The Collected Geological Works of Frank Bursley Taylor (Sammelband of 32 pamphlets presentated to Harvard by the author)

Frank Bursley Taylor

Various: American Society of Science; Geological Society of America; American Geologist; University of Chicago; Toronto University; Smithsonian, 1892

[Author's presentation copy: Unique piece] 32 pamphlets bound together by the author in a nonce volume.  "Presented by the author, 1922." Burgundy cloth with black cloth spine label.  Internal binding weakened, loosening.  Many of the front wraps bound in, with a Library of the Mus. Comp. Zoology, Cambridge Mass, blind stamp.  Clean, unmarked pages.  Numerous plates, maps. Harvard University Library Museum of Comparative Zoology bookplate, Gift of Author, January 24, 1922.  Signed by "the author" on the front end page.  Most of the articles deal with the glacial geology of the Great Lakes, Taylor's specialty.  Taylor was a Harvard educated geologist who established continental drift theory in 1908.  Includes his important article, "Bearing of the Tertiary Mountain Belt on the origin of the Earth's plan," Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Vol. 21, pp. 179-226, pl.4. 1910.  This article detailed his theory.  Also includes many articles on Niagara Falls, moraines, Adirondack Lake, Lake Superior,  Lake Nipissing, Berkshires, etc.  Please contact our booksellers for a detailed list of the contents.   See Anthony Hallam, A Revolution in the Earth Sciences; From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics (Oxford, 1973), 3–6, and Ursula Marvin, Continental Drift: The Evolution of a Concept (Washington, D.C., 1973), 63–64.