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ASUB Annales Scientifiques de l'Universite de Besancon : Geologie
MT Archives du Musee Teyler : Excellent paleontological papers from 1860-70s
BRGM Bulletin du Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres
GA Bulletin du Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres : Geologie Appliquee

BEA

Bulletin elf aquitaine

GAE Geologie Alpine : Colloques et Excursions
GAM Geologie Alpine : Memoires
INQUA INQUA 8th International INQUA Congress : Field trip guides
MSN Memoires de la Sociéte Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathématiques de Cherbourg
TLP Travaux du Laboratoire de Paleontologie
Misc. France : Misc. geology publications

 

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Annales Scientifiques de l'Universite de Besancon : Geologie
10x6" unless notes, illustrated. In French. Very good. Spines sunned, owner's stamp.

Available issues: Paper titles may be shortened. Uncut = never used.

2 : 1950 First series? 16p. Uncut. $3
La vallee du Doubs et l'evolution morphotectonique de la region bisontine.
10 : 1959 11p. (title page has a stain - doesn't obscure anything) 2nd serie. $2
Sur les accidents et l'evolution tectonique de la region de Rondefontaine (Doubs)
12 : 1960 112p. Uncut. 4 papers. 2nd serie $7
Etude geologique des confins de la Haute-Saone et du Doubs entre Melecey-Fallon et Hericourt (Jura franc-comtois)
Contribution a la stratigraphie du Lias dans le Jura franc-comtois.
Sur quelques problemes de geomorphologie dynamique.
Existence d'une phase de surcreusement dans la plaine alluviale de la Saone a l'amont de Gray.
17 : 1963 196p. Uncut. 13 papers. 2nd serie (Noticeably bumped corners) $18
Le grand canal du Rhone au Rhine - etude geologique des principaux ouvrages entre Bourogne (Territoire de Belfort) et Sant-Symphorien-sur-Sane (Cote-d'Or).
Etude geologique de la region de Syam (Jura)
Etude geologique de la region l'Hopital du rosbois-Saint Juan (Doubs).
Contr. a l'etude geologique de la region de Baume-les-Dames (Doubs).
Contr. a l'etude geologique de la region de Nantua (Ain)
Inventaire des restes d'Elephants fossiles trouves en Franche-Comte.
Etude d'ossements humains trouves a Montjustin (H-S)
Le Crane de Rhinoceros a narines cloisonnees des grottes de Rigney (Doubs).
Geologie des environs de Luxeuil-les-Bains (H-S).
Les roches eruptives de la haute vallee de l"Ognon entre Meliisey et Ternuay.
Etude micrographique du "Calcaire de la Citadelle" Bathonien - Besancon.
Presence de Lothearingien marneux au pont de Baume-les-Dames.
Exemple d'application magistrale des methodes de paleontologie stratigraphique : genre Bouleiceras.
Premieres observations sur le seisme de Skopje.
1 : 1965 10.5x8", 75p., 3rd series. 7 papers. (Paper over spine rough) $15
Contribution a la connaissance du feldspath alcalin du "Granite des ballons" dans les Vosges meridionales.
Deux forages executes a Saint-Loup-sur-Semouse (Haute-Saone).
L'outillage paleolithique et mesolithique du bassin superieur de la Saone. Stone tools, flint knapping.
Les deformations miocenes du Jura ont-elles ete precedees de glissements?
Resume des theses de doctorat de troisieme cycle soutenues a Besancon en 1964-5.
Les rejets successifs de la faille de Grandvillars (T de B).
Deux dents de proboscidiens fossiles trouvees dans la sabliere de Marnay (H-S).

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Archives du Musee Teyler : Harlem - Les Heritiers Loosjes.
Softcover, 11x7.5", wonderfully illustrated. Mostly UNCUT = never opened. In French unless otherwise noted.
Very good condition for age. Clean, flat. Spines sunned and paper over spine may be rough.

First Series: (plates of fossils are beautifully hand-drawn in this series)
Archives du Musee Teyler : First Series : Volume 2 (Part 4) : 1869 : 69p. plus plates, 3 papers. Uncut. (bumped corners, spine weakening, spine covering rough). $74

1. Sur les insectes fossiles du calcaire lithographique de la Baviere, qui se tourvent au musee Teyler. (Fossil insects). 4 fold-out plates. (plates are a bit darkened, varigated with age).
2. D'un Crinoide et d'un Poisson du systeme heersien by T.C. Winkler. 1 very nice plate in very good condition.
3. Sur la dispersion by V.S.M. van der Willigen. 3 large folded tables tipped in.

