Geology. Dr Roger Stuart Harker (1943-1983), manuscripts and...

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Geology. Dr Roger Stuart Harker (1943-1983), manuscripts and research, his field notebook, dated 8th November, 1965 - 21st August, 1968, 76ff of manuscript, almost all inscribed on both sides of the leaf, with two later leaves with slight annotation, the rest inscribed with location, lodes, further data, and sometimes illustrated with strata, contemporary cloth over boards, 12mo; another, This book is essential my mapping thesis [...], dated 8th August, 1962 - 11th August, 1965, inscribed verso and dated 1964-1966, [107]; [62]ff, conforming to the latter notebook, though the second part with further pen-and-ink strata and further illustrations, contemporary cloth over papered boards, worn, oblong 8vo; Optical Mineralogy, in six parts, n.d. [1961-64], autograph manuscript of Harker's student notes/research, [i], 74, 91-99pp, paginated yet [75-90] unpaginated blank, inscribed recto only and each leaf with a drawn and coloured illustration, presumably of a mineral specimen under a microscope, cloth over vinyl boards, lettered University of Leicester in gilt, 4to; Miscellaneous Jottings, dated 20th March, 1974 - 29th April, 1975, [17]ff, last leaf recto only, a couple of in-text illustrations, predominantly on visits to and specimens from sites in the East Midlands, the Isle of Man, and Cornwall, sometimes France, some discussion of the Rimington and Ruskin collections, contemporary cloth over moiré boards, 4to; A Catalogue to the Collection of Roger S. Harker, Lythe House, Grassington, later erased and then inscribed: Lythe Minerals: Rock + Mineral Master List, n.d. [c. 1960-70], 625 numbered specimens, occasionally annotated, cloth over buckram, folio; Harker's North American notebook, 17th July-26th July, 1975, [15]ff, mostly inscribed both sides, two leaves loose but present, Ohio State University notebook, 8vo; a folder of typed research, notes, ephemera, a few photographs and further illustrations of lead mining and smelting in the Cumbria and North Yorkshire, compiled in the 70s, transcripts , original prospectuses and further printed ephemera of The Grimwith Lead Mining Company, "Limited"; tracings of sections with strata, the East Levant Mine, Haggs Mine, plan of Old Gang Mine, transcripts; further manuscript and other printed papers, plus his field compasses, (5)