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Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
2-Aug-2014
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Description:
Books on Geology and Mining (5). Geikie, Archibald, Text-Book of Geology, London, Macmillan, 1882. First edition, Folding frontis., 435 text figs., xi,971pp., fore-edges spotted, thick 8vo., cloth gilt with some minor flecking, but generally a nice copy; Truscott, S.J., the Witwatersrand Goldfields. Banket & Mining Practice, London, Macmillan, 1898, Approx. 200 plates, figs, diagrams, some folding, 3 folding tables, xxiii,493pp., sporadic spots of pale foxing, 4to., cloth slightly dusty, gilt crest of parliamentary library on front cover and ownership stamp on title page, no other marks; Browne, Rev. G.F., Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland. a Narrative of Subterranean Exploration, London, Longmans Green, 1865, 13 wood-engraved illustrations and sections, (10),315pp., some pale browning to prelims, marbled endpapers and edges, 8vo., recent binding in 1/2 black calf, spine gilt with raised bands and contrasting label. Nice copy; Campbell, J[ohn] F[rancis], Frost and Fire. Natural Engines, Tool-Marks and Chips. with Sketches taken at Home and Abroad by a Traveller. (2 vols), Edinburgh, Edmonston & Douglas, 1867 [1865]. second Thousand, with Additions. Two volumes, Fold-out pictorial chart at end of vol.1, frontis map to vol.2., 117 wood-engraved illustrations in text, some full-page, (2)xxxi,(1),506 & xii,519pp., 8vo., publisher's blue cloth gilt, some minor wear to spine ends and spines slightly darkened. Very good internally; Greenwell, G.C., a Practical Treatise on Mine Engineering, New castle-upon-Tyne, M & M.W.Lambert, 1855. First edition, Frontis. and 61 litho plates printed in up to 5-6 colours, all but 4 double-page, (6),204pp., 4to, recent 1/2 black calf to style, spine gilt in panels, marbled boards. Some foxing and signs of use.
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Unclassified