5 books for « william morris davis »Edit

‎PHYSICAL-GEOGRAPHY‎

‎Ginn&Compagny.In-8 percaline ill.432 p.Plate de A à I.Nombreuses ills.TBE.En anglais.Notes personnelles en page de garde.‎

‎Illustrations of the Earth’s Surface: Glaciers.‎

‎Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1881, in-Folio, 196 p. + 25 sepia photogr. plates with texts & tissue guards, (20 being of the Alps) including two double-page panoramas, exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, original green cloth, title gilt to frontcover and spine. Top-edge gilt. A fine copy.‎

‎First edition. Shaler (1841-1906) was Professor of Palaeontology and Davis was a Lecturer on Geology at Harvard University. The work purports to be „a body of graphic illustration of glacial phenomena, the text... designedly subordinate...“ Its great value is as a record of glacial movement in the Alps over the last hundred years as seen through these fine photographs.This work has a strong Swiss connection as Shaler must have been a student or associate of the great J.L.R. Agassiz (born in Switz. 1807 - died in Cambridge, Mass. 1873) whose monumental „Etudes sur les Glaciers“ was published in Neuchâtel, 1840 and who went on to Havard University to teach. There he established the Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1859. Agassiz made Harvard a centre for Natural History instruction and research. He was an advisor to the U.S. Coast Survey, for which Shaler also worked. In 1863 he was instrumental in the establshment of the National Academy of Sciences. Not in Perret. Image disp.‎

‎12 off-prints on geographical & geological matters.Glacial erosion in North Wales 1909, ill. with foldout mapTopographical maps of ther United States 1922, 4. p.The systematic description of land forms. 1909.The geographical cycle 1899.L’Esprit explicatif dans la Géographie moderne 1912A graduate scool of geography 1922Reviews of Alfred Hettner Die Oberflächenformen des Festlandes Cotton --Geomorphology of Newe Zealand 1923A reprospect of Geography 1932Nomenclature of surface forms on faulted structures 1913Piedmont Benchlands and primärrümpfe 1932The disciplinary value of geography 1911American studies on glacial EWrosion 1910.‎

‎ 1899-1932, lg. in-8vo, all offprints (not complete works !), with legacvy stamp offert by (‘Geschenk von Prof. Dr. Nussbaum’), wrappers.‎

‎+ 1 by George Davis Louderback: Basin range structure of the Humboldt region. 1904. offert by the author to Fritz Nussbaum. ‎

‎The cycle of erosion and the summit level of the Alps. Reprinted for private circulation from ‘The Journal of Geology, Vol. XXXI, N° 1, Jan.-Febr. 1923’.‎

‎ (1923) lg. in-8vo, 41 p. (+ 1 blanc), Stamp on cover ‘Geschenk von Prof. Dr. Nussbaum’ (Gift from), wrappers.‎

‎Collection of offrints on geology of the United States. 1) An excursion to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. 96 p. + 2 plates. 1901 / 2The disciplinary value of geography 1911 / 3) The Colorado Front Range A Study in Physiographic Presentation 1912 /4) Dana’s confirmation of Dawin’s theory of Coral Reefs 1913 / 5) Peneplains and the geographical cycle 1922 / 6) A graduate school of Geography. 1922 / 7) A working model of the tides. 1923 / 8) Rock floors in arid and in humid climates 1930.‎

‎ 1901 - 1930, lg. in-8vo, all with stamp on covers ‘Geschenk von Prof. Dr. Nussbaum’ (Gifts from), O.-Wrappers‎

‎9) Added: Carney, Frank: The climate of Ohio 1912 / 10) Kümmel, Henry B.: Geological section of New Jersey. 1909. ‎