Price: US$4.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 11 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek und trägt die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.). Schnitt und Einband sind etwas staubschmutzig; Buchschnitt und Seitenränder alters-/papierbedingt angebräunt; Einbandkanten leicht bestossen; der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. Englische Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 30
Seller: books4less (Versandantiquariat Petra Gros GmbH & Co. KG), Welling, Germany
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original red blind embossed boards have soiling with gilt spine print worn off. Rubbing and bumping of edges and corners. Spine darkened. Ex-library markings from Scotland, with many penciled notations on contents on front endpapers. Last free endpaper missing a piece where it stuck to the rear board. Main text free of markings. 473pp. General appendix containing research reports takes up most of the volume and includes biographies of some well-known mathematicians and scientists. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Back of Beyond Books WH, Moab, UT, U.S.A.
. Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1872. Government Printing Office, 1873.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: Front end page is detached. Cloth of cover is torn and cover nearly detached. Pages tanned otherwise contents are legible and intact. Volume is in FAIR condition. EX-libris
Seller: GloryBe Books & Ephemera, LLC, Deforest, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.17 + shipping
Description: 261pp, G (reading copy only, binding barely attached, soiled and water damaged.)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library of a historical society, with bookplate inside and sticker on spine; last approximately 100 pages dampstained. Articles: Principles of Crystallography; Meteorology in Russia; Ancient Aboriginal Trade in North America; North American Stone Implements; more.
Seller: Acme Book Company, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A Good copy (ownership stamps) in rubbed green cloth lettered in gold. Tanning at edges and endpapers, sound binding, clean within.
Seller: Row By Row Bookshop, Sugar Grove, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good+ hardcover, no DJ. Dark green sand-grain cloth over boards, gilt stamped titles on spine; Clean, square covers and spine; faint damp stain on front cover at lower fore corner; tightly bound; owner bookplate on front paste down; clean interior with slight general age darkening; leaves remain supple; foxing on few terminal leaves. Appended articles include: Eulogy on Ampere; Meteorology in Russia; Cave-Dwellers of the Valley of the Vezere; Ancient Aboriginal Trade in North America; and more on: blow pipes, stone tools, Green River of Sierra Nevadas, nitrogen bodies in organic chemistry, and short pieces on sites in Arizona, Dakotas, Illinois, Kentucky, Georgia; much more. 8vo, 456 pp; index; illustrated.
Seller: Lee Madden, Book Dealer, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previously bound, 14 pages, two very small chips front page, otherwise excellent condition. Ex. Doc. No. 38 of the Senate of the 42nd Congress, 3rd Session. Contains reports from the Presidents of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads, along with lists of stockholders and officers.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previously bound, 8 pages, excellent condition. Ex. Doc. No. 40 of the Senate of the 42nd Congress, 3rd Session. Contains letters, some in Spanish, concerning a land grant claim in New Mexico of Antonio Sandoval. The Surveyor-General, James K. Proudfit, expresses the opinion that the claim is genuine and that Antonio Sandoval deeded the land to his nephew, Gervacio Nolan in 1848.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previously bound, 7 pages, excellent condition. Ex. Doc. No. 41 of the Senate of the 42nd Congress, 3rd Session. Contains a report by Henry M. Robert, Major of Engineers, United State Army. In the report, Major Robert recommends the Government build a breakwater at Port Orford in southern Oregon, and also purchase the headland to quarry.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Office Of The Superintendent Of Government Printing, 1874. Reports. HardPress Publishing, 1873.
