Edited joseph davis (7 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Good +. No Jacket. Revised Edition. Normal scuffs, soils and creasing; a decent copy. 412 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. B00AVEAEB0 Blue boards, illustration printed in black and white, black and white titling. Solid binding, wear on edges and corners. Surfaces rubbed. Minimal notations in light pencil.

Stanford: Stanford University Press, copyright 1948. xi,182 pages. Portrait. 8.75x5.5", cloth, dj. Head, Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, director Stanford University Food Research Institute, Giannini Foundation for Agricultural Economics Research, University of California, reprints 'Progress in Chemistry & Theory of Population' & 'What Social Scientist Can Learn from Natural Scientist.' Dj chipped, worn, bookplate, VG/G.…

Soft cover. Etat : New. xxi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. Contents: Iddings' petrographic education: Graduate study at Yale ; The influence of Clarence King ; In Heidelberg with Rosenbusch ; Iddings meets Hague -- Assistant geologist with USGS I: Eureka, Nevada ; Washoe District/Virginia City, Nevada ; Early petrographic studies ; New acquaintances ; Petrography of Pacific volcanoes ; Rosenbusch and Zirkel ; Relations with Wadsworth -- Assistant geologist with USGS II: Washoe and the relation of rock names to geologic age ; Volcanic rocks of Central America ; Theories of variation -- Yellowstone country I: Introduction to Yellowstone ; Return to Eureka ; New Jersey lavas ; Obsidian Cliff ; Rhyolite ; Igneous rock structure in the Gallatin Mountains ; Breccias -- Yellowstone country II: Volcanic cores ; Haystack Mountain ; The Crazy Mountain ; A translation project ; Solutions and the crystallization of magmas ; Electric Peak -- Igneous rock classification and differentiation: The problem of rock classification ; Rosenbusch's new classification ; Collaboration with Rosenbusch? ; Reaction to Iddings' paper on Electric Peak ; The origin of igneous rocks -- Europe and Chicago: Impressions of John Judd ; A visit with J.J.H. Teall ; Reunion with Rosenbusch ; A visit to Mount Vesuvius ; The Lipari Islands ; Sicily ; Paris and London ; The Fifth International Geological Congress ; The call to Chicago -- Rethinking igneous rock classification: Approach to the classroom ; A letter from Pirsson ; Replies to Iddings' letter ; The Washington conference and its aftermath ; The four preliminary essays ; More conferences ; A joint textbook? -- A second trip to Europe: More summer fieldwork? ; Summer of 1893 in Europe ; Camping with Henry Adams and John Hay ; A plea from Johns Hopkins ; Henry S. Washington ; Charles Van Hise -- The Seventh International Geological Congress: Scandinavia ; The Seventh International Geological Congress ; Post-Congress field excursions. The quantitative igneous rock classification: Agitation over the state of igneous rock classification ; Brogger's view ; Iddings' papers on rock classification ; Reaction to the two papers ; International committee on igneous rock nomenclature ; Renewed collaboration on a quantitative classification ; Working relations within the C.I.P.W. quartet ; Discarding and accepting facets of the classification ; Anxiety as the end approaches -- Reception of the classification and new challenges: Reception of the C.I.P.W. igneous rock classification ; The founding of the Geophysical Laboratory ; Mining litigation ; Brogger in America -- Major publications: Arthur L. Day and feldspars ; A new textbook on rock minerals ; Directorship of the U.S. Geological Survey ; Adventures at home and abroad ; Volume I of Igneous rocks ; Retrospect on the summer of 1908 -- Journey to the Orient : Japan: The dream ; En route to the Pacific ; In Japan ; Trip to northern Japan ; Return to Honshu -- Journey to the Orient : Korea and China: Korea ; Fossil hunting in Manchuria ; Iddings in China -- Journey to the Orient : the Philippines and Japan: Hong Kong ; Luzon ; Iddings assesses the prospects of the Philippines ; Petrological work ; Back to Japan ; Kyushu ; Shikoku ; Back on Honshu -- Journey to the Orient : the East Indies: On the China Sea ; Singapore ; Java ; Celebes ; Sumatra -- Igneous rocks II: Homeward bound ; From Aden to Suez ; Genoa to England ; Volume II of Igneous rocks ; The reception of volume II -- Problems: Flashback ; Reaction to "Problems in petrology" ; The problem of volcanism ; Lectures in Great Britain ; The second journey around the world -- Return to the East Indies: On the sea ; In Java again. …

Unbound. Etat : Very Good. Periodical, newspaper format. Folio wrappers. 12pp. Folded in half (as issued), light wear, very good being American poet Joel Oppenheimer's copy with his "Westbeth" address label affixed to the front wrapper.

Hardcover. Etat : Brand New. 1st edition. 488 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Second Edition, Revised Royal 8vo, pp.lviii[6],487, 25 cms by 16. Frontispiece, 40 plates (2 folding), type specimens, and other illustrations within the text. Blue buckram, spine gilt. Yellow pictorial dust-jacket printed in maroon and black. Fine in very good indeed complete clean dust jacket. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.…