The Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology
by M.F. Maury
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- Hardcover
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Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1875-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Harper Brothers Publishers, New York 1875. Hardcover, 474 pp, plus 11 fold-out plates at the back. This is the Eighth Edition, Revised and greatly enlarged, published in 1875. In acceptable to condition. Brown cloth covered boards with blind-stamped border on covers and gold lettering on spine. Nicking chipping and fraying to cloth along edges, corners and spine with the underlying boards exposed in several spots. Moderate to heavy overall scuffing aging and soiling to covers as well. Front cover is all but separated from book and is hanging on by a few threads. Spine is cracked in several places and dedication page is separated and laid-in with a few other pages at the front starting to separate as well. Blank endpapers (the pages after the plages) at back have been cut out. Several pages have light margin scribbles in pencil. Moderate overall aging, spotting and soiling to pages as well. This is a reading copy only, but NOT a facsmile copy. NOT Ex-Library. [From Introduction to Eighth edition] THE great activity in our field of research, the increasing number of laborers in it, and the rich gleanings from it, have made necessary a recast of this work. With new lights and better materials, I have not hesitated to tear down and build up anew whenever they seemed to require it. The results that are embodied in Plate I alone of this edition would, had the data for it been collected by a force specially employed for the purpose, have demanded constant occupation from a fleet of ten sail for more than one hundred years. The co-ordinating of these observations after they were made, and the bringing of them to the present condensed form, has involved a vast amount of additional labor. Officers here have been engaged upon the work for many years. This patient labor has been rewarded with the discovery of laws and the development of truths of great value in navigation and very precious to science.
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- Epilonian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology
- Author
- M.F. Maury
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Date Published
- 1875-01-01
- Keywords
- Geography, Oceanography
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