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Ministerio
de Minas y Petroleos : Instituto Geological Nacional
:
Boletin
geologico
11x8.5" through Vol. 12, 9.5x6.5"
after that, illustrated. Plates in addition to numbered
pages.
Each contains a number of articles (titles may be abbreviated).
Some articles duplicated in English.
Many have English abstract.
Most have cover slightly larger than page block - it
is bumped where it overhangs.
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Colombia Bulletin Vol.
2(1) : 1954 : 110p. nice plates & fold-outs.
(bumped corners, spine ends rough) $7
Cretaceo inferior en los alrededores de Villa de Leiva.
Cretaceo superior en la region de Girardot.
Desarrollo de la flora Colombiana en los periodos geologicos.
Fotogeologia y su aplicacion a la exploracion petrolera.
Colombia Bulletin Vol.
2(2) : 1954 : 21p. plates. (bent along spine, bumped
edges, back cover rough) $1
Principios para la nomenclatura palinologica sistematica.
Colombia Bulletin Vol.
4(2-3) : 1956 : 117p. plates. (bumped corner) $5
Variabilidad de la amonita Dufrenoya texana.
Nomenclatura palinologica sistematica.
Palynological systematic nomenclature (same as above,
but in English).
Descripcion de algunos generos y especies de pollen
y esporas fosiles.
Description of some genera and species of fossil pollen
and spores (same as above).
Colombia Bulletin Vol.
5(1) : 1957 : 126p. (noticeably bumped corner)
$5
Resultados practices de los trabajos de la seccion de
hidrogeologia del Instituto Geologico Nacional en tres
anos de labores.
Bibliografia de los estudios referents a agues subterraneas
que pueden ser consultados en el IGN.
Quimica de las aquas subterraneas y su importancia desde
el punto de vista de potabilidad e hygiene.
Ensayo de bombeo en las captaciones de agua subterranean.
Aprovechamiento del deposito de agua subterranean dulce
en la Isla de San Andres.
Calidad del agua en el acueducto de "El Centro",
Barrancabermeja, Santander.
Calidad del agua en el acueducto de San Antonio de California,
Santander.
Colombia Bulletin Vol.
5(2) : 1957 : 207p. plates, multiple fold-outs.
$12
Periodicidad climatica y evolutcion de floras suramericanas
del Maestrichtiano y del Terciario.
Climatic periodicity and evolution of South American
Maestrichtian and Tertiary floras.
Estratigrafia de la Sabana de Bogota y alrededores.
Briostratigrafia de la Sabana de Bogota y sus alrededores.
Estratigrafia palinologia de la Sabana de Bogota.
Colombia Bulletin Vol.
5(3) : 1957 : 98p., fold-out. $7
Problemas de la geologia economica de Colombia.
Bosquejo geografico y geologico de la Sierra Nevada
de Santa Marta y la Serrania de Perija.
Formacion cuprifera de la Serrania de Perija, La Guajira
and Magdalena.
Yacimientos carboniferous de L Jagua de Ibirico, Magdalena.
Yacimientos calcareous de El Cerrejon, La Guajira.
Colombia Bulletin Vol.
8(1-3) : 1960 : 231p. plates, fold-outs. $10
Basamento cristalino de la peninsula de la Guajira.
Conglomerados, transgresiones, regresiones, hiatus y
facies en relacion con solevantamientos tectonicos.
Contribucion a la palinologia del terciario del norte
del Colombia.
Late paleozoic and early Mesozoic plant fossils from
the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia and correlation
of the Giron formation.
Reconocimiento geologico de la region Boavita - La Uvita,
Boyaca.
Estudio experimental de abrasion en guijarros.
Colombia Bulletin Vol.
9(1-3) : 1961 : 171p. multiple large fold-outs.
$9
Epocas magmaticas y metalogeneticas en los Andes Colombianos.
Geologia del noreste de Bogota.
Informe preliminary sobre irrigacion con agua subterranea,
Codazzi, Magdlena.
Observaciones geologicas y estudio petrografico sobre
54 muestras colectadas por el doctor Laureano Rincon,
Narino en la via Tambo, Penol, Policarpa.
Calizas de la region de Cartagena.
Levantamiento geologico de la carretera Riohacha - Puente
Bomba - Rio Ancho.
Informe geologico del paramo al este de Bogota.
Algunas calizas del Departamento del Tolima para la
obtencion de cal agricola.
Colombia Bulletin Vol.
10(1-3) : 1962 : 235p. multiple fold-outs. $12
Investigacion de la vision estereoscopica.
Apuntes acerca de la litologia y tectonica de la zona
al este y sureste de Bogota.
Contribucion al conocimiento de la Cordillera Occidental,
seccion carretera Cali-Buenaventura.
