Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott , Early Reprint, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pagination restarts at each of the 7 parts, and they're approximately 100 pages each. Hardcover. Covers are bumped, with significant edge wear. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W illustrations throughout. This book aimed to provide a comprehensive introduction to various scientific fields, including animal and plant biology, geology, physics, chemistry, and physiology, all divided into seven distinct sections. Clean copy. Record # 33945
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 180 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, black cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W graphs and tables throughout. In this book, Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life's relationship with the Earth's biosphere--one that has frightening implications for our future, yet also offers hope. Using the latest discoveries from the geological record, he argues that life might be its own worst enemy. Clean copy. Record # 34364
Hardcover. NY, DK Publishing, Reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, pictorial boards, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography throughout. This lavish visual guide captures the drama, power, and beauty of the Earth's features, taking the reader on an incredible journey from undersea canyons to lush rain forests, over polar ice caps, and beyond. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34413
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, General university textbook. Dark green cloth covers w/ light rubbing to corners. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Publisher's stamp on title page. Else a very clean, tight copy. Record # 54290
Paperback. Washington, DC, G.P.O., 1st wraps, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 70 fold-out maps in rear, another chart in rear pocket. Outer wraps a bit worn, short tears, internally VG with all maps present
Hardcover. New York, Saxton Barker, early rep., 1861, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1861 on title page. A scientific treatise on agricultural chemistry, the geology of agriculture; on plants, animals, manures, and soils. Applied to practical agriculture. Dark green cloth embossed with designs of farm animals. Gilt illustration and lettering on spine. Yellow endpages - plate of agricultural library inside paste-down. 10 p. ads in back. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, William Denton, 1st, 1870, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Brown cloth covers w/ staining, rubbing. Foxing to end papers. Small stain to top edge. Else pages, clean and tight.
Softcover. Rome, Pontificia Academia Scientiarum, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 418 pages, many b&w illustrations. A collection of lectures/papers on geological activity. Text in French, English and German. Copy of noted geologist Maurice Ewing with his signature on front wrapper. Light wear with a few notations by Ewing in margins.
Hardcover. London, Mining World & Engineering Record, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A guide to gold mining in Western Australia, 111 pages with b&w illustrations, folding color map of The Golden Mile with various mining companies activity. Color illustrated boards with black cloth spine, light soil.
Hardcover. San Francisco, W.H. Freeman and Co., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of 17 articles from Scientific American on the earth's plates shifting, illustrated in b&w and 2-colors. 230 pages, decorated boards. Clean, very good.
Softcover. Columbus OH, Byrd Polar Research Center, Revised Ed., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages printed on one side only, b&w illustrations. Softcover with black comb plastic binding. Publication No. 236 in the Center's series. Previous owner's signature on covers and sides, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Bradbury Soden & Co., 1st thus, 1844, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 352 pages, frontispiece engraving with tissue guard, extra engraved title page, many b&w text illustrations. Brown cloth with black leather spine stamped in gilt. Pages with tanning to edges, text illustrations have a pencilled number by them starting at 315 on the frontis to 348 on page 141 where the lettering stops for the rest if the book. Covers show mottling, discoloration to fore-edges, front and rear. Interior clean, binding tight.
Hardcover. Boston, Bradbury Soden & Co., 1st thus, 1845, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 352 pages, frontispiece engraving with tissue guard, extra engraved title page, some ful-page plus many text illustrations. Brown cloth with black leather spine stamped in gilt. Covers show mottling, discoloration to fore-edges, front and rear. Interior clean, binding tight.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, 1st, April 15, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 254 pages, b&w photographs and diagrams. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light foxing to bottom edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Bellew Publishing Co Ltd, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 102 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Prentice Hall, 6th, January 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 647 pages, color photographs and diagrams. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, illustrated throughout with stunning photos in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Softcover. Chicago, Ill., Haymarket Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 458988
Hardcover. New York, Harpercollins, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 356 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with minute tear to upper edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Slight bump to lower edges of boards. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
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