Sale 681: Americana, Travel, Cartography, the Mexican War - with Material from the Warren Heckrotte Collection (#681) 08/22/2019 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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Lot 21 of 522:
Meetings Geologists and Naturalists, 1840 and 1841  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$120
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Title:
Reports of the First, Second, and Third Meetings of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, at Philadelphia, in 1840 and 1841, and at Boston, in 1842. Embracing Its Proceedings and Transactions

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Place:
Boston

Publisher:
Gould, Kendall & Lincoln

Date:
1843

Description:

viii, [9]-544 pp. Plates I-III and V-XXI [all published]. 25x15 cm (9¾x6") original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt.

Plate IV is described on p. 93 and p. 541, but was never published in this work. It may be found in the American Journal of Science, vol XLI. Plates VII and IX are printed on the same leaf. Presentation bookplate to the Portland Society of Natural History by bequest of William Wood, M.D. 1899.


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Condition:
Staining and rubbing to cloth; dampstain to blank leaves at front; very good.


 
Item number:
303411
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