Price: US$26.98 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
Price: US$29.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good,moderate shelfwear,spine fade,inkname,spine ends frayed Condition of the Institution for the Year 1871
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cloth. Good. First Edition. Reference. By Owner. foxing, spine faded,
Seller: Open Door Books MABA, Bath, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Senate, 42d Congress, 3d Session, Ex. Doc. No. 45; ordered to be printed on February 14, 1873. Land-claim No. 71 is to Francisco Salazar et al. for the Canon de Chama tract, in Rio Arriba County and No. 72 is to Ventura Trujillo for the Apache Spring tract in San Miguel County. Disbound, removed from original binding, no cover or boards, 8vo; good+ (toned; top third of side edge crimped from front to back; fold-out maps caused indentation to pages opposite; edgeworn) with two vg maps (San Joaquin del Rio de Chama grant toned, browned along disbound edge with brown spot; Exhibit O map toned); 20pp + two fold-out maps entitled Sketch Map of the San Joaquin del Rio de Chama Grant, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico and Exhibit O: Sketch Map of Ojo del Apache Grant.
Seller: Page 1 Books - Special Collection Room, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. VG condition. Bound in full black cloth with gilt titles and a chalked ownership number on the spine. The binding is quite tight and strong and the contents are clean with 1018 pages. With a few ownership stamps and bookplates.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4". xix, 523pp. Original cloth, front cover and backstrip detached, backstrip laid in. Lacking front free endpaper and any leaves which preceded the title, small tear in one leaf with loss of three letters. Fair only.
Seller: Zamboni & Huntington, Bangor, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$31.18 + shipping
Description: in-8, 292 pages- cartes & graphiques repliés, figures. Toile noire de l'éditeur. - Menus défauts au cartonnage, intérieur frais.
Seller: Librairie Devaux, Moulins, FR, France
Price: US$33.41 + shipping
Description: INGLESE Rapporto annuale dell'anno 1872 "Annual report of chief signal-officer to the secretary of war". Lingua inglese. Coperta rigida, telata ed ingiallita dal tempo presentante segni di usura da scaffale ai margini con abrasioni agli stessi, tracce di usura da sfregamento ai piatti ed etichetta precedente alla cuffia inferiore. Pagine godibili anche se ingiallite dal tempo e sporadicamente fiorite; lieve ondulazione dei fogli dovuta alla naturale umidità dei secoli non recante impedimento alcuno alla fruibilità. Piccoli segni a penna ed a matita alla pagina di guardia. Il volume potrebbe contenere timbri ed etichette dell'Istituto Veneto, regolarmente acquisito dalla nostra libreria. Numero pagine 292.
Seller: Biblioteca di Babele, Tarquinia, VT, Italy
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previously bound, 20 pages, excellent condition save some folds in right edges not affecting text. Ex. Doc. No. 45 of the Senate of the 42nd Congress, 3rd Session. Contains several letters, some in Spanish, that deal with private land claims in New Mexico, still a territory at this time. Also includes two fold out sketch maps.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.98 + shipping
Description: In 8°, pp. 473. Tela editoriale bruna con titolo oro sul dorso. Copia in buono stato. Fra i diversi articoli segnaliamo: Alternate generation and parthenogenesis in the animal kingdom, di G. A, Kornhuber; Recent researches on the secular variations of the planetary orbits, di John N. Stockwell; On some methods of interpolation to the graduation of irregular series, such as tables on mortality, &c., di Erastus L. De Forest; Indian mounds near Fort Wadsword, Dakota territory, di A. J. Comfort; On the languages of the Dakota or Sioux indians, di F. L. O. Roehrig.
Seller: Libreria antiquaria Atlantis (ALAI-ILAB), Torino, Italy
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Senate, 43d Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 3; ordered to be printed on December 4, 1873. Disbound, removed from original binding, no cover or boards, 8vo; EX-LIBRARY (Syracuse University Library stamps on outside panel of maps); poor (toned; nine stitch holes along disbound edge; chip to pages along top of disbound edge from front to back; bottom half of p1-2 torn along disbound edge, only partially attached; several chips, large and small, to side edge of p13-4 along disbound edge; pp5-12, incl. second map, loose and laid in; pp7-10 loose and laid in; tear to side edge of pp1-6) with two good+ fold-out maps (toned; bound side edge of first map browned; two Syracuse University Library stamps on outside panel of first map and one on outside panel of second map); 13pp + two fold-out maps entitled Sketch Showing Approximately the Boundaries of Grant Originally Made to 'Bartolo Marques and Francisco Padilla,' and Its Supposed Position with Reference to the Public Surveys and Juan Luis Ortiz Grant, Showing Approximately the Boundaries Extending from N. to S. 15 Miles, from E. to W. 12 Miles.