Archives du Musee Teyler : First Series : Volume 5 (Part 1) : 1878 : 2 papers. 72p. plus plates. Uncut.(cover darkened and faintly soiled, corners bumped, spine covering rough, binding beginning to fail) $91

1. Description d'une espece nouvelle de Pachycormus by T.C. Winkler. 10p. Wonderful 4-width fold-out tinted plate of Pachycormus westermani. (a Fish) (margins of plate have a few faint speckles)
2. Considerations geologiques su l'origine du zand-diluvium, du sable campinien et des dunes maritimes de Pays-Bas by T.C. Winkler. 62p. Fold-out full color geologic map.

french fish plate

 

Archives du Musee Teyler : First Series : Volume 5 (Part 2) : 1880 : 3 papers. 75p. plus 7 great fold-out plates. Uncut. (cover darkened and faintly soiled with sunned pattern, spine covering rough, one bumped corner, separated along spine - heavy back section with plates has pulled away. Inside of back cover and outsides of plates are mildly foxed - plate faces and text untouched). Fish fossils. $128

1. Note sur quelques dents de poissons fossiles de l'oligocene inferieur et moyen du Limbourg by T.C. Winkler. 12p.
2. Memoire sur les poissons fossiles des lignites de Sieblos by T.C. Winkler. 24p.
3. Description de quelques restes de poissons fossiles des terrains triasiques des environs de Wurzbourg by T.C. Winkler. 40p.

Second Series:
Archives du Musee Teyler : Second Series : Volume 4 (Part 2) : 1898 : 60p. plus plates. Uncut. (bumped corners, spine ends rough, 4 page margins are darkened, cover edge has light soil) $69

This entire work pertains to Les insectes des temps secondaires : revue critique des fossiles du Musee paleontologique de Munich by Fernand Meunier. Includes 30 full-page excellent photographic plates of actual Fossil Insects, often with several to a page.

Archives du Musee Teyler : Second Series : Volume 4 (Part 4) : 1895 : 142p. plus plates. Uncut. Two lovely full-color fold-out maps (Nord du Vecht and Sud du Vecht) plus one fold-out figure. Uncut. This is about Peat, probably peat deposits. (bumped corners, spine ends rough, one margin has a tear) $65

This entire work pertains to "Contributions a la geologie des Pays-Bas VI : Les hautes Tourbieres au nord du Rhin by Dr. J. Lorie.
1. Tourbieres du Versant occidental du Palteau de Drenthe (Drachten, Roteevalle, Zevenhuizen, Wijnjeterp-Gorredijk, Smilde, Makkinga, Frederiksoord, Koekange.
2. Tourbieres des deux Cotes du Vecht (Hoogeveen-Coevorden, Staphorst, Hardenberg-Almeloo, Radewijk-Wilsum, "Syen-Venne."
3. Tourbieres du Versant oriental du Plateau de Drenthe (Schoonoord, L'Eems et le Vecht (Rheine, Salzbergen, Emsburen, Lingen, Lohne, Schuttorf, Nordhorm, Neuenhaus), Bourtange (Bord oriental et Rive gauche de l'Eems - Meppen, Wesuwe, Altenberge, Rhede) (Bord occidental le long du Hondsrug - Emblicheim, Schoonebeek, Dalen, Hondsrug, Winschoten) (Pays de Westerwolde - Ter-Apel, Sellingen, Vlachtwedde, Onstwedde, Bourtange - Bellingwolde).
4. Les petites hautes Tourbieres de l'Overijsel (Nijverdal, Rijssen, Diepenheim, Gronau, Haaksbergen).
5. Tourbieres du SE de Gueldre et de la Province d'Utrecht (Zwillbroek, Kloosterveen, Witte Veen, Korenberger Veen, Zwarte Veen, Soest).
6. Apercu de la Litterature geologique sur les Hautes Tourbieres.

