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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. A very nice copy of book with only light wear. Former owner's embossment on flyleaf. Dust jacket is worn with scuffs, some edge wear, and a clipped flap corner. 364 page work on the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3rd, 1863. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: New. xxi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. Contents: Iddings' petrographic education: Graduate study at Yale ; The influence of Clarence King ; In Heidelberg with Rosenbusch ; Iddings meets Hague -- Assistant geologist with USGS I: Eureka, Nevada ; Washoe District/Virginia City, Nevada ; Early petrographic studies ; New acquaintances ; Petrography of Pacific volcanoes ; Rosenbusch and Zirkel ; Relations with Wadsworth -- Assistant geologist with USGS II: Washoe and the relation of rock names to geologic age ; Volcanic rocks of Central America ; Theories of variation -- Yellowstone country I: Introduction to Yellowstone ; Return to Eureka ; New Jersey lavas ; Obsidian Cliff ; Rhyolite ; Igneous rock structure in the Gallatin Mountains ; Breccias -- Yellowstone country II: Volcanic cores ; Haystack Mountain ; The Crazy Mountain ; A translation project ; Solutions and the crystallization of magmas ; Electric Peak -- Igneous rock classification and differentiation: The problem of rock classification ; Rosenbusch's new classification ; Collaboration with Rosenbusch? ; Reaction to Iddings' paper on Electric Peak ; The origin of igneous rocks -- Europe and Chicago: Impressions of John Judd ; A visit with J.J.H. Teall ; Reunion with Rosenbusch ; A visit to Mount Vesuvius ; The Lipari Islands ; Sicily ; Paris and London ; The Fifth International Geological Congress ; The call to Chicago -- Rethinking igneous rock classification: Approach to the classroom ; A letter from Pirsson ; Replies to Iddings' letter ; The Washington conference and its aftermath ; The four preliminary essays ; More conferences ; A joint textbook? -- A second trip to Europe: More summer fieldwork? ; Summer of 1893 in Europe ; Camping with Henry Adams and John Hay ; A plea from Johns Hopkins ; Henry S. Washington ; Charles Van Hise -- The Seventh International Geological Congress: Scandinavia ; The Seventh International Geological Congress ; Post-Congress field excursions. The quantitative igneous rock classification: Agitation over the state of igneous rock classification ; Brogger's view ; Iddings' papers on rock classification ; Reaction to the two papers ; International committee on igneous rock nomenclature ; Renewed collaboration on a quantitative classification ; Working relations within the C.I.P.W. quartet ; Discarding and accepting facets of the classification ; Anxiety as the end approaches -- Reception of the classification and new challenges: Reception of the C.I.P.W. igneous rock classification ; The founding of the Geophysical Laboratory ; Mining litigation ; Brogger in America -- Major publications: Arthur L. Day and feldspars ; A new textbook on rock minerals ; Directorship of the U.S. Geological Survey ; Adventures at home and abroad ; Volume I of Igneous rocks ; Retrospect on the summer of 1908 -- Journey to the Orient : Japan: The dream ; En route to the Pacific ; In Japan ; Trip to northern Japan ; Return to Honshu -- Journey to the Orient : Korea and China: Korea ; Fossil hunting in Manchuria ; Iddings in China -- Journey to the Orient : the Philippines and Japan: Hong Kong ; Luzon ; Iddings assesses the prospects of the Philippines ; Petrological work ; Back to Japan ; Kyushu ; Shikoku ; Back on Honshu -- Journey to the Orient : the East Indies: On the China Sea ; Singapore ; Java ; Celebes ; Sumatra -- Igneous rocks II: Homeward bound ; From Aden to Suez ; Genoa to England ; Volume II of Igneous rocks ; The reception of volume II -- Problems: Flashback ; Reaction to "Problems in petrology" ; The problem of volcanism ; Lectures in Great Britain ; The second journey around the world -- Return to the East Indies: On the sea ; In Java again.