Geologia e paleontologia

A Sketch of Modern and Antient Geography

Samuel Butler · 1824 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. Leather. A sixth edition of this detailed study of modern and ancient geography from English scholar, Samuel Butler. Sixth edition. Intended for the use of schools, this work explores the changes and developments in m...

The Geology of Arran and Other Clyde Islands with an Account of the Botany, Natural History, and Antiquities, Notices of the Scenery and an Itinerary of the Routes

James Bryce · 1872 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

Glasgow and London, William Collins, 1872. Cloth. A smart fourth edition of this illustrated geological study of the Isle of Arran and other Clyde Islands. Fourth edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text images. Written originally to serve as a guide to th...

The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight

Rev. J. Cecil Hughes · 1922 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, Edward Stanford, Limited, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this illustrated geological history of the Isle of Wight. First edition. Very scarce. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensiv...

A Concise Description of the English Lakes, and Adjacent Mountains

Jonathan Otley · 1825 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.93 | ¥104,424)

London, Published by the author by John Richardson , 1825 . Leather. The second edition of Jonathan Otley's very scarce topographical work on English lakes and mountains, with a folding map. The second edition. First published in 1823. Bound in full calf, rebacked and wit...

Mendip - the Great Cave of Wookey Hole

H. E. Balch · 1932 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Wells, Clare, Son & Co. Ltd, 1932. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated second edition of this work on the Mendip caves. Second edition. Illustrated with coloured frontispiece and nineteen plates. Collated complete. Written for visitors to the Mendips, this work includes the histor...

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Volume XLVI. Part I. - Session 1907-8. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Volume XLVI. Part II. - Session 1908-9. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Volume XLVI. Part III. - Session 1908-9.

Edward Battersby Bailey; Francis Lewis; Ramsay Traquair; James Cosmo Melvill; et al · 1908 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, Robert Grant & Son, 1908-1909. Cloth. Volume 46 of Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, containing fascinating scientific essays, with 69 plates. In the publisher's original cloth binding This three volume set consists of: Part I of Vol. 46 of Transacti...

The Deserts of Southern France

S. Baring-Gould · 1894 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Methuen & Co. 1894. First edition. Cloth. A first edition examination of the geology of the Aquitaine region of France by Sabine Baring-Gould, illustrated throughout. With chapters on les Causses, la Crouzate, the Caussenards, the firehills of Cransac, le Puy d'Is...

Old Stones: Notes of Lectures on the Plutonic, Silurian, and Devonian Rocks in the Neighbourhood of Malvern

W.S. Symonds · 1855 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, H.W. Lamb, Royal Library, 1855. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of W.S. Symonds work on geology, bound decoratively by Bone & Son. A lovely copy of W.S. Symonds's series of lectures on geology. Beautifully bound in red cloth by Bone & Son; their binder&...

Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames

John Phillips · 1871 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1871. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of John Phillips"s geological work, a richly illustrated study of the Oxford region and the Thames Valley by one of the founders of modern stratigraphy. First edition.Illustrated with seventeen plates, ...

The Land of Britain: Its Use and Misuse

L. Dudley Stamp · 1948 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.74 | $58.13 | ¥9,282)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1948. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a book that comments on the comprehensive Land Utilisation Survey of Britain, including results, analysis and evaluation. The first edition of The Land of Britain: Its Use and Misuse, written by ...

The World&Apos;S Minerals

Leonard J. Spencer · 1922 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, W. & R. Chambers, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of this comprehensive account of minerals, illustrated in colour. The scarce first edition if the work.In publisher's original red cloth binding.Illustrated with forty beautiful coloured pla...

Sea-Side Studies at Ilfracombe, Tenby, the Scilly Isles, and Jersey

George Henry Lewes · 1860 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

Edinburgh & London , William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. Cloth. A detailed study of the sea-sides at Ilfracombe, Tenby, the Scilly Isles, and Jersey with a frontispiece and 6 further plates. The second edition of the work. In publisher's original decorative green cloth bin...

The Aerial World: A Popular Account of the Phenomena and Life of the Atmosphere

Dr. G. Hartwig · 1886 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1886. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated guide to the world's atmosphere by Dr. G. Hartwig, with a folding map. A new edition of this work. In the original decorative cloth binding, with gilt fore-edge. Illustrated with eight chromoxylogra...

The Testimony of the Rocks; or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed

Hugh Miller · 1857 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

Edinburgh, Thomas Constable and Co. 1857. Cloth. A smart seventeenth thousand of this illustrated collection of studies on natural history and geology. Seventeenth thousand. Illustrated with a frontispiece and one hundred and fifty-two in-text figures. A collection of natural ...

Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Volume XXII: 1931-1934

D. A. Wray [ed.]; R. G. S. Hudson [ed.] · 1934 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Manchester, Sherratt & Hughes, 1934 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce complete volume of the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, containing a wealth of geological essays and information from 1931 to 1934. A very scarce volume from the Society, being volume XXI...

What to Observe; or, the Traveller&Apos;S Remembrancer

Colonel J. R. Jackson [Julian R. Jackson] · 1845 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London, Madden and Malcolm, 1845 . Leather. The second edition of this very scarce guide from a talented geographer, in which the author instructs the reader on the scientific observations they should make when abroad. The second edition of this very scarce work, which was fir...

The Geological Evolution of Tibet: Report of the 1985 Royal Society - Academia Sinica Geotraverse of the Qinghai - Xizang Plateua

Chang Chengfa; Robert M Shackleton; John F. Dewey; Yin Jixiang · 1988 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, The Royal Society, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this geological study of Tibet with folding maps and micro-fiche maps on two film sheets. First edition. Illustrated throughout with in-text diagrams, a fold-out graph, seventeen plates, a large fold-out...

La Terre Et Les Mers, Ou, Description Physique Du Globe

Louis Figuier · 1864 · Rooke Books

£215.00 (€257.71 | $284.03 | ¥45,356)

Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1864. Leather. A French work on the Earth and its physical qualities by Louis Figuier, illustrated with vignettes and plates. Written by Louis Figuier, a French writer and scientist.With the ownership bookplate and inscription of John Bu...

The Ethics of the Dust Ten Lecture to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallization

John Ruskin · 1906 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, George Allen, 1906. Leather. A handsomely bound copy of John Ruskin's lectures on geology and minerals to a girls' school. An early edition of this work. Including lectures given by John Ruskin, honorary student of Christ Church and honorary fellow of Corpus ...

The Investigation of Mine Air

Clement le Neve Foster [ed.]; J. S. Haldane [ed.] · 1905 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.63 | $356.69 | ¥56,958)

London, Charles Griffin and Company, 1905. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce and interesting study of the air in mines, and consequent health effects. Illustrated with numerous diagrams. The scarce first edition of this work, with frontispiece and numerous scientific illustr...