Seller: Page 1 Books - Special Collection Room, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.09 + shipping
Description: INGLESE Rapporto annuale dell'anno 1871 "Annual report of the board of regents of The Smithsonian Institution". Lingua inglese. Il volume potrebbe contenere timbri ed etichette dell'Istituto Veneto, regolarmente acquisito dalla nostra libreria. Coperta rigida, telata ed ingiallita dal tempo presentante segni di usura da scaffale ai margini e tracce di usura da sfregamento ai piatti con lievi abrasioni agli stessi; etichetta precedente alla cuffia inferiore. Pagine godibili anche se ingiallite dal tempo, in particolare ai tagli. Numero pagine 473.
Seller: Biblioteca di Babele, Tarquinia, VT, Italy
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo hardcover. Brown cloth. No jacket. The book has been given a new spine, but what appears to be the original spine has been pasted on top of the new one. Covers have some scuffs, spots, edgewear and corner bumps, light stains and discoloration. Cover hinges a little weak. Some blemishes and discoloration inside covers, and some pages have some small blemishes. Binding is cracked in a few places, but still secure. For their age, the pages have remarkably little yellowing, and no markings or stains. Fold-out illustrations in very good condition. Covers are slightly uneven. Former owner stamp inside front cover.
Seller: MindFair, Oberlin, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: "Published by order of the Navy Department." Usual ex-library features. First blank page and title page have edge tears. The first few pages have a light moisture stain at upper edge. Pages are slightly darkened with age. Marking inside the back cover. Rear hinge is split but holding. Cover is discolored and worn at corners with boards showing through. Spine has been repaired. 345 pages.
Seller: BookOrders, Russell, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Reprinted from the report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1872. Government printing office. tall 8vo. 47 pages. Sections on copper, galena, obsidian, mica, slate, flint, red pipestone, shells, and pearls. Original wrappers. Sewn. Spine browned. Front wrapper half loose. Some small marginal waterstains in top margins of the back three-quarters of the pages. Some browning to perimeter of wrappers. Owner's blindstamp on title page. Text in generally very good condition.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.12 + shipping
Description: Gr.-8vo. 2 Bl., 261, (3) S. Lwdbd d. Zeit (Einbd im unteren Bereich nässespurig, durchgehende Nässespur im oberen weißen Rand). Sprache: Englisch
Seller: Zentralantiquariat Leipzig GmbH, Leipzig, Germany
Price: US$51.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Annual Report, embracing Nebraska 1867; Second annual report, embracing Wyoming 1868; Third annual report, enbracing Colorado and New Mexico. Black cloth cover with faded gilt tile to spine. 261 p.pages. 9 1/4" tall. A few small faint spots of white paint on front cover. Attractive old Bookplate with Armorial bearing on endpaper. Closed edge tear on ffep. No inscriptions.
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Black cloth with copper lettering on spine. 566 pp. Contains diagrams in black and white, some fold out. Light foxing on a few pages. Covers have general wear, spine has a tear and some chipping. Some dampstains on covers. Overall a very nice copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1873. Fair, Hardcover, Faded red cloth. Gilt decoration on front. 345 pages. Ex-library. Heavy foxing on endpapers. Cover faded around edges, with several small stains on front. Top and bottom of spine worn. Scattered foxing to text. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.
Seller: Lincbook, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Washington, 1873. From the library of retired ABAA bookseller, Tom Nicely. Brown cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; edges worn wtih boards exposed at corners; 16mo, 5 3/4" to 6 3/4" tall; no jacket. Interior is clean and unmarked; pages toned, 261 pages.
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tall 4to. 430 pp. + [1] page errata. Plates. Modern blue buckram with gilt-stamped leather spinal label. Contemporary name front endpaper and title page else cloth fine, contents very good plus.
Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$91.60 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: lxxxviii, 1018p. Ex-library. Covers detached.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Price: US$94.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: . . . . 8vo, hardcover. No dj, brown cloth. Vg condition. Removed label residue to inside front cover; contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. 49 pp. text, 8 foldout Plates. Construction, Dc, Engineering, History, Washington,
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black pebbled cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping, no fraying or wear-through; very light soiling. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Previous owner name and date 1873 written on front pastedown (E. G. Lapham). All pages are clean, no foxing, no marks. Clean text block edges. 523 pages. Investigation into fraud involving the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier of America Construction Company in the building of the eastern portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Solid first edition.
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Tall quarto. 49 pages. 8 fold-out black and white architectural lithograph plates. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt title on the front cover. Cloth on front board is soiled with faded spots. Light edge wear to cloth. A few scattered spots to the fold outs. Light creases or folds to the edges of the fold outs. Includes broadside printed document gem clipped to the right front flyleaf. The order is from Brig. Gen. A. A. Humphreys Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army and is dated 1873.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Rebound In Buckram.
Seller: William H. Allen Bookseller, Shillington, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [x], 345 pp. Light scattered foxing, not affecting legibility. Contemporary quarter gilt-stamped polished calf over green marbled paper-backed boards; corners worn, spine edges and top end darkened, head torn. Quite scarce. Very good. Ten papers within dealing with problems of public health: naval hygiene, gunshot wounds, yellow fever, sanitary conditions, diabetes, English hospitals, diseases in Peru. / CONTENTS: PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS IN NAVAL HYGIENE. By Albert Leary Gihon, A. M., M. D. 1-15 Medical Inspector, United States Navy, Member Naval Medical Board; âÂÂ" RESECTION OF HEAD OF FEMUR FOR GUNSHOT WOUND. By W. E. Taylor, M. D. Surgeon, United States Navy; âÂÂ" AN ACCOUNT OF THE YELLOW FEVER which appeared in December, 1866, and prevailed on board the United States Store and Hospital Ship Jamestown, at Panama. By Delavan Bloodgood, A. M., M. D., Surgeon, United States Navy, Surgeon of the Fleet, Asiatic Station ; âÂÂ" AN ACCOUNT OF THE YELLOW FEVER which appeared on board the United States Ship Saratoga in June, 1869. By Lewis S. Pilcher, M. D., Passed Assistant Surgeon, United States Navy; âÂÂ" SANITARY CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES ASIATIC SQUADRON during the period of two years, from April 1, 1868, to March 31, 1870. By Robert T. Maccoun, M. D., Medical Inspector, United States Navy, Surgeon of the Fleet, Asiatic Station; âÂÂ" ON DIABETES. By James McClelland, M. D., Medical Director, United States Navy; âÂÂ" REPORTS UPON CERTAIN ENGLISH HOSPITALS. By Edward Shippen, M. D., Medical Inspector, United States Navy, Surgeon of the Fleet, European Station; âÂÂ" SCHEDULES OF EXAMINATIONS AT NETLEY. ; âÂÂ" REPORTS UPON THE HOSPITALS, CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS, AND PECULIAR DISEASES OF PERU, By John M. Browne, M. D., Medical Inspector, United States Navy, Surgeon of the Fleet, Pacific Station; âÂÂ" EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS IN NAVAL HYGIENE. By Edward D. Payne M. D., Surgeon, United States Navy.
