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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Contents continued from above: . discussion of the magnetic and meteorological observations made at the girard college observatory, philadelphia, in 1840-1845. Part 1. investigation of the 11 year period in the amplitude of the solar-diurnal variation and of the disturbances of the magnetic declination -- meteorological observations in the arctic seas, made during the 2nd grinnell expedition in search of sir john franklin, in 1853-1855, at van rensselaer harbor, and other points of the west coast of greenland -- the coleoptera of kansas and eastern new mexico -- observations on terrestrial magnetism in mexico, conducted under the direction of baron von muller, with notes and illustrations of an examination of the volcano popocatepetl and its vicinity -- on certain storms in europe and america, december 1836. Top of title page has former ownership stamp of anthropologist George Grant MacCurdy; top corner of free front endpaper has stamp indicating that this volume was not accessioned by a Harvard University library; binding has wear and soil; corners bumped; back cover has a dent at center of top edge, fore edge, and bottom edge; a large acidic sheet (such as a newspaper clipping) was likely laid in loosely at front and back for a very long time, as each free endpaper has a large rectangular browned area; interior has foxing; the bottom inner margins of about half of the volume have an old 4 x 2 1/2 inch damp stain, not affecting text (aside from impinging slightly on captions of plates); text block has interior hinge cracks, holding. Paginated viii, 132 p., 5 egg plates -- eclipse frontispiece, 18 p. -- 20 p. -- [6], 112 p. -- color entomological frontispiece map, 58 p., 2 beetle plates -- volcano map, 84 p. -- 26 p., 13 color meteorological charts. Large, heavy volume, with interesting provenance. Size: 12 3/4 x 10 inches. [otob: 55L].

Original 1/2 green leather worn and rubbed at extremities. Internally very good. 58 pp. (interleaved with blanks) colored frontispiece map 2 uncolored lithographic plates of specimens. A treatise published by the Smithsonian Institution as one of the Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge series on the weevils of the lower mid-west adapted from a section in the Railroad Surveys. Printed by Collins in Philadelphia. Meisel p. 36. worn and rubbed at extremities. Internally very good. 58 pp. (interleaved with blanks) colored frontispiece map 2 uncolored lithographic plates of specimens. A treatise published by the Smithsonian Institution as one of the Smithsonian Contribution to Knowledge series on the weevils of the lower mid-west adapted from a section in the Railroad Surveys. Printed by Collins in Philadelphia. Meisel p. 36.