First Second Third Annual Reports, First Edition (5 results)

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Three Volumes, Fine, Small Pencil Name Of Petroleum Geologist Irvine Stewart On Each Front Cover.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1881-1884. 3 volumes in-4 (29,5 x 21 cm), xxxv-603pp., xxxvii-477pp., lxxiv-606pp., with numerous plates, maps (many folding and colored), charts and illustrations in the text, publisher's cloth bindings, spines lettered in gilt, indian portrait gilt on the first board, lightly rubbed, Complete set of the first three annual reports (1879-80,1880-81, 1881-82) of the Bureau of Ethnology under the direction of John Wesley Powell, explorer of the Colorado River and founder of the systematic study of American anthropology within the Smithsonian Institution. These monumental publications established the foundations of modern ethnography in North America, combining linguistic, archaeological, and anthropological surveys. An attractive, well-preserved set of these foundational Smithsonian volumes, Among the most important papers are H. C. Yarrow, A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians (funerary rites); Garrick Mallery, Sign language among North American Indians (gesture speech); Frank Hamilton Cushing, Zuñi Fetiches (Zuni ethnography); Erminnie A. Smith, Myths of the Iroquois (Iroquois mythology); and J. Owen Dorsey, Omaha Sociology (Omaha social organization) and others, with extensive illustrations of artifacts and ceremonial objects.Together they constitute one of the most important early corpuses on Native American cultures and material history Ensemble des trois premiers Rapports annuels du Bureau of Ethnology dirigé par John Wesley Powell (Washington, GPO, 1881-1884), grands in-4 richement illustrés (planches, cartes dépliantes, figures), pierre angulaire de l'ethnologie nord-américaine (linguistique, mythologie, archéologie, muséographie). Parmi les contributions majeures figurent H. C. Yarrow, A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians (rites funéraires), Garrick Mallery, Sign language among North American Indians (langage gestuel), Frank Hamilton Cushing, Zuñi Fetiches (ethnographie zuñi), Erminnie A. Smith, Myths of the Iroquois (corpus mythologique iroquois), et J. Owen Dorsey, Omaha Sociology (organisation sociale omaha). M9-C.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, octavo, 91 p., 118 p., 252 p., and 28 p. respectively. ***CONTENT: Henry Darwin Rogers (1808-1866) was a celebrated American geologist, chemist, and educator, and regarded as the foremost structural geologist of his time (Merrill). In 1836, he was appointed State Geologist of Pennsylvania; Rogers' reputation chiefly rests on his work done in this connection. Save for a handful of Legislative and mining reports, Rogers' six "Annual Reports" are the earliest detailed geological field surveys of the State, and they are scarce. The four reports offered herein deal with nearly all aspects of geology: areal studies of various regions and counties; scenery and topography; location, extent, and descriptions of rock formations; structural geology (dip of strata, folds, faults, etc.); mineral resources of the strata, with attention to economic commodities (coal, iron ores, building stones, agricultural materials, etc.); soils; fossil-bearing strata; and more. ***CONDITION: The four reports are complete and in Good to Very Good condition. All are firmly bound in the original stitched bindings and are without wraps. The text pages are typically fresh, clean, and bright; the pages of the fourth report show light, occasional foxing, and the page fore-edges are bumped. The text in the sixth report is clean but mildly toned. Two reports show previous ownership stamps on the title page, the other two show no past ownership indications. This is a sound, useful collection of rare early American geology reports. Nickles 886. Prime 40. Ward and Carozzi 1746. International shipping will be extra, but only at my cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. First Edition. A bound volume containing a collection of ten publications relating to the Western Rail-Road Corporation from the incorporation in 1836 to 1840. The First Annual Report from 1836 is included twice. Bound in contemporary (original) three quarter leather, which is moderately to heavily worn, with the front board nearly detached. There is minor to moderate foxing, and the final half of the text is lightly stained at the top corner. The 1836-37 Reports of the Engineers is complete with two fold-out maps which were printed on very thin onion-skin paper. These two maps have been detached, and are misfolded, with minor tearing, as well as some foxing. A ready-made collection of the founding documents of this railroad company, which starts in Boston winding its way across the state where it enters New York State at West Stockbridge. Size: Octavo (8vo). Book.

Condition: Very Good. Brooklyn: Printed for the Association, 1859-1866. First Editions. Five volumes; octavo (ca. 23cm.); all bound in wrappers printed within decorative border. Publication sequence includes the First-Fourth reports (1859-1862) and the Eighth report (1866). First report a bit chipped along extremities and spine crudely reinforced with old tape repair; general dust-soil and uneven damp staining to extremities of most volumes, contemporary manuscript note at head of Second report upper cover, else a Very Good collection overall. Contents include the Association's charter as delineated in the first annual report; the subsequent reports providing a list of officers and a short description of the year's budget and acquisitions. In 1860 the Library acquired 2860 volumes, including "Watts' Bibliotheca Britannica" and "Pinkerton's Collection of Voyages and Travels," in 17 volumes, though by the start of the Civil War the rate of accrual had drastically slowed.