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Switzerland
Price: US$100.23 + shipping
Description: 844 S. Lwd.goldgepr. Rückentitel , Bibex.mit mehreren Stempeln bzw. Besitzvermerken , etwas stärker bestoßen und berieben, Rückstände (Pulver) des 1997 durchgeführten Libertec-Verfahrens durchgehend, sonst sauberes und stabiles , komplettes Exemplar
Seller: Akademische Buchhandlung Antiquariat, Freiberg, Germany
Price: US$117.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873. This is the original 1873 first edition -- NOT print on demand edition or modern reprint. Cover is in Good condition (corner bumps and fraying at the head of the spine). Inner hinges are perfect (NO cracks). Internally Very Good but for minor foxing to a few outer pages House of Representatives Report No. 77, 42nd Congress, 3rd Session. Published here are the findings of the first of three investigations into the sale of stock in the Union Pacific construction subsidiary to members of Congress. House. Rep. Luke Potter Poland (R-Vermont) led the investigation into fraud involving the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the eastern portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Among those implicated in the scandal: Henry Dawes of Massachusetts, Glenni Scofield of Pennsylvania, James Garfield, the future president, William D. Pig Iron Kelley of Pennsylvania, John Bingham of Ohio, and Democrat James Brooks of New York. Bound in the original brown cloth. First Edition. Hardcover. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 523pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Red leather 3/4 binding with red marbled paper over boards. Gold lettering and raised bands on the spine. Contains many pamphlets and annual reports from the years 1873 and 1874 bound into one large volume. A few of these reports include: "Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress Exhibiting the Progress of the Library During the Year Ended December 1, 1872,""Report of the Commission Appointed Under Act of Congress Approved June 1, 1872, To Negotiate with the Shoshone Indians in Wyoming Territory," "Report of Special Agent John G. Ames, in Regard to the Condition of the Mission Indians of California, With Recommendations," "Report of the Warden of the United States Jail For The Year Ending October 31, 1873," and many others. The reports are individually paginated and range from 9 to 120 pages. The binding is strong. The head and foot of the spine are bumped, as are the corners. Covers and edges are rubbed. The pages inside are toned but clean and unmarked.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Government Printing Office; Washington, 1873. Hardcover. Part 1. Book is thick, additional shipping cost may apply. A Good, rebound in brown leather with gilt lettering on spine, new endpapers and pastedowns, binding intact, some age toning to original text block, crease to couple of prelims, clear tape along top edge of title page and verso, bookbinder sticker bottom rear endpaper, fold-out map in rear clear tape along one fold, few soiled specks and small moisture stains to text block edges, rub mark bottom text block corner, top text block edge a bit dusty, without Dust wrapper. A good and overall clean copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]. 852pp., 38 plates in rear. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.
Seller: Lavendier Books, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 8pp, tables. Original printed blue wrappers [light foxing and age toning, light wear], stitched. Text lightly toned, some crimping and chipping of corners. Good+. Assistant Adjutant General Thomas M. Vincent reports on the business of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Thirteen offices are now open, including newly established ones at Fort Monroe, Virginia; Forts Macon and Johnston, North Carolina; Charleston, and Savannah. Many claimants have moved since filing their claims, creating difficulties in making payments. Other snafus are noted. Capt. James McMillan, Chief Disbursing Officer, submits three pages of tables showing receipts and disbursements of "Pay, Bounty, Etc. due Colored Soldiers or their Heirs" for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873. OCLC records only a few copies, under several accession numbers.