Estudios sobre los depositos de azufre en la mina de
"El Vinagre", Purace. (sulfur).
Contribucion al conocimiento de la Cordillera central
de Colombia, seccion entre Ibague y Armenia.
Estudio sobre la erosion en el Cerro de la Popa, Cartagena.
Informe de la mina "El Socorro", Mercurio,
Municipio de Aguadas, Caldas.
Colombia Bulletin Vol.
11(1-3) : 1963 : 294p. multiple plates and fold-outs.
(bumped corners) $15
Asociacion esporo - polinica hallada en una serie perteneciente
a la formacion La Cira del Valle del Magdalena.
Compilacion de los estudios sobre arcillas en la Sabana
de Bogota (100p.)
Observaciones sobre las calizas de Toluviejo.
Geologia y mineralizaciones cupriferas de la Serrania
de Perija, entre Becerril y Villanueva, Magdalena, Guajira.
Historia de clima y vagetacion del Pleistoceno superior
y del Holoceno de la Sabana de Bogota.
Estudio de las reserves yesiferas de la region de los
Santos - Batan - Villanueva.
Colombia Bulletin Vol.
12(1-3) : 1964 : 75p., plates, fold-outs. $6
Jura-Triasico de Colombia.
Flora del pollen del Paleoceno de Colombia.
Geologia y posibilidades economicas de depositos calcareous
al oeste de San Martin (Meta), entre los rios Cumaral
y La Cal.
Contenido de los volumenes anteriores.
Colombia Bulletin Vol.
13(1-3) : 1965 : 99p. many fold-outs (noticeably
bumped corner, upper spine end rough) $6
El Cretacico carbonifero al norte de la Sabana de Bogota.
Las cuencas carboniferas de Boyaca y Cundinamaraca (Guaduas
- Tocaima)
Colombia Bulletin Vol.
14(1-3) : 1966 : 132p. fold-outs (corners noticeably
bumped, upper spine end bumped and rough) $4
Estudio de las Arcillas industrials de la zona central
de Antioquia. Clays.
Informe sobre los ensayos de Arcillas hechos en el laboratorio
de la facultad de minas.
Colombia Bulletin
Vol. 15(1-3) : 1967 : 181p. fold-outs. (lower
spine end rough) $8
Las capas fosfaticas de la Cordillera Oriental. Phosphates.
Nuevas tecnicas en la prospeccion para yacimientos
de fosfatos.
Roca fosfatica en Colombia.
Conceptos prliminares sobre el desarrollo y uso de
fertilizantes en Colombia.
Colombia Bulletin
Vol. 16(1-3) : 1968 : 217p. fold-outs. $10
Grupo Giron, una Molasa Mesozoica de la Cordillera
Oriental.
Caverna del Nus, Antioquia. Cave w/ 9 rooms, 220m
x 50m, in marble, w/formations.
Colombia en la mineria Latinoamericana.
Codigo de Nomenclatura estratigrafica.
Colombia Bulletin
Vol. 17(1-3) : 1969 : 173p., fold-outs. (cover
rubbed, bumped corner) $6
Guias para identificar rocas igneas y metamorficas
a partir de fotografias aereas en la mitad norte de
la Cordillera central.
Petrografia del Stock de Payande y metamorfitas asociadas.
Actividad ignea y tectonica en la Cordillera Central
durante el Meso-Cenozoico.
Colombia Bulletin
Vol. 19(2) : 1971 : 89p., fold-outs, large full-color
map in pocket. $14
Evolucion estructural de los Andes mas septentrionales
de Colombia.
Colombia Bulletin
Vol. 19(3) : 1971 : 129p., plates, fold-outs
inc. 2 full-color maps. $10
Ciclos tectonicos y sedimentarios en el Norte de Colombia
y sus relaciones con la Paleoecologia.
Relaciones entre la bioestratigrafia y la cronoestratigrafia
en el llamado geosinclinal de Bolivar.
La Exogyra squamato en el Cretaceo medio de la Cordillera
Oriental de Colombia.
Colombia Bulletin
Vol. 20(1) : 1972 : 85p. fold-out. $8
Geologia de parte de los departamentos de Antioquia
y Caldas (sub-zona 2A)
Colombia Bulletin
Vol. 20(2) : 1972 : 173p. (block slightly rippled)
$12
Geologia de parte de los departamentos de Antioquia
y Caldas (sub-zona 2B)
Colombia Bulletin
Vol. 21(1-3) : 1973 : 132p. plates in pocket.
(bumped corners and edge) $12
Geologia de los cuadrangulos H-12 Bucaramanga y H-13
Pamplona, departamento de Santander.
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Columbia : Misc. publications (geology, anthropology, natural history) 9.5x6.5", illustrated.
