Tenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey 1888-89 Part 1 Geology
by Powell, J.W
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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890. xv, 774, 98 plates (some folding, some double-page), folding col maps (including large map in rear pocket), 69 b/w figs. . HB. 4to, orig. cloth, rubbed, scuffed and a little worn. From a society library (Letchworth and District Naturalists' Society Museum Library). Good.. Contains three large papers: General Account of the Fresh-Water Morasses of the United States, with a Description of the Dismal Swamp District of Virginia and North Carolina, by N.N. Southgate; The Penokee Iron-Bearing Series of Michigan and Wisconsin, by R.D. Irving & C.R. van Hise and The Fauna of the Lower Cambrian or Olenellus Zone, by C.D. Walcott. The tenth Annual Report was produced by John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) who served as the second director of the U.S. Geological Survey, 18811894. The volume contains a series of important papers, accompanied with fascinating black and white illustrations and attractive lithographic maps. Includes a large fold-out map 76cm x 50cm, Map of the United States exhibiting the progress of the topographic survey during the fiscal year1888-9 by Henry Gannett..
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- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
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- Title
- Tenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey 1888-89 Part 1 Geology
- Author
- Powell, J.W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- Geological maps; Geology; United States; North America; America
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
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We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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