Seller: David M. Lesser, ABAA, Woodbridge, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$139.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1873 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine/No Dust Jacket Washington, D C, 1873, 1st edition, Government Printing Office, near fine condition, minor wear to corners, Credit Mobilier Bribery, Railroad History, Law
Seller: Transmutation Publishing, Corning, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$139.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1873 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine/No Dust Jacket Washington, D C, 1873, 1st edition, Government Printing Office, near fine condition, minor wear to corners, Credit Mobilier Bribery, Railroad History
Seller: Transmutation Publishing, Corning, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 28.5 x 22 cm, x, 262 pp., PREFATORY NOTE. by F. V. Hayden, PART I, table of contents, letter to the geologist in charge, authorities, introduction, addenda and errata, description of the plates, glossary, index EX LIBRARY Franklin Institute Library "withdrawn", book plate on front fixed endpaper and a very few rubber stamps
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Original cloth. Very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. 154p., 10 pl., some folding. Bound in publisher's brown cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Embossed Marine Hospital Service Seal on front cover. Good binding and cover. Chipping and loss to head and tail of spine. Wear to extremities. Clean, unmarked pages with tanning. Very scattered foxing. Ships daily.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 844pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Green leather, with the spine gilt stamped in six compartments, and decorative gilt floral designs and ruled borders on the covers. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins. Yellow endpapers. The extremities are rubbed, the leather is a bit chipped at the head of the spine, and the title page is taped. This was once in the holdings of the Library of Congress, but has now been ink stamped "cancelled" on the title page. The pages and plates have light tide marks in the margins, with the tide marks occasionally bleeding into the text and plates, and becoming larger and more pronounced at the rear. The plate at p. 51 (Figure 10) has a couple of small closed tears in the edges. *Missing 2 maps (Map of Shoshone Geysers; Map of the Sources of Snake River). Else all plates present. Part I. Report of F. V. Hayden. Part II. Special Reports on Geology and Paleontology. Part III: Special Reports on Zoology and Botany. A major work on the exploration of the West. Hayden and his team were some of the first European-Americans (outside a handful of trappers) to document one of the true natural wonders of the world. This represents the first coordinated effort to explore what came to be known as Yellowstone. Includes the following Reports: Report of A. C. Peale; Report of Frank H. Bradley, Geologist of the Snake River Division; Physical Geography and Agricultural Resources of Minnesota, Dakota, and Nebraska. By Cyrus Thomas, PH. D.; Lignitic Formation and Fossil Flora. By Leo. Lesquereux; Paleontological Report by F. B. Meek; Report of a Geological Reconnaissance Along the Union Pacific Railroad. By H. M. Bannister; On the Extinct Vertebrata of the Eucene of Wyoming Observed By the Expedition of 1872, With Notes on the Geology. By Edward D. Cope, A. M.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Part I. Report On the Condition of the Sea Fisheries. With Supplementry Papers. xlvii, 852pp, 40 full page plates with 600 text figures of acquatic life and Map of Cape Cod Bay. Fraying on bottom edge of corner font board with somw staining on same. Hinges tight and firm. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles, san diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 23 x 14.5 cm, 1203-1210 pp., [ Schmeckebier p. 38], disbound and pages now loose, clean without faults First report on the Great Diamond Hoax!
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Original flexible maroon cloth with gilt title; octavo; 90 pp. 7 full-page Woodburytype sepia-toned plates of lighthouses, tissue guards Report of the Board (founded in 1851) on its operations regarding buoys, lighthouses, light ships, etc. on the coasts of the United States. Plates depict newly-constructed lighthouses, including the Steam Fog Signal The Syren; Day Beacon on Seaflower Reef, Long Island Sound; Craighill's Channel, Range or Leading Lights, Chesapeake Bay - the High Light; Craighill's Channel, Range or Leading Lights, Chesapeake Bay - the Low Light; Sea Coast Light at Currituck Beach, North Carolina; Lake Coast Light-House at Thirty Mile Point, Lake Ontario, NY; Lake Coast Light-House at Grosse Pointe, Lake Michigan, Illinois. Woodburytypes (a photo-mechanical process) printed by Am. Photo-Relief Printing Co., Phila.); Light-House at Mare Island, Cal. Scarce. OCLC/Worldcat locates only 5 copies. Covers moderately worn, ex-libris bookplate of the Columbia Historical Society (withdrawn) on front free endpaper, 2 plates with ink CHS stamp to bottom margin (not in image) else very good
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "1873" in yellow ink on spine; small piece torn from blank margin of pages 13/14; small dampstain in blank lower corners of a few leaves at front. Nineteen plates.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original printed wraps, 30 pages, map. Contains Felix R. Brunot's report of his three days of negotiations with the Shoshones with Chief Washakie as the Indian's spokesman. The government want the Indians to sale part of their reservation to open the land up for white settlers (nothing new there). They agreed to sale the land for $25,000, with the chief getting $500 a year for five years. Washakie wanted cattle and houses for his people as they were poor and afraid of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. Included is a list of the Shoshone men. Brunot give details of his trip and description of the land. General Brisbin helped with the negotiations. An Indian attack occurred after the treaty was finalized.