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Bulletin du Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres
10.5x8", illustrated, often with fold-outs and maps. In French. 1-5 technical papers per issue.
Good condition, unless noted. Owner's stamp, lightly bumped edges, paper over spine and spine ends a bit rough.

Available issues: titles may be shortened.

1963 (1) : 71p. 3 papers. (lower spine end rough) $5
Remarques sur la geomorphologie de l'Air.
Note sur les complexes annulaires de Tchouni-Zarniski et de Goure (Niger)
Cuivre. Marche international et approvisionnement francais, juin 1962.
1963 (4) : 90p. 3 papers. Number of folded plates in pocket, some color). Back cover detached due to heavy plate pocket.$16
Etude geologique du gisement de zinc et plomb de la Miniera de Valauria. (plates go with this one)
Compte rendu des reunions d'etude et d'information du BRGM (1962)
L'agglomeration en boulettes des minerais de fer.
1964 (2) : 110p. 5 papers. Plates in pocket. (noticeably bumped corner, lower spine end rough) $12
Circulations souterraines dans les calcaires de la region de Montpellier.
Remarques sur les theories karstiques.
Concentration, en chlore, des eaux souterraines.
Relations du Quaternaire marin de la Mauritanie avec celui des regions avoisinantes.
Addendum - Le faisceau filonien de Pontgibaud
1965 (1) : 99p. 4 papers. (spine ends rough) $8
Gite plombo-zincifere de Plelauff (Cotes-du-Nord).
Gisements auriferes du Limousin et de la Marche.
Sur l'age de quelques mineralisations de Madagascar.
L'echantillonnage des minerais - la notion d'heterogeneite.
1965 (2) : 111p. 2 papers. (upper spine end rough) $12
Etude geologique et metallogenique du Nivernais septentrional (Chitry-les-Mines, Nievre).
Les gisements auriferes du Limousin et de la Marche (suite).
1965 (5) : 165p. 2 papers. (lower spine end rough) $8
Distribution des traces d'etain, de lithium et de beryllium dans quelques massifs granitiques du Morbihan - Diggerences entre granites stanniferes et granites steriles.
Etude des Foraminiferes du Cretace superieur de la Basse-Seine.
1965 (6) : 115p. Numerous fold-outs incl. large color map. 4 papers. (bumped corners) $10
Mineralisations de la Cezarenque et du Sud-Est du Mont Lozere.
Etude des mineralisations cupriferes du bassin permien de la basse vallee du Dourdou (Aveyron).
Etude geochimique du gisement d'etain et de tungstene de Montbelleux (Ile-et-Vilaine).
Elaboration de logs petrographiques et mineralogiques.
1966 (1-3) All three issues sold together as group : About 500p. $32
Each issue has several articles, but a large feature of each is "Cretaceous of French Jura."
1 : Cretace du Jura francais (These, a suivre)
2 : Cretace du Jura francais (These, suite)
3 : Cretace du Jura francais (suite)

 

Bulletin du Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres : Geologie Appliquee
10.5x8", illustrated, often with fold-outs and maps. In French. 1-5 technical papers per issue. Section II.
Very Good condition. Owner's stamp, lightly bumped corners and spine ends.

Available issues: Paper titles may be shortened.

1968 (2) : 101p. 2 papers. $6
Le beryllium.
Gites metalliferes alpins syntectoniques et metamorphiques dans la zone houillere axiale des Alpes francaises (Brianconnais, Maurienne).
1968 (4) : 92p. 3 papers. $6
Gite d'antimoine de Buzeins (Aveyron) - Exemple de mineralisation epigenetique dans l'Autunien.
Chargement mecanise en foncage de puits de petite section (nice illustrations).
Methodes d'etude du champ microfissural des mineraux et des roches et possibilites d'application en geologie.
1969 (2) : 97p. 4 papers. $5
Les gisements plombozinciferes de l'Iglesiente (Sardaigne)
Mesures de convergence dans des carrieres a faible recouvrement (Saint-Georges, Saintes)
Denoyage du gisement de phosphate des Ganntour dans la region de Youssoufia.
Thermoluminescence des roches quartzofeldspathiques. (1st part)
1969 (3) : 60p. 2 papers. $5
Recherches de controles de mineralisation en cinabre dans le Massif Armoricain.
Thermoluminescence des roches quartzofeldspathiques (2nd part)
1971 (3) : 107p. 2 papers. $5
Essai de typologie quantitative des gisements de plomb et de zinc avec la repartition de l'argent (1st part).
Chronique des Mines - Analyses.

