29th Apr, 2021 12:00
Fine Photographica & Instruments of Science
A Large collection of Books on Geology & Mineralogy
to include: Tomkeieff, Dictionary of Petrology, including an unpublished version in Russian with publishers letter; The Weathering of Natural Building Stones; Memoires of the Geological Survey, Scotland, 1924; Memoires of the Geological Survey, Scotland, 1931; Lindgren, Mineral Deposits; Seeley W Mudd, Industrial Minerals & Rocks, 1949; Edward Hull, On Building & Ornamental Stones; F.C. Philips, An Introduction to Crystallography; W.H. Brass & W.L.Bragg, The Crystalline State; Bunn, Chemical Crystallography; Daly, Igneous Rocks and the Depts of the Earth; Jenkins & White, Fundamentals of Optics, along with many geology Journals and offprints (a Lot)
Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Lithuanian geologist and petrologist. He was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna the capital of Lithuania. He came to Britain either during or just after the First World War and began lecturing in Geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920. In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald. In 1957 he became Professor of Petrology at the Anderson College.
He was the author of many books including; The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953); Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954); Isle of Arran (1961); The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969) Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous).
He was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966. He died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76
Sold for £62
Result plus buyers premium
to include: Tomkeieff, Dictionary of Petrology, including an unpublished version in Russian with publishers letter; The Weathering of Natural Building Stones; Memoires of the Geological Survey, Scotland, 1924; Memoires of the Geological Survey, Scotland, 1931; Lindgren, Mineral Deposits; Seeley W Mudd, Industrial Minerals & Rocks, 1949; Edward Hull, On Building & Ornamental Stones; F.C. Philips, An Introduction to Crystallography; W.H. Brass & W.L.Bragg, The Crystalline State; Bunn, Chemical Crystallography; Daly, Igneous Rocks and the Depts of the Earth; Jenkins & White, Fundamentals of Optics, along with many geology Journals and offprints (a Lot)
Professor Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff FRSE FGS (1892–1968) was a 20th-century Lithuanian geologist and petrologist. He was born on 20 October 1892 in Vilna the capital of Lithuania. He came to Britain either during or just after the First World War and began lecturing in Geology at Anderson College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1920. In 1948 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Arthur Holmes, James Ernest Richey, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey, Heslop Harrison, George Walter Tyrrell, John Weir, and H. B. Donald. In 1957 he became Professor of Petrology at the Anderson College.
He was the author of many books including; The Tholeite Dyke at Cowgate (1953); Coals, Bitumens and other Related Fossil Carbonaceous Substances (1954); Isle of Arran (1961); The Economic Geology of Quarried Materials (1969) Dictionary of Petrology (1983) (posthumous).
He was awarded the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1966. He died on 27 October 1968 in Newcastle aged 76
Auction: Fine Photographica & Instruments of Science, 29th Apr, 2021
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Pipers Way
THATCHAM
RG19 4EP
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