Seller: Old West Books (ABAA), St. Robert, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 305 x 244 mm. 4to. [iv], 430, [1 errata, 1 blank] pp. 19 plates (18 numbered and 1 un-numbered), tables, 3 figs., index; occasional light foxing. Modern maroon cloth, gilt spine, new end-leaves. Very good. Beginning at page 202, J. Harry Thompson gives a remarkable case report of a woman who had been admitted more than once to the Columbia Hospital for Women suffering from severe pain in the supra-pubic region, with continuous urine dribbling. Having discovered a foreign object in the bladder, Thompson removed it by an incision made in the viscous through the vagina with the patient under etherization. The foreign object turned out to be an iron handle of a crochet-needle, around which had been wound and knotted hempen cord. The crochet-needle was encrusted with deposits of urine salts. The un-numbered plate gives an image of the crotchet-needle. Plates include illustrations of surgical procedures and instruments. Contributors include Samuel C. Busey on the diseases of children; D. Webster Prentiss on diseases of the eye and ear; and F. A. Ashford on the diseases of women. Rutkow GY20.1
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Switzerland
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. [5], 4-628 pp. Brown cloth with borders in blind on each board, with the binder's stamp (U.S. Government Bindery) on the rear board, gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with two fold-out maps and a third folding map laid in the rear of the volume. With reports of the discoveries made by the U.S.S. Polaris, taken from the surviving members of the expedition. Naval History and Heritage Command, "Periwinkle". The Periwinkle was constructed in 1864 and saw action in the U.S. Civil War. After the war, the ship was selected for use by Charles F. Hall on his expedition to the Arctic in 1871. Sadly, on her return voyage the ship was crushed by icebergs. A portion of the crew was left stranded on floating ice but was later rescued by British sailors. The folding maps depict the knowledge that the Polaris survivors brought back. Light rubbing to the extremities, one of the folding maps with a subtle tear, the largest map in the rear with three discreet tears on its folds.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Large thick report in gray stiff paper covers printed in black, page edges untrimmed uncut and unopened, all 37 plates present BUT the text begins on page 17, so the first signature[s] missing, including the title and introductory pages, front cover detached with the first 2 blank leaves, rear cover still attached
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$423.21 + shipping
Description: Gr.-4°. [1] Bl., 358 S., [37 Tafeln mit je einem Text-Beiblatt]. OBroschur, unbeschnitten, teils unaufgeschnitten. Block angebrochen, einige Bll. fast lose. Umschlag etwas fleckig. Teils etwas stockfleckig. Im Rand etwas angestaubt, etwas angerändert. Ein Text-Beiblatt doppelt beigebunden. (=Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories I). Nissen, ZBI 2430. DSB VIII.169: "A descriptive scientist of unusual range", vorliegendes Werk S. 170. Poggendorff III.793. Sprache: Englisch 2,260 gr.
Seller: Antiquariat Schmetz am Dom, Aachen, Germany
Price: US$501.17 + shipping
Description: Marmorierter Halbleinenband, mit 37 lithographirten Tafeln, Part I. Contributions to the Extinct Vertebrate Fauna of the Western Territories by Prof. Joseph Leidy, 358 Seiten und 37 Tafeln mit Text, 23 x 29 cm, schönes Exemplar.
Seller: Libretto Antiquariat & mundart.ch, Langnau i.E., BE, Switzerland
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 30.5 x 23.5 cm, 358 pp., 37 plates each with an unnumbered leaf of text versos blank, [Schmeckebier p 20], original brown cloth binding with gilt lettering partially detached, internally very good. Ex Library with rubber stamps on captions to plates but not on plates, internally very good.
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: United States Geological Survey of the Territories (Hayden) Volume I of the Final Reports 30.5 x 23.5 cm, 358 pp., 37 plates each with an unnumbered leaf of text versos blank, [Schmeckebier p 20], original printed paper wrappers mostly intact except for spine, internally very good. Surprisingly good. Printed donation slip from Hayden.
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.