Sprigg reg (15 résultats)

Hardback. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards. Hint of rubbing to spine tail. With colour and black & white photographs, maps, drawings, graphs and diagrams. Previous owners name to prelims (twice). 295 pages. A look at this spectacular region by renowned Australian geologist, Reg Sprigg.…

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. Covers & Spine: front and back showing light scuffing & signs of handling otherwise undamaged, minimal wear along edges and at corners, two-staple spine is intact and solid. Binding: firm throughout. Pages & Markings: unstained, only marking is surname of previous owner top of opening page otherwise clean throughout. PLEASE NOTE: Due to this item weighing less than 500g, postage cost for international orders (i.e. not Australian) will be less than what is shown here. Please email me if you would like a quote. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.…

Hardback. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 18x25cm]. Very Good+ condition in pictorial laminated boards. An excellent copy. Black & white cartoons and photographs. Cartoons by Stephen Stanley ("Lafferty"). Previous owners details and cataloging information to preliminary pages. Signmed and inscribed by author to previous owners and signed again on title page. 349 pages. Reg Sprigg worked for the South Australian Geological Survey, which sent him to reopen the Radium Hill Uranium Field in 1944, and to map the Mount Painter uranium field. When he discovered the fossils, apparently while eating his lunch, he realised that these fossils were very ancient, either of Early Cambrian, or possibly even of Precambrian age. He submitted a paper to Nature, but it was turned down. He travelled to London and presented his findings to the 1948 International Geological Congress, but failed to excite either interest or belief. Subsequent work by the University of Adelaide demonstrated that they were indeed of latest Precambrian age. Although Precambrian animal fossils had been reported before, they had not been universally accepted as organic. This discovery led ultimately to the erection in 2004 of the Ediacaran Period, the first new geological period created in more than one hundred years. In 1968, he purchased the pastoral lease of Arkaroola, a property and important uranium exploration field of 610 square kilometres in the Flinders Ranges, and turned it into a wildlife refuge and tourist attraction.…

Hard Cover. Etat de la jaquette : None Issued. First Edition. 8vo. original pictorial laminated boards; pp. [ii (last blank)], 298, with illustrations & maps. A fine copy. Flatsigned by author to the title page, Reg. C. Sprigg'. Signed by Author.

1st edition softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy octavo. 64pp., col. & b/w pls., text ills., maps, Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy.

Soft Cover. Etat : VG+. First Edition. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed & marked, neatlky sealed-on protective plastic covering, prev. owner's address label to first page); pp. [ii], 64, with illustrations & maps. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Covers & Spine: both front and back glossy picture-boards are undamaged with minimal wear along the edges and corners, spine showing slight sun-fading but remains intact with only minor bumping at ends. Binding: firm throughout, both hinges strong. Pages & Markings: unstained, only markings are name of previous owner (crossed out) and name sticker (scratched over) both top of opening page otherwise clean throughout. No dust jacket as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Due to this item weighing more than 1 kg with packaging, postage cost for international orders (i.e. not Australian) may be more than what is shown here. Please email me if you would like a quote. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks. …

Large 8vo. 295pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy. Signed by the author.

Stapled Wrappers. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. Very Good With A Small Rust Stain On The Top Rear Corner Pp 64, Endpaper Maps Illustrations .

1st edition laminated boards As New octavo. 295pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., maps, diags..

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. 298 pages. (SA Hist. A, blue, brown with red title, A4. Signed by Author(s).

1st edition pictorial boards Nice copy octavo. 295pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., maps, diags., Signed by Reg Sprigg on the half-title page. Piece clipped from front end paper o/w a nice copy.

1st edition pictorial boards As New octavo. 294pp., colour plates, text ills., maps, diags..

First Edition. Pp. 298, 20 coloured plates, numerous black & white text illustrations, text and endpaper maps, references, corrigenda; small cr. 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; Arkaroola, Adelaide, 1984. First edition. *Signed by the author on the title page. Reg Sprigg (1919-1994) was an Australian geologist and conservationist. In 1968 he purchased the pastoral lease of Arkaroola, in the Flinders Ranges, and converted it into a wildlife refuge and tourist attraction. Signed.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. [Adelaide], The Author, 1989. Quarto, x, 349 pages with 3 maps and numerous 'Cartoons by Stephen Stanley ("Lafferty")'. Colour-pictorial papered boards unevenly sunned on the spine; an excellent copy. The half-title is signed by the author ('of Arkaroola Wildlife Sanctuary | Flinders Ranges South Australia'). Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed by him (2 pages octavo, being the outer pages of a bifolium with his printed letterhead, 14 January 1994). The letter is addressed to a former colleague, Mrs Patricia Brooks. The first part of the letter deals with the forthcoming reunion, at Arkaroola in March, of former employees of Geosurveys, the company he formed in 1954, 'one of Australias earliest geological and geophysical consultancy companies' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). 'Quite a number of outsiders wanted to "break in". Lenny Beadell and one or two others are permissable! . Sadly many have passed on . So many have died only in the last year - I suppose that is to be expected - and one wonders when one will be next? . I have had more than half a dozen near misses, viz (1) Diving mishaps. (2) Aircraft forced landings (3 in one day!!) (3) brain haemorrhage, (4) Hepatitis . (5) four heart bye-passes and (6) one heart attack since. Not bad really. I can't now complain but hope I make it to and beyond the Geosurveys Reunion'. He did that, but not by much . 'Reginald Claude Sprigg (1919-1994), geologist and ecotourism operator . died on 2 December 1994 in Glasgow while on holiday in Scotland. His ashes were scattered at Arkaroola. Awards, a lecture series, a mineral, an undersea canyon, and a research centre at the University of Adelaide, among other things, have been named after him' (ADB). Some obituaries and related ephemera are also loosely inserted. Signed.…