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Papers presented at the Rubey Colloquium, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, Jan. 1986.It contains 40 chapters. Heavy volume.

Microprint of the original edition of 1507 to which are added the four voyages of Amerigo Vespucci. Latin and English translation. The German geographer, Martin Wiesenmueller, intended to explain a globe and a plane protection map of the world thereby given the New World its name "America." New and unused edition.

This volume explores the influence and the impact of the frontier in the development of the early Russian state. Publ. in 1976 by the University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 101 pages, in new condition. A valuable contribution to Russian Studies.

The first of three volumes on the life of Sir Charles Lyell, a Scottish geologist, is a much-needed and definitive study of one of the giants of geological science. This is a work of heroic proportions in which the author uses Lyell's letters, journals, and notebooks to elucidate his reasoning and to assemble evidence that led to the first truly scientific inquiry into the physical history of our planet. Mr. Wilson has utilized sources never before consulted and amply illustrates the text with 17 maps, photographs, and 52 sketches form Lyell's writings to present a richly detailed picture of the development of Lyell as a man and as a scientist against the background of his times. This is a 1st edition in excellent condition. It contains the stamp of the former owner of the book.