johnson rare books & archives, ABAA (10 results)

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. "The purpose of this book is to help the climatologist understand the basic precepts of the statistician's art and to provide some of the background needed to apply statistical methodology correctly and usefully." Quarto: 484 p. with numerous textual figures. Original paper wrappers. Some general edgewear; otherwise very good.

Seller Inventory # 74748

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarto. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 68204

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Published in conjunction with the Society's October 11-12, 1980 field trip to the California Desert. 555 p. with numerous photographs, figures, maps, and tables. Quarto. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Minor crease to the spine; else crisp, clean, and very good.

Seller Inventory # 72726

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. ".presents the geomagnetic source fields - using a minimum of mathematics without sacrificing depth of coverage. A description of measurement methods and a thorough review of the societal impact and use of geomagnetic fields complete the main text." Octavo: 290 p. with numerous textual figures. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 74767

Wraps. Condition: Near fine. Inscribed "with the compliments of Eliot Blackwelder" on the front panel. Offprint of an article that appeared in Volume 45 of the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. Blackwelder (1880-1969) was head of the Department of Geology at Stanford University from 1922 to 1945. Octavo: p.551-566 with 3 figures. Original printed paper wrappers, bound with two staples. Near fine.

Seller Inventory # 76652

Wraps. Condition: Good. First Edition. "This pamphlet is in no sense a treatise on placer mining. It is intended to give simple practical instructions and advice to the inexperienced placer prospector and miner more particularly residents of the state who are more or less acquainted with conditions here and who must live as cheaply as possible, with some chance at least partly to support themselves." 47 p., mimeographed, with textual illustrations. Quarto. Stapled and bound in printed paper wrappers with a cloth tape spine. Some general toning and wear along the extremities. A rather scarce WPA publication, OCLC locates only six copies.

Seller Inventory # 68740

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. A comprehensive review of the oil and gas industry of Oklahoma, and the prospects for the future development of the industry. A large portion of the book is dedicated to descriptions of the producing fields and discussion of the conditions in these fields. The geology of the state is considered with regards to the occurrence of oil and gas in the developed areas and the probable or possible occurrence of these resources elsewhere. Also includes notes on the methods of prospecting for oil and gas, the use of geology as a guide for prospecting, and modes of transportation. Octavo: 196 p. with 37 figures and 4 folding plates. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. The ink signature of geologist R.L. Heaton and the ink stamp of petroleum engineer Horace N. "Hank" Goodell appear on the front flyleaf. The boards are edgeworn, more so at the corners and tips; else about very good.

Seller Inventory # 73963

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Montessus de Ballore was one of the founders of scientific seismology. A pioneer at the same level of Perrey, Mallet, Milne, and Omori, he developed a fascination with earthquakes and volcanoes while taking part in a French military mission to El Salvador (1881-85). Back in France, he began publishing his research on seismology in various academic journals and in 1888 he was awarded a prize by the Paris Academy of Sciences for his original thesis. Following the 1906 Valparaiso Earthquake, which destroyed much of central Chile, Montessus de Ballore was hired by the Chilean government to direct the new Seismological Service. During his tenure (1907-23), he carried out an impressive project on the collection and interpretation of worldwide earthquake data. Many of his ideas laid the groundwork for later discoveries. This book, which discusses the physical principles obtained through a synthesis of the enormous quantity of data he had gathered, is no exception, and includes a preface by the eminent Viennese scientist Edouard Suess. Tall octavo: vii, 579 p. with a frontispiece, 221 figures (some folding), and 63 tables. In a three-quarter black morocco over marbled paper binding, with decorative gilt stamping, five raised bands, marbled endpapers, and a ribbon marker. Short tear to the fore-edge of the title page, with two ink ownership stamps to a prefatory blank leaf. Some general shelfwear to the boards, including a bit of mild bumping to the corners; otherwise very good.

Seller Inventory # 76642

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Historians of the early debate on the Wegenerian continental drift hypothesis all point to the 1926 symposium of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and this publication, which purports to be papers given at the meeting in New York, as instrumental in turning American geologists against Alfred Wegener (1880-1930). His hypothesis remained controversial and was widely rejected by mainstream geology until the 1950s, when numerous discoveries such as palaeomagnetism provided strong support for continental drift, and thereby a substantial basis for today's model of plate tectonics. Octavo: x, 240 p. with 29 figures. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. The period ink ownership inscription of petroleum geologist Thomas Cleon Hiestand (1901-79) appears on the front flyleaf. Faint stain to the spine; otherwise very good.

Seller Inventory # 76644

Hardcover. This photostat copy of Baron E�tv�s' landmark report on the use of torsion balances for geophysical purposes belonged to the prominent oil company executive, petroleum exploration geophysicist, and philanthropist Everette Lee DeGolyer (1886-56), with his ink stamp to the front flyleaf. It was at the Fifteenth General Conference of International Earth Measurement, held on September 20-28, 1906 in Budapest, where much of the scientific community learned on E�tv�s' research on torsion balances. Within a few years, several European scientists were using instruments of this sort for geodetic work (the study of measuring and representing the Earth), and Hugo de Boeck, director of the Hungarian Geological Survey, was urging that they be used for geological work as well. An E�tv�s torsion balance was used in the first gravimetric survey for petroleum prospecting in 1915-16 at Egbell field in Slovakia. DeGolyer tried to obtain an E�tv�s torsion balance at that time but the First World War stymied his efforts. Later, he made the first torsion balance survey in the United States at the highly productive Spindletop oilfield, near Beaumont in South Texas. An oilfield found by DeGolyer on behalf of Rycade in Southeast Texas's Nash Dome was considered the first anywhere to be discovered using geophysics. The strike, on the flank of a salt dome in Texas's Southern Fort Bend, occurred on January 3, 1926, using the torsion balance method which utilized gravity to identify and map layers of underground rock strata, while roughly approximating their size, depth, and density. Accompanied by a typed copy of Dr. Wilhelm Schweydar's report on the E�tv�s torsion balance (5 p., in German); with Carl Bamberg, Schweydar developed a photographic torsion balance; a typed bibliography of related reports published between 1855 and 1916 (8 p., largely in English); and four photostat diagrams of torsion balance surveys conducted in Texas, with DeGolyer's ink stamp on the verso of one. Text in German. Tall octavo: p.337-395 with a double-page table and what appears to be a supplied title page. Full black cloth binding, with gilt titles on the front panel, a small typed label affixed to the spine, and cream endpapers. The top corner of the first two leaves are clipped, perhaps to remove evidence of the Amerada Petroleum Corporation stamp which is reproduced in the margin of two later leaves (presumably this photostat was made from the copy in the Amerada library around 1916). The spine is lightly faded and leaning just a touch, with a bit of mild wear to the corners and tips.

Seller Inventory # 76656