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Bulletin elf aquitaine : Des centres de recherches exploration - production
Very large, book-like journals, nicely illustrated, with color. Some articles in English, all have English summary.
Seems to be Petroleum related : France, Africa, Middle East primarily. Company now named "TotalFina"
Excellent condition : owner's stamp, covers lightly rubbed.

Bulletin Elf Aquitaine Vol. 9 #2 : 1985 : 9.5x6.5", 450p. Includes six articles. $11

Successful example of deep sea exploration with complementary methods - Cap Ferret sedimentary fan (Bay of Biscay, France).
Case history of oil occurrence in Rhine rift valley of Alsace.
Paleopedogenetic and karstic features in Liassic dolomitic and calcareous deposits (Causses of Larzac, Languedoc, France).
Oil field waters from Irak (Iraq)
Sedimentological study of Permian outcrops of Djebel Tebaga of Medenine (southern Tunisia)
Introduction to the study of Paleozoic fossil algae (from bacteria to plate tectonics) 250 pages!

 

Geologie Alpine : Serie speciale "Colloques et Excursions" 11.5x8"
Large books, softcover, Published by "Centre National de la Recherche scientifique, Grenoble. Edite par le laboratoire de geologie de l'universite i de Granoble (Laboratoire de Geodynamique des Chaines Alpines associe au CNRS).
Very good condition : owner's stamp, covers lightly rubbed. Paper over spine is rough.

Geologie Alpine 4 : 1994 : Les Bassins d'avant-chaines. Seance de la Societe Geologique de France, Grenoble, 1994 - Resumes. This is a compilation of abstracts, which are in English or French and are 1 or 2 pages per topic. 111p. Illus. $12

 

Geologie Alpine : Memoires 10.5x8" through #15, 11.5x8" after that. Illustrated.
Large books, softcover, Published by "Centre National de la Recherche scientifique, Grenoble. Edite par le laboratoire de geologie de l'universite i de Granoble (Laboratoire de Geodynamique des Chaines Alpines associe au CNRS).
Very good condition : owner's stamp, covers lightly rubbed.

Geologie Alpine Memoire 13 : 1987 : Le Detritisme dans le Sud-Est de la France. Colloque association des geologues du Sud-Est, Grenoble, 1986. 469p. (lightly bumped edges, rubbed covers, bent corner tip, back cover lightly soiled) $28

Geologie Alpine Memoire 14 : 1988 : Le Detritisme dans le Sud-Est de la France. Colloque association des geologues du Sud-Est, Chambery, 1987. 305p. (back cover lightly soiled, upper spine end rough) $21

Geologie Alpine Memoire 15 : 1990 : Risques Naturels dans le Sud-Est de la France. Colloque association des Geologues du Sud-Est, Avignon, 1989. 251p., some color (cover rubbed). $21

Geologie Alpine Memoire 19 : 1993 : Le Granite du Manaslu (Nepal central) Marqueur de la subduction et de l'extension intracontinentales Himalayennes : etude structurale, metamorphique et geochimique. (Himalayas). By Stephane Guillot. 100p. (back cover tip bent, cover faintly soiled) $27

Geologie Alpine Memoire 21 : 1994 : Deformation recente et actuelle des Alpes occidentales. Mise en evidence, caracterisation et quantification par analyse geomorphologique et comparaison de nivellements. By Xavier Darmendrail. 174p. (back cover tip bent, cover faintly soiled) $25

Geologie Alpine Memoire 22 : 1994 : Mesure de la deformation actuelle des Alpes occidentales et du Jura par comparaison de donnees, geodesiques historiques. By Francois Jouanne. 153p. $24

 

INQUA 8th International INQUA Congress : Field trip guides
Livret - Guide De L'Excursion : Union Internationale pourl'etude du Quaternaire, 8th Congres, Paris, 1969.
Softcover, 8x5.5", nicely illustrated with maps and figures, multiple trips with stop descriptions. In French.
Very good condition, edges lightly sunned, page edges faintly darkened, spine ends may be faintly bumped.