Antioqueño colonization in western Colombia. By James J. Parsons. 1968 University of California Press, Berkeley, revised edition. HARDBACK, tan cloth, 9x6”, 233p., 14 maps (one is frontispiece, one is folded in pocket, rest are in-text), 7 pages of photographic plates. In English. (Very Good, owner's name on fly leaf) ac $28
Boletin de Petroleos : # 109-120 from 1938. Printed in 1940. Ministerio de industrias y trabajo, Republica de Colombia. 186p. plus fold-outs. Includes some legislative material plus the following studies and reports : Asociacion de tipos de rocas igneas con yacimientos minerales. Acidos humicos y otros acidos organicos como solventes para minerales. Informe sobre el reconocimiento del yacimiento de hierro de "Pericos", cuasca, Cundinamarca. Informe sobre la fuente de "mal paso" cerca de mosquera (Cundinamarca). Inofrme definitivo sobre los deslizamientos de Mongua (Boyaca). (back edges bumped, corners lightly bumped). $3
Boletin de Petroleos : # 121-140 from 1939-40. Printed in 1941. Ministerio de industrias y trabajo, Republica de Colombia. 214p. plus fold-outs including some nice maps (2 in color) and photographs. Contains the following articles : Yacimiento de zinc de playas, Municipio de Junin (Cundinamarca). Yacimientos de asbesto de Norizal (Antioquia). Yacimiento de marmol de Nare (Antioquia). Yacimiento de hierro de "Morro Pelon", Municipio de Campamento (Antioquia). Cuenca carbonifera del Cerrejon, Magdalena. Geologia del sur de la Cordillera Oriental, entre los Llanos y el Magdalena. Informe sobre las primeras materias para la industria ceramica existentas en el oriente y centro de Antioquia. Informe sobre un dique de pegmatita existente en la quebrada "Ciempesos", Envigado, Antioquia. Crustaceos y seudopteropodos del Cretacico de Colombia. (cover lightly soiled, both spine ends a bit rough. One noticeably bumped corner, one cover tip bent.). $7
Caldasia 9(41). Boletin del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales de La Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota. 1964. 10x7”, 91p., very nicely illustrated with detailed drawings, including some color. The bulk of this issue consists of a single article “Plantas Insectivoras I – Lentibulariaceas de Colombia y Peru. 80p. by Alvaro Fernandez Perez. Insectivoras Plants. (cover edges sunned and bumped where they overhang the page block. Corners bumped.) ac $21
Cambrian and Ordovician faunas of eastern Colombia. by Horacio J. Harrington and Marshall Kay. 1951 Journal of Paleontology vol. 25(5). 9x6", pages 655-668, illus. $3
Catalogo bibliografico : 1980-1990 una decada de produccion antropologica en Colombia. 1990 Instituto Colombiano de Culturea, Instituto Colombiano de Antropolgia, Bogota. This works compiles nearly all of the Colombian anthropologist’s work and some investigations made by foreign scholars during the decade. Softcover, 11x8.5”, 353p. SCARCE. ac $35
Contribucion al conocimiento de la Geologia de la Zona Central de Antioquia. by Gerardo Botero Arango. 1963 Medellin. Anales de la Facultad de Minas # 57. 9.5x6.5”, 101p., illustrated, including fold-out maps. (lightly bumped corners, minor spot on lower edge of page block). ac $18
Darien in the past : the archaeology of Eastern Panama and northwestern Colombia. By S. Linne. 1929 Goteborg, Sweden. Goteborgs Kungl. Vetenskas- och Vitterhets-Samhalles Handlingar, femte foljden. Ser. A. Band 1 No. 3. Softcover, 9.5x6.5”, 318p., nicely illustrated. In English. Contents include : Atlantic coast of the Isthmus of Panama, The Pearl Islands, The Pacific coast, Funeral customs in Darien, Microscopic investigations of certain ceramics from the Pearl Islands and the Gulf of Uraba. SCARCE. (Good. Cover has minor soil, owner’s name. Pages tanned. A few small tick marks. Paper over lower spine end chipped. One page margin rough from when originally cut apart.). ac $68
Historical geography of the Santa Marta area, Colombia. By James R. Krogzemis. 1967 University of California. Softcover, 11x8.5”, 175 one-sided pages, plus plates pages. In English. Contents include Prehistory and Spanish conquest, Lowlands and coast surrounding the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, The Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, The Highlands of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and The Indians of the Sierra Nevada. SCARCE. (Good. Inside is all VG. Cover has owner's name and stamps, cloth tape over spine has a tear at spine end.) ac $46
