Earth Sciences - Geology
202 items found
Waagen, W. H.
Serie XIII. Salt-Range Fossils. I. Productus-Limestone fossils: i. Pisces - Cephalopoda [AND] 2. Pisces - Cephalopoda Supplement. Gasteropoda. [AND] iii. Pelecypoda.
Calcutta, Geological Survey of India, 1879-1881. Three parts in three. Folio (36.0 x 26.5 cm). pp. [i: 1-72; 2 (1880): 73-183 (184 blank); iii: 185-328]; 24 fine, lithographed plates [i: I-VI; 2: VII-XVI; iii: XVII-XXIV]. Original, uniform printed wrappers.
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Wahlenberg, G.
De vegetatione et climate in Helvetia Septentrionali inter flumina Rhenum et Arolam observatis et cum summi septentrionis comparatis tentamen.
Turici Helvetorum (Zürich), Fuessli, 1813. 8vo (20.5 x 12.1 cm). xcviii, 200 pp.; one folding table, three folded engraved plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornaments at head and food; red morocco label with gilt title. All edges red.
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Wang, H. [et al.]
Mollusca, Foraminifera, Ostracoda, Bryozoa. In: Tertiary palaeontology of north continental shelf of South China Sea.
Guangdong, Guangdong Science and Technology Press, 1981. 4to (26.0 x 18.4 cm). 274 pp.; 108 plates. Publishers's cloth with gilt and blue title on boards and spine.
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Watelet, [J. F.] A.
Description des plantes fossiles du Bassin de Paris.
Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1866. Two volumes (text and atlas) in two. 4to (29.8 x 23.4 cm). 264 pp.; 30 pp. and 60 lithographed plates. Uniform contemporary quarter calf over printed boards. Spines with gilt titles. Speckled edges.
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Wheeler, G. M.
Report upon United States Geographical Surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, in charge of Capt. Geo. M. Wheeler. Vol. I. - Geographical report.
Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1889. Large, thick 4to (29.3 x 23.5 cm). 780 pp.; 38 fine, tinted lithographed plates (several in chromolithography, tissue-guarded), three (very) large folded maps [listed as plates I-XXXVIII and Maps 1-3]. Publisher's embossed cloth. Spine with gilt vignette and title. Printed errata slip bound in; Wheeler's printed compliments tipped in on the front pastedown.
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Willis, B. (ed.)
Research in China. In three volumes and atlas. 1(1). Descriptive topography and geology; 1(2). Petrography and zoology; 2. Systematic geology; 3. The Cambrian faunas of China. A report on Ordovician fossils collected in eastern Asia in 1903-04. A report on Upper Paleozoic fossils collected in China 1903-04; [4.] Geographical and geological maps. [Complete].
Washington, DC, The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1907-1913. In five parts (four text and plate volumes, one atlas). 4to (29.8 x 24.0 cm). Text; 101 plates, including six chromolithographs of birds, and geological maps; folio atlas (52.7 x 45.0 cm) with 42 mostly coloured geological and topographical maps (some with explanatory text or figures). Original printed wrappers.
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Winkler, T. C.
Histoire de l'ichnologie. Étude ichnologique sur les empreintes de pas d'animaux fossiles suivi de la description des plaques à l'impression d'animaux qui se trouvent au Musée Teyler.
Haarlem, Les Héritiers Loosjes, 1886. Large 8vo (28.5 x 18.8 cm). [vi] 200, iv pp., 12 lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers.
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Wood, S. V.
A monograph of the Crag Mollusca, with descriptions of shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the British Isles. Part I. Univalves. Part II. Bivalves. Part III. Supplement to the Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, with descriptions of shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the east of England. Vol. III. Univalves and bivalves. [Part IV] Second supplement to the Crag Mollusca, comprising testacea from the Upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Univalves and bivalves. [Part V]. Third supplement to the Crag Mollusca, comprising testacea from the Upper Tertiaries of the east of England. [Complete].
London, The Palaeontographical Society, [1848-] 1850-1882. Five volumes in two. 4to (27.3 x 22.0 cm). 912 pp. [xii, 208; 342, 2; xxxi, 231; ii, 58; (ii), 24]; several text figures, 72 [21;31;13;6;1] lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves; one very large, multi-folded chart with profiles. Later uniform brown pebbled cloth with gilt title on the spines.
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Wright, J.
The British Carboniferous Crinoidea. Volumes I-II [FULL COMPLETE SET in ten original parts].
London, The Palaeontographical Society, 1950-1960. Two volumes in ten. 4to (27.8 x 21.7 cm). xxx, 347 pp.; 83 plates. Uniform original blue/grey wrappers with printed paper label on front wrappers.
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