ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Showing The Ooperations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year 1870
by Smithsonian Institution
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1871. First edition. hardcover. Good +. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1871. First edition. hardcover. Good +. Octavo, brown cloth covers, 494 pages. Includes: Eulogy on Prof. Alexander Dlass Bache; autobiography of Francis Arago; an article on William Herschel, astronomer; Life and Times of Henry Gustavus Magnus; Thoughts on the Nature and Origin of Force by Taylor; Hydrogen as a Gas and a Metal by Dr. J. emerson Reynolds; Ethnology of the Indians of the Valley of the Red River of the North by Dr. W, H. Gardner; Antiquities in Tennessee, and more. Light wear on covers. 091306A
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- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000013757
- Title
- ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Showing The Ooperations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year 1870
- Author
- Smithsonian Institution
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington DC
- Date Published
- 1871
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