[Rarebooks] FS; MAURY'S CLASSIC ON THE SEA

[Norman Kane]

WE CAN SUPPLY:

MAURY, M[ATTHEW] F.    THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEA.   N. Y.: Harper, 
1855.  First edition.  Original  cloth with gilt vignette on front cover, 
slight wear at spine extremities & corners, end papers oxidized.  Small 
bookseller stamp of  Taylor & Maury, booksellers, Wash., D.C., small label 
of the Northern Transcontinental Survey (showing a map of the U.S.) & end 
paper stamp of the Northern Pacific Railway Library.  Also with the 
signature of Gouveneur Kemble Warren, Civil War General, Chief 
Topographical Engineer of the Army of the Potomac, member of the APS, 
&c.  12 illustrations: maps, diagrams, & charts as listed.  ("The first 
textbook of modern oceanography" - DAB.  Maury, a founder of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, was a Confederate naval officer 
& agent during the Civil War.)
$275.00


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