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Title: Pacific, The --. Russian Scientific Investigations
Description: Leningrad: Academy of Sciences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1926. 4to, 27cm. Pp. [iv],190,[2], 11 portrait plates, 4 other pls., 2 fold. maps, 6 figs., 1 fold. letterpress table, bibl. to each chapter. New boards lined with blue vergé paper, uncut, printed title label on backstrip. Very good. - Divided into 10 chapters, each written by a specialist and tracing the historical development of: Discoveries, Cartography, Geology, Seismology, Terrestrial magnetism, Oceanography, Meteorology, Botany, Zoology, and Ethnography. - Scarce original printing; a facsimile reprint appeared in 1969 on occasion of the Third Pan-Pacific Congress.

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