Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1897; Report of the U. S. National Museum Part 1 : Papers Describing and Illustrating Collections in the US National Museum

Washington: United States Government Printing Office. Good+. 1899. Hardcover. Lithographs, Gravure and Half-tone plates; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1021 pages; 1899 United States Government Printing Office. Part I of the two part annual report. 1021 pages. Of interest largely for the wide range of scholarly papers drawing on the collections of the Smitsonian. See list of papers below. A very fat volume, soundly bound in original cloth. Cloth dulled and dust soiled but the binding is sound and the contents clean. Profusely illustrated with a range of plates produced in various forms, including lithographs, gravure, half-tone and woodcut. Binding a little shaken as expected; moderate dark spill stain top edge does not affect the flat page surface. Contents include: Arrowpoints, spearheads and knives of prehistoric times / Thomas Wilson -- Catalogue of the series illustrating the properties of minerals / Wirt Tassin -- Classification of the mineral collections in the U. S. National Museum / Wirt Tassin -- Pipes and smoking customs of the American aborigines, based on material in the U. S. National Museum / Joseph D. McGuire -- Recent Foraminifera / James M. Flint -- Te Pito Te Henua, known as Rapa Nui; commonly called Easter Island, South Pacific Ocean / George H. Cooke T-- he man's knife among the North American Indians / Otis Tufton Mason. Overall condition. G+. ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. .