[Rarebooks] FS: The first text of modern oceanography. NY: 1855

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(SCIENCE) Maury, Matthew Fontaine. THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEA. New 
York: Harper & Brothers. 1855. First edition. Lg. 8vo. 274pp. Illustrated with 4 
text plates (1 a map) and 8 folding plates (6 are maps). Cont. green cloth 
stamped in gilt, somewhat soiled & worn, but still sound. Written across the 
title in ink is “New York Times” (a reference copy? – 4 pages are marked up with 
editor’s notations). Endpapers & pastedowns discolored (as usual).     $375.00 
(trade discount allowed)

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