Author: Agassiz, A.
Title: A contribution to American thalassography: Three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer Blake, in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880.
Description: Boston, MA, Houghton, Mifflin, 1888. Two volumes in two. Large 8vo (25.2 x 16.7 cm). 434 pp.[xxii, 314; 220]; over 550 fine - often large - text illustrations; one folded map. Original blue linen with gilt title on the spines. Top edges gilt. = A well-told and profusely illustrated narrative about one of the major American marine dredging cruises of all time. The set of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020). Map in rear pocket present. A few leaves uncut. Some wear to spine ends, and remnant of library numbering on the spine foot of both volumes; inner rear joint of second volume partly split, otherwise a very good, clean and unmarked set.

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