Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers

Pub. 1902, presumed first ed.--earlier copyrights on verso of t.p. acknowledge previously pub. portions; 171 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong paper only mildly age-toned; printed label on front paste reads "LIBRARY OF HARRY S. ZIMMERMAN No. 460 Price sn;" frontis. engraving of Christopher Columbus has tissue guard; front gutter cracked but binding firm; in absence of d.j. unfaded red boards with bright gilt lettering on spine and stamped colophon on front have lightly bumped corners and slight rubbing at crown and foot of spine. 4" x 6".yh T.O.C.: "Columbus Discovers America" by Justin Winsor; "Arrival at the Pacific Ocean, 1805" by Lewis and Clarke; "The Sources of the Mississippi, 1806" by Zebulon M. Pike; "Manila in 1842" by Charles Wilkes; "The Ascent of Mount Tyndall" by Clarence King; "The Grand Canon of the Colorado is Explored" by John Wesley Powell.