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Two odd volumes of Geological Society of America photo books. Small oblong quarto [20 cm x 27 cm]; Oblong duodecimo [13 cm x 18 cm]. First book: Cover title and seven photographs on 1/4 brown cloth with gray card boards held together with a string tie binding. In calligraphy on the front board: "G. S. A. Photographs." The photographs measure 16.5 cm wide x 11.5 cm tall. Caption titles on paper strips mounted below the photographs. Numbers on small strips mounted in top fore-edge corners. With the following photographs present: 495- "28. Terraces of Tertiary Lake Beds, near Salmon City, Idaho, on the Lemhi River."; 496- "29. Terraces of Tertiary Lake Beds, on Lemhi River near Salmon City, Idaho."; 497- "30. Old Gold diggings - work 1859-65. Leesburg, Idaho, on Napias Creek."; 498- "32. Rocky cut for sluice, California Bar, Idaho."; 499- "33. Discharge sluice California Bar, Idaho."; 500- "31. Hydraulic Mining at California Bar, Idaho."; 501- "No. Basal Cambrian sandstones of section at mouth of Two-mile Canyon, 2 miles south of Malad City, Idaho (562) C.D.W. 1898." Condition: Very good. Light wear and waviness to boards. Numerical notations crossed out in top fore-edge corners. Second book: Thirty-seven linen-backed photographs mounted between gray card boards with 1/4 brown cloth. Front board completely detached, but present. The photographs measure 16.5 cm wide x 11.5 cm tall. With typed titles, and some notations in pencil/pen on the reverse. Numbers mounted in the top fore-edge corners of the photographs. With the following photographs present: 747- "Shore of lake Ontario, Niagara county, New York. Illustrated mode of origin of beach shingle by showing rock in place and (?) rocks recently detached."; 748- "Beach of flat shingle. Shore of lake Ontario at Golden Hill Creek, New York." 749- "Beach of well rounded shingle. Shore of lake Ontario at Golden Hill Creek, New York."; 750- "Cemented shingle in spit of glacial lake Iroquois at Lewiston, New York."; 751- "Section of spit of glacial lake Iroquois at Lewiston, N.Y. The dip is landward, indicating growth on the inside of the spit."; 752- "Section of spit of glacial lake Iroquois at Lewiston. The dip is landward, indicating growth on inside of spit." 753- "Cut terrace of the Iroquois shore line, 2 miles west of Dickensonville, N.Y. Lacustrine plain, bed of lake Iroquois, near Jeddo, N.Y. The water edge was at base of cliff. The cliff is carved from Medina shale."; 754- "Till plain, 1/2 mile south of Jedoo, Niagara county, N.Y."; 755- "Cross bedding and unconformity in sand kame, 3 miles east of Lockport, N.Y."; 756- "Till Shore of lake Ontario, Wilson, N.Y."; 757- "Deposit by torrent of Erian water on the withdrawal of the ice sheet from the escarpment at Lewiston, N.Y. Unassorted and unworn alluvi(?)."; 758- "Section of talus, Niagara gorge."; 759- "Angular gravel in kame, south of Royalton, Niagara county, N. Y."; 760- "Solitary gravel kame, 3 miles south of Middleport, N. Y."; 761- Escarpment of the Niagara limestone; looking west from a point on the talus near Lewiston, N.Y."; 762- "Niagara escarpment capped by niagara limestone; looking east from a point 5 miles west of Lockport, N.Y."; 763- "Niagara escerpment [sic] without capping of Niagara limestone; looking west from a point near Middleport, New York."; 764- "Drowned valley of Twelve-mile creek, Niagara county, N.Y. near Wilson. Water lilies grow on submerged alluvial plain."; 765- "Head of estuary of Twelve-mile creek, Niagara county, N.Y. Submerged alluvial plain supports rushes."; 766- "Estuary of Eighteen-mile creek, near Olcott, Niagara county, N.Y. Channel deep, current slow. Submerged alluvial plain supports rushes."; 767- "Valley of Eighteen-mile creek, Niagara county, N.Y., above head of estuary. Channel shallow, current rapid; alluvial plain supports rushes."; 768- "Post-Glacial anticline, Hopkins creek, Niagara county, N.Y. The displacement of the rocks is accompanied by a superficial ridge traversing an alluvial terrace." 769- "Section of Niagara limestone, Cooks quarry, near La Salle, Niagara county, N.Y. Shows structure described by James Hall, Geology of 4th district N.Y., pages 93 and 94."; 770- "Section in cut of Erie Railroad, Niagara falls, N.Y. Shows structure described by James Hall, Geology of the 4th district, N.Y., pages 93 and 94."; 771- "Weathering of Niagara limestone by solution. A joint face exposed in quarrying southwest of Middleport, N.Y."; 772- "Weathering of Niagara limestone by solution; old quarry southwest of Middleport, N.Y."; 773- "Unconformity by erosion. Sandstones and shales of the Medina format Niagara gorge."; 774- "Isolated limestone mass at base of Niagara shale, containing 'transition fauna' of Ringueberg."; 775- Section of ripplemark on Medina sandstone, Lockport, N.Y. From crest to crest 23 feet; depth of trough 29 inches.";776- "Flagstone in court-house yard, Elyria, Ohio. Shows reticulated ripplemarks."; 777- "Trough of large ripplemark in Medina sandstone, Niagara gorge, N.Y."; 778- "Crest of large ripplemark in Medina sandstone, quarry near Lewiston, N.Y."; 779- "Crest of large ripple-mark in Medina sandstone. Quarry in Lockport, N.Y."; 780- "Diverse cross-bedding associated with large ripplemarks in Medina sandstone. Quarry near Lewiston, N.Y."; 781- "Quarry dace in Medina sandstone, Lockport, N.Y."; 782- "Quarry face in Niagara limestone, Lockport, N.Y. The joint face shows weather fracture."; 783- Shore of lake Ontario at Wilson, N.Y. Train of shore drift from right, being arrested by bew-pin, begins to accumulate and partly protects bluff from wave, attack. Dearth of shore drift under lee of pier fevors(?) wave attack; bluff eaten back 45 feet. Bluff contains two tills and cover of laminated clay, a deposit from lake Iroquois. Boulder pavement at top of lower till, indicated by arrow." Condition: Good only, due to the detached cover. The photographs are in very good condition. Two photo books with forty-four photograph. …