More People, Less Erosion: Environmental Recovery in Kenya (Kenyan edition) by Tiffen, Mary, Michael Mortimore, and Francis Gichuki - 1994

London: The Richards Press, 1928. 260pp. Quarto. Six coloured plates (from paintings by the author) and 276 b/w illusts. Appendix and index. Top edge gilt. Original blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine and gilt titling and gilt steamship decoration on upper board. Spine very slightly sunned. Rare. *"In 1831 the Sophia Jane, 256 gross tonnage and 50h.p., created great excitement as the first steamship to enter Sydney Harbour. From this it is a far cry to the present epoch of great floating palaces, with wondrous engines, measuring their tonnage and horse-power by scores of thousands, and able, through the marvel of Wireless, to keep in touch with the world on the most distant courses" (from the foreword by Sir Granville Ryrie, High Commissioner for Australia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

New York: John Wiley and Son, 1868 IN GOOD CONDITION. xiii [1] 164pp, bound in original blind stamped, brown cloth, with gilt on spine still bright. Includes engraved text illustrations throughout. Covers show worn corners, loss to upper/lower edges of backstrip, few backstrip chips with paper label on spine from private owner, front gutter starting, ownership on ffp.. BINDING TIGHT.

Leipzig: Verlag Von Otto Wigand COVERS IN FAIR CONDITION, INTERIOR IN GOOD++ CONDITION. 1897-98. [4] 123pp [1]; xii [2] 711pp, bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, WITH BINDING AND HINGES TIGHT. Vol. I - Naturliche Systematik der Azofarbstoffe. Vol. II - Fabrikation und Anwendung der Azofarbstoffe. Text is in German. Lacks leather spine label, back cover has seen water damage - with lower corner absent and marbled paper absent, with damp marks extending into some of the back pages. TEXTILE, DYEING, CHEMISTRY, INDUSTRY. Bookplate inside front cover "Bibliotheta Martiana".

Chapman and Hall. London. 1930. FIRST U. K. EDITION. 8vo. (8.4 x 6 inches). Illustrated throughout with photos, portraits and diagrams. A fine copy in a fine early binding of half brown diced calf possibly bound by, J. C. Wilbee, publisher and bookseller to Harrow school, and with a Harrow School label on the front pastedown endpaper. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments ruled, lettered and fully decorated in gilt, including the Harrow crossed arrows symbol in two compartments. Brown cloth on boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Overall a fine, beautifully bound, copy.

Privately Printed, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. 1931 University of Wyoming doctoral thesis submitted by Joseph Conrad Twinem pertaining to the genesis of the geological development of the lithosphere of southeastern Wyoming. Includes discussions of dozens of formations and numerous skillfully executed watercolors of cross-sections of formations, etc. Of special interest are four large watercolors, two of them 3-panel fold outs, of Wyoming landscapes, and one of the Rock Creek oil fields. Also includes 36 2 3/4" x 4 1/2" original, unique photos inserted in corner mounts - views of Wyoming camp facilities, canyons, mountains, striking geological features, Independence Rock, gold mining operations, the Pathfinder Dam, Parco, Wyoming (street view), oil distillers, a Snow Range sericite mine and much more. No exaggeration; this thesis is a work of art and unique. Notably, Twinem was the former Maine State Geologist, also an accomplished petroleum engineer and geologist. Bound in burgundy cloth… Read More

London: The Richards Press, 1928. 260pp. Quarto. Six coloured plates (from paintings by the author) and 276 b/w illusts. Appendix and index. Top edge gilt. Original blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine and gilt titling and gilt steamship decoration on upper board. Spine very slightly sunned. Rare. *"In 1831 the Sophia Jane, 256 gross tonnage and 50h.p., created great excitement as the first steamship to enter Sydney Harbour. From this it is a far cry to the present epoch of great floating palaces, with wondrous engines, measuring their tonnage and horse-power by scores of thousands, and able, through the marvel of Wireless, to keep in touch with the world on the most distant courses" (from the foreword by Sir Granville Ryrie, High Commissioner for Australia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

New York: John Wiley and Son, 1868 IN GOOD CONDITION. xiii [1] 164pp, bound in original blind stamped, brown cloth, with gilt on spine still bright. Includes engraved text illustrations throughout. Covers show worn corners, loss to upper/lower edges of backstrip, few backstrip chips with paper label on spine from private owner, front gutter starting, ownership on ffp.. BINDING TIGHT.

Leipzig: Verlag Von Otto Wigand COVERS IN FAIR CONDITION, INTERIOR IN GOOD++ CONDITION. 1897-98. [4] 123pp [1]; xii [2] 711pp, bound in 3/4 leather & marbled paper, raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, WITH BINDING AND HINGES TIGHT. Vol. I - Naturliche Systematik der Azofarbstoffe. Vol. II - Fabrikation und Anwendung der Azofarbstoffe. Text is in German. Lacks leather spine label, back cover has seen water damage - with lower corner absent and marbled paper absent, with damp marks extending into some of the back pages. TEXTILE, DYEING, CHEMISTRY, INDUSTRY. Bookplate inside front cover "Bibliotheta Martiana".

Privately Printed, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. 1931 University of Wyoming doctoral thesis submitted by Joseph Conrad Twinem pertaining to the genesis of the geological development of the lithosphere of southeastern Wyoming. Includes discussions of dozens of formations and numerous skillfully executed watercolors of cross-sections of formations, etc. Of special interest are four large watercolors, two of them 3-panel fold outs, of Wyoming landscapes, and one of the Rock Creek oil fields. Also includes 36 2 3/4" x 4 1/2" original, unique photos inserted in corner mounts - views of Wyoming camp facilities, canyons, mountains, striking geological features, Independence Rock, gold mining operations, the Pathfinder Dam, Parco, Wyoming (street view), oil distillers, a Snow Range sericite mine and much more. No exaggeration; this thesis is a work of art and unique. Notably, Twinem was the former Maine State Geologist, also an accomplished petroleum engineer and geologist. Bound in burgundy cloth… Read More

New York: Harcourt, 2002. Signed on the title page by Scott Carpenter. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, white paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Carpenter was one of the original Mercury 7, and our fourth man in space. Carpenter went on to be an Aquanaut for the SeaLab Project. He was the author of two science fiction novels.