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Zustand: Fair. 1923. No Edition Remarks. 312 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.

Zustand: Good. - Octavo, 9-7/8 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover, light grey printed wraps. The edges of the covers are chipped with a few short tears. There is dampstaining along the front edge of the front cover and bottom inner corners of both covers. viii & 456 pages, illustrated with 2 folding charts.Both are charts of the "U.S. Coast Survey / A.D. Bache, superintendent", the first being "Sketches Nos. 1 to 5 / Showing the set of currents in Sandy Hook Bay". The other is a folding chart depicting the "Curves Illustrating the Descent of the Sounding Weight and Line in Deep Sea Soundings, 1858". There is dampstaining to the front edge of the first 74 pages and the top corner of several other pages. Good. Included is an article "On an Earthquake in Western New York" by C.E. West [pages 177 through 182]; an article "On Chinese Poisons" by D.J. Macgowan, M.D.; "Observations upon the Practicability of reaching the North Pole - with a map" by Isaac L. Hayes, M.D. [no map was published] [pages 305 through 323]; an article on "The Atlantic Cable" [pages 285 through 288]; an article on "Photography - Sensitiveness of Photographic Reagents" [page 397]; W.P. Towbridge "On Deep Sea Explorations" [pages 386-391; G.C. Swallow of Missouri on "The Rocks of Kansas" [pages 182 through 186]; "Sixth Supplement to Dana's Mineralogy" by the author [pages 345 through 364]; D.F. Weinland on the "Zoology of Hayti" (i.e. Haiti) [pages 210 through 214]; and Charles Lyell "On the Formation of Volcanic Cones" [pages 214 through 219].

Zustand: Fine. Heavy set, will require extra shipping. weight: 31.2 lb. Fine in near fine slipcases. 22.5x14 cm. collation not provided Full brown leather, red spine labels, gilt spine titles, top edges gilt, decorative endpapers, in matching leather slipcases.