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Published by Government Printing Office, Washington [DC], 1879
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Ex-Library. First edition. 4to. [9], ii-l, [2], 3-644 pp. Green cloth with a gilt decoration on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece, several folding plates and maps, and several heliotype plates (with Indigenous Americans depicted on a few of the heliotype plates). The textblock also contains in-text wood engravings. Edited under the orders of the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, by Prof. J.E. Nourse, U.S.N. U.S. Naval Observatory, 1879. A reading copy. Rebacked with the original spine laid down. With a few library markings from the Hudson Bay Company, this volume lacks its title page and instead has a facsimile title page in its place. Also lacks the folding map normally found in the volume's rear pocket.
Published by Government Printing OFfice, Washington, 1879
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
l, 644 pp. Maps, plates from photograph, portraits, including large folding map in pocket at rear. Folio, publisher's green gilt cloth. First edition. Hinges neatly reinforced with tissue; blank leaf at rear torn; cloth rubbed at corners and bottom of spine.