Informes Antropologicos # 4. 1990 Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia, Bogota. 11x8”, 140p., illus. Major articles include : Investigaciones arqueologicas en Nuevo Rio Claro (Caldas). Pobladores prehispanicos en el Cauca, Colombia. Los Macuna en la historia cultural del Amazonas. Bibliografia de la Cultura Agustiniana. ac $18
Jimenez de Quesada. By German Arciniegas. 1939, ABC, Bogota. HARDBACK, full leather binding, 7x5”, 347p. In Spanish. A neat history of his life. (Good. Former owner’s signature on title page. Binding nice and tight. Pages clean, but tanned. Foxing, very noticeably on end papers, mild or absent inside. Edge of page block speckled. Has a single tiny book worm hole that goes all the way through.). ac $34
Plantas utiles de Colombia : Tomo I – generalidades, criptogamas, gimnospermas y monocotiledoneas. by Enrique Perez Arbelaez. 1936 Imprenta Nacional, Bogota. 9.5x6.5”, 172p., very nicely illustrated with detailed drawings, lots of information. (corners bumped, pages nearest cover lightly foxed) ac $17
Primer congreso Colombiano de Geologia : Memoria. 1969. 438p., nicely illustrated, many fold-outs. Separate large geological map of Macizo de Floresta 1 : 50,000. This nice book contains 23 articles (6 in English) presented at the 1st Columbian Geology Congress. Some articles in Spanish have an English abstract. Some of the localities or subjects mentioned : Forest photogeology, Formacion Morrocoyal, Paleomamalogia, Isla de San Andres, Santa Marta area, Guajira Peninsula, Paz Vieja, Boyaca, La Azufrada, Ferromanganeso, Bucaramanga. (cover rubbed, edges bumped) $26
Republica de Colombia, Departamento del Meta : Conservacion de los recursos naturales renovables. 1973 O.E.A., Washington. D.C. 10.5x8”, 95p. plus multiple fold-out maps. Contains information and data on Climate, Hydrography, Vegetation, Fields, Forests, and much more. (noticeably bumped corners) ac $21
Revista Colombiana de antropologia Vol. 27. 1990 Bogota. 9.5x6.5”, 302p., illus. Contains multiple articles, topics include : El trabajo de la tagua en Chiquinquira. Dos sacrificios humanos entre los Muiscas. Etnogeografia y etnogeologia de Coconuco y Sotara. Los Yukuna de la Amazonia. Estatuaria litica en el norte de Narino. ac $24
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Ecuador : Misc. publications (geology, history and more)
Actas del cabildo de guayaquil 1634-1639..1970, Corporacion de Estuidios y Publicaciones, Seccion de Investigaciones Historico Juridicas, Guayaquil. Anuario Historico Juridico Ecuatoriano. Softcover, dust jacket, 557p. In Spanish. SCARCE. (Good. Generally VG, dust jacket has some wear especially at spine ends. Owner’s name on dust jacket and title page. Edge of page block lightly speckled.). ac $35
Bibliografia cientifica del Ecuador : antropologia – Etnografia – Arqueologia – Prehistoria – Linguistica. by Carlos Manuel Larrea. 1968 Corporacion de estudios y publicaciones, Quito. 8.5x6”, 289p. (cover and edge of page block darkened) ac $25
Geology of Isabela (Albemarle) island, Archipielago de Colon (Galapagos). By A.F. Banfield, C.H. Behre, Jr., and D. St. Clair. 1956, Extracted from Bulletin GSA, vol. 67, pages 215-234, nicely illus. (spine a bit rough) $5
Highways into the Upper Amazon Basin : Pioneer lands in Southern Colombia, Ecuador, and Northern Peru. by Edmund Eduard Hegen. Latin American Monographs, second series, # 2. 1966 University of Florida Press, FOR Center for Latin American Studies. 9x6”, 168p., some illustrations, in ENGLISH. Signed by author. (spine darkened). ac $7
Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898-1899. These are extracted from the Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 1901, Volume 3. (Pages are VG, but are a bit rough along spine. Individual sheets may be loose from spine). $29
Included Papers :
1. Introduction. Pages 363-370.
2. Entomological results (2) : Diptera. Pages 371-379.
3. Entomological results (3) : Odonata. Pages 381-389, 5 figures.
4. Entomological results (4) : Orthoptera. Pages 487-506, 10 figures.
5. Entomological results (5) : Thysanura and Termitidae. Pages 541-546, 11 figures.
Plan de desarrollo Region I : Esmeraldas – Carchi – Imbabura, Republica del Ecuador, Inerhi Conade. ~1985 O.E.A., Washington D.C. 11.5x8.5”, 361p., multiple fold-out maps plus a number of folded maps at back. This large development plan includes lots of detailed information packed in with fine type. (cover rubbed, back cover lightly soiled) ac $35
Report upon rocks collected from the Galapagos Islands by George P. Merrill. 1893 Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, vol. 16(13). 9x6", 3 pages, UNCUT. (back cover edge chipped, front cover edge bumped). $1
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