Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1918. Wraps. First Edition. 130 pp. 4to. Wear and scuffing to covers, chipping at edges, reinforced tape was applied to spine. Pages have darkened from age, clean within, rare cover missing. Illustrated with 23 black and white photographic plates. Good. More
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1915. Hardcover. First Edition. xv, 422 pp. 4to. Blue cloth publsiher's binding with a gold embossed image of the earth surrounded by the symbols of the Zodiac. Top edge gilt. Heavily illustrated with color plates, line cuts, and duotones. Very Good. More
Paris: Chez Crochard, 1820. Quarter Leather. First Edition. 448 pp., 8vo. Quarter leather binding with brown leather spine and marbled boards. Spine has four raised bands with black leather patch title with gold embossed titling. A very nicely executed later binding originally published in wraps. Light wear at edges. Ex-Library with small ink stamp on title page and at base of page 5. Very clean within.
Two papers by famous scientists describing theories of the cooling of the earth. Laplace's article, "Sur la Diminution de la durée du jour par le refroidissement de la terre" pp. 410-417, 1820; Fourier's article, "Extrait d'un Memoire sur le Refroidissement seculaire du globe terrestre" pp. 418-438. Fine. More
Atchison, KS: Edwin D. McKee, 1936. Wraps. Third Edition. xi, 50 pp. 8vo. Green paper covers. Gift inscription in pencil on first free endpaper. Very Good. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1963. Hardcover. First Edition. 1434, LV pp. 4to. Green library binding, ex-library with stamp of "Technical Library, U.S. Naval Propellant Plant, Indian Head, Maryland" on first free endpaper, title page, and final free endpaper. No other library markings present Clean within.
An early paper by James Peebles (b. 1935) who was named a Nobel Laureate in Physics in 2019 for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.
Volume also contains J. Tuzo William's article, "Did the Atlantic Close and then Re-Open?” (pp. 676-681) where Wilson first proposes the theory of "Continental Drift." Very Good. More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 464 pp. 4to. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small tear at base of front panel, minor sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. Orange cloth boards, very clean within. Fine / Very Good. More
Phillips, ME: John Wade, Publisher, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. 177 pp. 8vo. Slight sunning to spine, scuffing to covers, clean within.
Signed by the author on the half-title page. Very Good. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1963. Hardcover. First Edition. 1434, LV pp. 4to. Green library binding, ex-library with stamp of "Technical Library, U.S. Naval Propellant Plant, Indian Head, Maryland" on first free endpaper, title page, and final free endpaper. No other library markings present Clean within.
Wilson first proposes the theory of "Continental Drift."
Also contains James Peeble's “Origin of the Microwave Radio Background” (pp. 574-575) Peebles was named a Nobel Laureate in Physics in 2019 for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology. Very Good. More