: Most of our listings offer both combined shipping for $1.50 per additional item and occasional discounts, both applied using Ebay in-house listing options.
Price: 29.99 USD
Location: Faribault, Minnesota
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Region: North America
Topic: Geology
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Science & Medicine
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1884