INQUA France : A 2 : Somme, Region Parisienne. 76p., 11 field trips. (cover barely scuffed at lower edge) $8
INQUA France : A 4 : Berry - Poitou, Charentes. 123p. 6 field trips. (cover scuffed along two edges) $12
INQUA France : A 5 : Landes - Perigord. 90p., 10 field trips. Excellent fold-outs. (cover lightly soiled) $10
INQUA France : A 7 : Alpes, Moyenne vallee du Rhone. 62p. 11 field trips, plate in pocket. $8
INQUA France : A 8 : Dauphine. 62p. 11 field trips. $7

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Memoires de la Sociéte Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathématiques de Cherbourg.
1884, 1887, 1933 Cherbourg, Paris. Softcover, 10x6.5", some illustrations. In French. Complete contents listed below. Mostly uncut.
Priced individually below, or buy all three for $100.

Here are three fat volumes of Memoirs of the National Society of Natural Science and Mathematics of Cherbourg. There is a wonderful mix of papers, including one about the legends of Hawaii, the Sandwich Islands and Polynesia. Content includes nice pieces on geology, archaeology, paleontology, biology, botany, bryophytes (bryinées?), whales, anthropology, legends.

CONDITION: Fair / Poor, Reading copies, or make a photocopy for daily use. The plates, which are on sturdier paper, are nice and framable. Text paper is tanned and somewhat brittle, often with chipped edges. Mostly disbound, covers may be missing, outer pages rougher. Edges bumped. Clean.

Vol. 24 (3rd series, volume 4) : 1884 : (Partly disbound, chipped edges, but apparently intact.) $40
Les Organes Végétatifs du Monotropa Hypopitys L. 40p., 3 large fold-out plates.
Sur les Perturbations planétaires et l'intégration des équations différentielles du mouvement des corps célestes. 47p.
Sur l'affinité des substances dissoutes pour l'eau. 8p.
Étude géologique de la tranchée du Chemin de Fer entre Sottevast et Martinvast (Manche). Fold-out map. 23p.
A propos du Peuplement de la Polynésie. (Settlement of Polynesia) 72p.
Catalogue des plantes recueillies aux anvirons de Tehé-fou, Chine. 84p.
Notes sur l'électricite atomosphérique au Cap Horn. 27p.
Note sur Quelques Cétacés capturés ou échoués sur les cotes de l'Europe de 1879-1885. (Whale hunting) 7p.
Fleurs anormales 4p., 2 plates.
Révision critique des Bryinées Pleurocarpes.

Vol. 25 (3rd Series, volume 5) : 1887. (Partly disbound, chipped edges, but apparently intact.) $52
Bryo-Géographie des Pyrénées. 194p.
Tableua synoptique des Nostochacées filamenteuses Hétérocystées. 25p.
Essai sur la Station Préhistorique de Bretteville. 30p. 25 plates at back of volume, most of flint points and spears.
Sur quelques points de la Géologie des Environs de Cherbourg. 25p.
Les Legends des iles Hawaii (iles Sandwich) et le peuplement de la Polynésie. by M. Henri Jouan 51p.

Vol. 41 (5th series, volume 1) : 1929-1933 (Partly disbound, but apparently intact. Covers chipped, but insides NOT brittle) $32
Cyanophycées des Cotes d'Europe. (HUGE piece, 234p., 66 thick, clean plates) Possibly algae.
Effets du Froid pendant les hivers 1927-1928 et 1928-1929 sur certains végétaux introduits dans la région de Cherbourg. 15p.
Diptéres dolichopodides exotiques. 67p., 23 plates.

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Travaux du Laboratoire de Paleontologie : University de Paris, Faculte des Sciences d'Orsay.
Softcover, 10.5x8", illustrated. In French. Very good condition, owner's stamp.

