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See Description, 1883-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Cover shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, and soiling. Loose hinges. Foxing on the edges and endpapers, pages are tanned and mostly clean. Due to the excessive size and weight of this book, additional shipping will be requested for expedited and international orders.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office. Good+. 1883. Hardcover. Maps, Lithographs; Heliotypes; drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 564 pages; 1883 Government Printing Office. Large format HC in original burgundy colored cloth with titles to spine and pictorial vignette to cover in gilt. Binding sound and cotnets generally neat. Moderate silverfish predation patchiness to cloth boards and spine. Prior owner name penned top edge of front endpage. Brings together 6 papers by various authors on different geological and zooligical matters. Includes -- / by Prof. O. C. Marsh. The copper-bearing rocks of Lake Superior / by Roland D. Irving. Sketch of the geological history of Lake Lahontan / by Israel C. Russell. Abstract of the report on the geology of the Eureka District, Nevada / by Arnold Hague. Preliminary paper on the terminal moraine of the second glacial epoch / by Thomas C. Chamberlin. A review of the non-marine fossil mollusca of North America / by C. A. White. Illustrated with… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883. xviii, 564, XXV + 32 plates (some folding, some double-page), 11 folding, col maps. . HB. Ex-lib, Letchworth and District Naturalists' Society Museum Library. 4to, orig. cloth, rubbed, scuffed and a little worn; some light occassional foxing, otherwise a good copy of this Annual Report.. Contains six large papers: Birds with Teeth, by O. C. Marsh; The Copper-Bearing Rocks of Lake Superior by R. D. Irving; Sketch of the Geological History of Lake Lahontan, a quaternary lake of northern Nevada, by I. C. Russell; Abstract of the report on the geology of the Eureka District, Nevada, by A. Hague; Preliminary paper on the terminal moraine of the second glacial epoch, by T.C. Chamberlin; A Review of the nonmarine fossil mollusca of North America by C. A. White. The United States Geological Survey was established by an act of Congress in 1879 and was charged with the 'classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral… Read More

WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1893, 1893 Book. Very Good-Very Good (+) Book. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Brown hardcover with gilt spine title & gilt cover art. About 11-1/2 x 8 with 321 pages, plus map insert at the inside cover. The cover is lightly rubbed with a solid binding and clean pages. Gift inscription from Prof. C. D. Walcott [Charles Doolittle Walcott, 4th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1907-1927), and 3rd Director of the United States Geological Survey (1894-1907), among other accolades] dated 1896 at the front free endpaper. That same year he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Rare!.