Recent Arrivals from Crossroads Books

The Society, 1958. reprinted. red cloth, cloth split 1/3rd along bottom rear spine, 327 pages, name stamped ffep, rear spine cracked, 327 pages, illustrated, numerous foldouts. good. The title of the book is self explanatory and is well understood by engineers and geologists.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. First Edition. beige cloth, white lettering on cover & spine, pencil notes title page, 206 pages, notes & underlining in pencil. good/none. World Perspectives Volume 19, It is the thesis of World Perspectives that man is in the process of developing a new consciousness which, in spite of his apparent spiritual and… Read more about this item

Allyn and Bacon, 1947. New Edition. decorative cloth, school stamp on ffep, 212 pages, illustrated. very good. Solid geometry can be the easiest and most fascinating of subjects, or one of the most difficult. by nature, it is one of the simplest; by limitations of language and printed symbols, it may be made one of the most obscure.… Read more about this item

Harcourt, Brace & World, INC, 1963. softcover, name written on half title page, pencil note on cover, 316 pages, indexed. very good. The specialized needs of America's technical and professional leaders for clear communication of vital ideas have re-emphasized the importance of the English language to the engineering and scientific student.

London: The English Universities Press LTD, 1969. First Printed. stapled binding, 8" x 10", name written on cover, 32 pages, illustrated. very good. The map exercises in this book ar designed to accompany the course set out in Reading Geological Maps by the same authors: this is the work book for that course.

London: Thomas Murby & Co, 1966. Second Impression. stapled binding, 8.5" x 11", green wrap, name written on cover. very good. This series of exercises is a companion to the author's widely used elementary Exercises upon Geological Maps and Simple Geological Structures. The former is a graded series of maps and exercises in which the elementary principles of… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Murby & Co, 1970. brown wrap, name written on cover, 8.5" x 11", illustrated, pages unnumbered. very good. This series of exercises is a companion work to the author's widely used Simple Geological Structures and his latest work, Selected Exercises upon Geological Maps. It is a graded series of maps and exercises in which the elementary… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Murby & Co, 1974. Metric Edition. stapled binding, 8.5" x 11", tape top & bottom of front cover, illustrated, owner stamp title page, pages unnumbered, No i Platt's Exercises has pencil marks. very goodd. Students of geology and physical geography have some difficulty in obtaining examples of simple geological maps. This series of exercises has been… Read more about this item

Germany: Carl Zeiss Oberkochen, 1969. softcover, name written on cover, 51 pages, illustrated. very good. Developments in Photogrammetric Instrument Construction During the Past 30 Years, Reviewed with Reference to Zeiss Equipment An Electronic Correlator for Planimat The Use of Affinity Techniques in Orthoprojection.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1942. hole punched binding, pale mint green wrap, written on cover, 2 foldouts, 48 pages. very good. Section 1, Equipment for Military Sketching, Section 2, Field Work Military Sketching, Section 3 Abreviations and Section 4, Military Symbols.

Washington: The National Geographic Magazine, 1909. June, 1909. magazine article inside a folder appears glued, photographs, 493-530 pages, name written on title page. very good. No field of geographic exploration, not even the kindred one of polar quests, has proved so fascinating during the last half century as that of lofty mountains in the various quarters of our… Read more about this item

Navy Department, 1940. stapled binding, cover stained, name written on cover, 8 photographs detached and foldout graphic triangulation, 23 pages. good. The Hydrographic Office has regularly used aerial photographs for compilation of land features in hydrographic surveys since 1923. Flying and photography, in most cases, have photographic mapping assignments have been executed well and satisfactorily, many under very… Read more about this item

Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1948. softcover, name written on cover, 87 pages. very good. Recognizing the need for authoritative definitions of surveying and mapping terms, the Federal Board of Surveys and Maps in 1938 appointed a special committee to prepared such definitions. Confronted with an apparent choice of making a complete examination of the terminology employed… Read more about this item

Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University, 1944. June, 1944. stapled binding, blue wrap, name written on cover, 23 pages. very good. In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of M.C.E. at Syracuse University, J. Oran Eichler prepared a discussion of his investigation of an analytical photogrammetric extension of horizontal control data through a strip of vertical aerial… Read more about this item

Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University, 1945. January, 1945. stapled binding, blue wrap, name written on cover, 48 pages. very good. This paper is a report of an investigation of an application of precise barometric altimetry to aerial photogrammetry. The project was sponsored by the Wallace and Tiernan Products Corporation, Belleville, New Jersey, manufacturers of the precise barometric altimeters… Read more about this item

Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University, 1944. February, 1944. stapled binding, blue wrap, name written on cover, 28 pages. very good. The value of aerial photogrammetry as a means of producing both topographic and planimetric maps is now unquestioned. The methods of applying photogrammetry to mapping, devised during the period of very rapid development of this science, have been… Read more about this item

Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University, 1945. July, 1945. stapled binding, blue wrap, name written on cover, 56 pages. very good. The geometry of the aerial photograph, as developed in this pamphlet, is quite different from that explained in any of the earlier numbers in this series of Bulletins on Photogrammetry published at Syracuse University.

Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University, 1948. November, 1948. stapled binding, blue wrap, name written on cover, 69 pages, illustrated. very good. The theory of Analytical Photogrammetry, as it is presented in this publication, is intended to be both general and complete. It is general in that it applies to both Terrestrial and Aerial Photogrammetry: In Terrestrial Photogrammetry, it… Read more about this item

Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1924. stapled binding, softcover, name written on cover, 35 pages. very good. This article was written to give some sort of answer to the questions: 1) How much might the best obtainable spheroid for the earth as a whole differ from the Clarke Spheroid of 1866, now officially adopted for the whole… Read more about this item

Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1936. softcover, name written on cover, 83 pages, 4 foldouts, indexed, illustrated, 1st 3 pages embossed owner name. very good. IN view of the growing interest in maps and charts as brought about by the interrelations of countries and communities, the purpose of this publication is to supply in outline form the… Read more about this item