Available papers:
Analyse de la notion de "Fossile vivant" - Flora et Faune d'Australie by Serge Cassagne. (Living fossils - flora and fauna of Australia). 1967. 84p. $7

Brachiopodes de la Collection MANSUY - etude de quelques especes devoniennes by J.-P. Keller. 1966. 70p. $9

Etudes de Brachiopodes du Paleozoique by A. Denis, Mme Gaspard, M. Laurain, J.-F. Raynaud. 1968. About 70p., 4 separate papers. Please note : two pages were stuck together at edges ... they are supposed to be stuck together as they represent a misprint. $7

Faluns miocenes de Courcelles-Channay (Indre-et-Loire) un type particulier de sedimentation by Madame Noelle Marcoux. 1968. 40p. (bumped corner). $4

Organismes perforants by J. Roger et E. Fatton. 1968. 40p. (Plus a short piece Programme d'etude paleoecologiques by J. Roger 10p. $5

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France : Misc. geology and paleontology publications
Unless otherwise noted, each is about 10.5x8", softcover, and illustrated. Written in French, unless noted.
Unless otherwise noted, each is in good condition with owner's stamp. May have lightly bumped edges or corners.

Altered rocks near Bastogne (Ardennes). By C.A. Raisin. 1901 Quart Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. 57, pages 55-72, illus. 9x6". In English. $2

Cytherissa : The Drosophila of Paleolimnology. edited by Danielopol and others. 21 papers on this ostracod. In English. 1990 : #'s 47-48 of bulletin de l'institut de geologie du bassin d'aquitaine. 310p. This is a large book! $43

Eaux Souterraines aux époques anciennes : role qui leur revient dans l'origine et les modifications de la substance de l'écorce terrestra. By A. Daubrée. 1887 Paris, Libraire des Corps des Ponts et Chaussées, des Mines et des Télégraphes. HARDBACK, library bound, 10x6", 445p., nicely illustrated. (Content VG. Cover rubbed, library plate on end paper, hinges shaken. Original title page present, but detached and with a repaired section) $85

Etudes Francaises sur le Quaternaire : presentees a l'occasion du 8th Congres International de l'INQUA (8th International INQUA congress). 1969 Paris. 274p. Fold-out maps. (bumped corner) $24

Geologie des Marges Continentales (Geology of Continental Margins). 1981. Colloque C3 : Oceanologica Acta : Revue Europeenne d'Oceanologie, supplement au volume 4 (1981). About 40 technical papers. In English. 294p. (owner's name, bumped corner) $32

Géologie sous-marine de la Baie de Villefranche. by Jacques Bourcart. 1957 Annales de l’Institut Océanographique Tome 33 – Fasc 3. Softcover, 11x9”, Pages 137-200 plus two plates. In French. (bumped corner, owner's name) $9

Goniasteridae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) Jurassiques et Cretaces de France : taphonomie, systematique, biostratigraphie, paleobiogeographie, evolution. by Gerard Breton. 1992 : Editions du Museum du Havre. These de Doctorat d'Etat Sciences. 590p., wonderful illustrations. This is a HUGE book. (cover lightly rubbed, lower spine end bumped) $45

INDEX des periodiques Francais des sciences de la terre. 1993 and 1994. These are bibliographies indexing 10 different major journals. Both volumes as one. Published by Comte National Francais de Geologie. 166p. total. (one has a bumped corner) $3

Jointing in the Permian dome de Barrot, Southern France. By R.D. Schuiling. 1956 Geologie en Mijnbouw, pages 227-234, illus. In English. (bumped edges) $1

Leptobos (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) du V illafranchien d'Europe occidentale : systematique, evolution, biostratigraphie, paleoecologie. by M.-P. Duvernois. 1990 : Documents Lyon # 113. 213p., excellent plates. This is a large mammal, loosely similar to the cow or bison. A substantial publication. $23

Manufacture of Cobalt, Report of Consul Chas P. Williams of Rouen. 1891 Report of the U.S. Consulate. 9x6", illus. 5 pages of text, fold-out figures, including great "Plan of an establishment for treating the cobalt and nickel ores of New Caledonia by the process employed at M.M. Maletras and Company, Rouen, France." In English. The Extract is inside a larger paper folder which has bumped edges and is tanned. $5

Massif cristallin ligure. By Pierre Termier and Jean Boussac. 1912 Extrait du bulletin de la Societe geologique de France. Vol. 12, page 272-311, illus., lovely fold-out color geologic map of the region from Savonne to the north. (Uncut. Paper tanned) $10

Nouveaux ostracodes de l'Eocene et de l'Oligocene de l'Aquitaine meridionale by B. Deltel. Extrait des Actes de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux, vol. 100 : 1962-3. 9.5x6", 95p. (cover edges darkened). $8

