Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year 1875

Joseph Henry, Sec'ty Smithsonian Institution

Verlag: Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1876

Beschreibung

Very Good hardcover, no DJ. Dark green sand-grain cloth over boards, gilt stamped titles on spine; Clean, square covers and spine; tightly bound; owner bookplate on front paste down; clean interior with slight general age darkening. Appended articles include: Eulogy on Alexander Volta; The probable future of the human race, by Alphonse de Candolle; Report on the transactions of the Society of Physics and Natural History of Geneva by M.A. de Candolle; The past and future of geology: An inaugural lecture, by Joseph Prestwich; Report of the special committee for the consideration of the memoir of Mr. Hofrath G. Wex, upon the diminution of the water of rivers and streams; The refraction of sound, by William B. Taylor; On the organization of local scientific societies, by Joseph Henry; International code of symbols for charts of pre-historic archeology; Characteristics pertaining to ancient man in Michigan, by Henry Gillman; The Stone Age in New Jersey, by C.C. Abbott. 8vo, 422 pp plus many pages of plates; index; illustrated. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 19408

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the...

Verlag: Washington, DC: Government Printing Office

Erscheinungsdatum: 1876

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: 1st Edition