[meteorite-list] AD: Library IV (and last) - Historic Impactica, Bolidica, Meteoritic Miscellana

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:47:00 +0200
Message-ID: <021601cdb14e$c9c63cf0$5d52b6d0$_at_de>

...and finally the last delivery of the antiquarian sale.

All items will be shipped from Monday on after the Munich Show.

Thank you for participating & patience,

All the Best!
Martin


General:

47) NORDSTROEM

T.Nordstroem:
Om Meteoriter.
Laesning foer Folket N?43, 1871

18 pages. Good.

15$


48) KRECKE

F.W.Krecke:
De Meteoorsteenen.
Print oft he Album der Natuur, 1883

46 pages. 9 engravings (Juvinas, Orgueil, Sierra de Chaco, Caille, Carthago,
Krasnojarsk, Uden, Blauwkapel).
Several stamps of the university Delft. Enclosed library catalogue card.
Few pages a little loose, but a very good copy.

35$


49) SCHWINNER

R.Schwinner:
Meteoriten und Geologie.
Separate print from Gerlands Beitr?ge zur Geophysik, Vol.16, Leipzig 1927

28 pages. Delft university library stamp on front.
(Lots of formulas to calculate impacts). Inside two contemporary handwritten
sheets in English and Dutch (looks like a student hat to held a lesson about
tektites).
Good.

20$


Collections:

50) ESCHER

B.G.Escher:
Korte Handleiding ten Gebruike bij de Bestudeering der Meteoriten
in der Verzameling Algemeene Geologie van het Geol.-Mineralogisch Museum
der Technische Hoogeschool de Delft.
Delft 1913.

27 pages. 3 figures in text. Delft university stamp on cover.
Mint.

(Remark: it is a guide for visitors of the museum. General explaining
meteorites and the exhibits/meteorites they should parallel look at, are
given on the margin. Nice.)

28$


51) HENDERSON

E.P.Henderson:
American Meteorites and the National Collection.
Separate print from Annual Report Smithsonian Institution. Washington 1948.

18 pages. 6 full-page plates showing Pima County, Allegan, Exhibit of the
U.S. National Museum (with Drum Mountains, Canyon Diablo, Owens Valley),
Sardis, Bennett County, Aggie Creek, Edmonton, Wiley, Mt.Vernon and
microscopic views of Roy, Elm Creek, Tennasilm, Moore County.

Very good to mint.

19$


Impact structures:


52) MALBAIE

P.B.Robertson:
La Malbaie Structure, Quebec - A Paleozoic Meteorite Impact Site.
Contributions from the Dominion Observatory N?249, Ottawa 1968

24 pages. Many photos and maps.
Very good.

22$


53) HOLLEFORD

P.Andrieux, J.F.Clark:
Application des m?thodes ?lectriques de prospection ? l'?tude du crat?re
d'Holleford.
Contributions from the Dominion Observatory N?252, Ottawa 1969

14 pages. Cover lost. Various photos, maps, diagrams.
Fine.

14$


Meteors & Fireballs:

54) Hoffmeister

C.Hoffmeister:
?ber Meteorbachtungen.
16 pages. Some figures in text.
Issue oft he Naturwissenschaftliche Wochenschrift. Naumburg March 3, 1918.
Larger format. (Some nice art nouveau advertizings inside of cover).
Very good.

16$


55) Fireball

F.Watson Jr :
The Detonating Fireball of May 26, 1935.
Print from Popular Astronomy, Vol.44, N?3, Harvard Reprint 120, 1936.

4 pages. 1 sketch in text. Harvard reprint stamp on cover and 1st page.
Very good.

10$



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