Potash rich rocks of the Esterel, France. By Ruth D. Terzaghi. 1948 American Mineralogist, vol. 33, pages 18-30, illus. In English. $2

Recherches sur les sédiments marins actuels de la région d'Antibes. AND Propositions données par la Faculté. 1958. Theses présentées a la faculte des sciences d l'universite de Paris pour obtenir le grade de Docteur es Sciences Naturelles par Wladimir D. Nesteroff. This is an unpublished thesis. 11x8", 347p., illus, plus folded map. (Good. Paper tanned, few pages have a chipped corner). $85

Reconnaissance geologique du Fezzan oriental by M. Jacque. 1962. Notes et Memoires de Compagnie Francaise des Petroles. 12.5x9.5", 42p. plus wonderful large full-color geologic map 1 : 500,000. This is a region of SW Libya. (Map like new, text has rubbed and lightly soiled cover and noticeably bumped corners and edges - nothing horrible). $12

Relations des Mers Dévoniennes de Bretagne et des Ardennes. by Charles Barrois. 1898 Annales de la Societe geologique du Nord, vol. 27, pages 231-259. 9x6"(has been folded, numerous owner's marks on cover). $8

Repartition geographique des mineraux argileux dans les sediments mesozoiques du bassin Subalpin : mise en evidence d'une diagenese complexe by J. Levert. 1991 : Documents Lyon # 114. 175p. A substantial publication. (spine a bit rough) $13

Société Geologique du Nord - Annales 25 : 1896 Lille, France. HARDBACK, green cloth spine and green marbled paper over boards, 9x5.5, illus. This entire issue is devoted to this article "Constant Prévost : Coup d'oeil rétrospectif sur la Géologie en France, pendant la premiére moitié du XIX siécle." By J. Gosselet. 346p., illus. (Good. Content VG, with 2 pages foxed near one plate. Library plate on end paper, original cover page (before Hard binding) is darkly tanned. Library stamp on edge of page block. Cover rubbed, lightly soiled, with abraded corner tips and small library sticker on spine) $92

Société Geologique du Nord - Annales 46 : 1921 Lille, France. 9x5.5, illus. 218p., illus, including 2 fold-out maps and 2 plates of bivalve fossils. I cannot find a table of contents : It appears to be composed of a number of articles by different authors, including Barrois, Bertrand, Briquet, Delepine, Dolle, Dubar, Dubois, Dutertre, Gosselet, and Pruvost. (Uncut, lower spine end slightly rough, edges of page block bumped). $45

Société Geologique du Nord - Annales 54(1): 1929. 9x5.5, illus. 80p., plus 2 excellent plates of fossils. Contains 9 articles, including Nouveaux gisements de plantes Landeniennes; Flore Landénienne d'Arras, Protorthoptére du Permien de Kama, La faune des couches a Sp. cultrijqgatus de Fourmies and more. (Uncut) $32

Société Geologique du Nord - Annales 54(2) : 1929. 9x5.5, illus. pages 81-144, plus 5 excellent plates of fossils. Contains 11 articles, including Lepidophloios de Langeac; La pierre de Stonne entre la Meuse et la Moselle; Cymaclymenia camerata du calcaire d'Etraeungt; Humboldtia avesnensis; Polypiers du Viseen du Boulonnais and more. (Uncut) $28

Thèses présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de Clermont-Ferrand pour obtenir le Grade de Docteur ès Sciences Naturelles. Par Pierre Grangeon. 1957 G. De Bussace, Clermont-Ferrand. * * * The cover and title page makes it sound like this fat book contains two Theses, BUT I believe it has only the first one. Thesis 1 : Contribution a l’ètude de la Paléontologie Végétale du Massif du Coiron. (Probably not in this binding – sorry, it is confusing - Thesis 2 - - -> Contribution a l’ètude des Terrains Tertiaires, de la Tectonique et du volcanisme du Massif Du Coiron.) This area is in the Southeast of the Central French Massive. Softcover, 11x8.5”, 299p.,7 plates, 7 text figures. In French. Very Good (lower spine end a bit rough, bumped corners). $42

Travaux des laboratoires de geolgie de la faculte des Sciences de Lyon : Nouvelle Serie 14. 1967. 10 papers, of which 5 are directly about Bryozoa and two are about biostratigraphy of the Neogene. 145p. $8

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