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Book by Herndon, Lt. Wm. Lewis & Gibbon, Lardner; Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon.
Herndon, Lt. Wm. Lewis & Gibbon, Lardner; Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon made under Direction of the Navy Department, by William Lewis Hendon and Lardner Gibbon. Part I by Lieut. Hendon. Part II by Lieut. L. Gibbon. 32rd. Congress, House and Senate Documents, Washington, 1853. Quarto, 2 text volumes. Vol. 1, text, pp. iv, 417, frontispiece and 15 additional plates, with 3 folded maps bound in. Vol. 2, text, pp. x, 339, frontispiece and 35 additional plates, with 2 folded maps bound in.

Set is in original Congressional calf with gilt titles, moderate foxing which is common with this work, light water stain to outer margin of first third of volume 2, bindings tight and clean. The maps contained in the two separate atlas volumes of the House and Senate issue were bound into the Congressional calf issue. In good condition.

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Book by Herndon, Lt. Wm. Lewis & Gibbon, Lardner; Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon. 1854
Herndon, Lt. Wm. Lewis & Gibbon, Lardner; Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon made under Direction of the Navy Department, by William Lewis Hendon and Lardner Gibbon. Part I by Lieut. Hendon. Part II by Lieut. L. Gibbon. 33rd. Congress, HED #33, Washington, 1854. Quarto, 2 text volumes and 2 atlas volumes. Vol. 1, text, pp. iv, 417, frontispiece and 15 additional plates, atlas with 3 folded maps. Vol. 2, text, pp. x, 339, frontispiece and 35 additional plates, atlas with 2 folded maps.

Set is in original cloth with gilt titles, light foxing which is common with this work, bindings tight and clean, maps with archival repairs on verso of folds, very good. Rare with both atlas volumes present.
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Book by Heron de Villefosse, Antoine Marie (Baron); De La Richesse Minerale. Considerations sur les mines...1810-1819
Heron de Villefosse, Antoine Marie (Baron); De La Richesse Minerale. Considerations sur les mines, usines et salines dews differens etats, et particulierement du Royaume de Westphalie, pris pour terme de comparison. Partie premiere and atlas. Paris, 1810-1819.

This is the first volume and rare atlas. The set is in a modern tooled calf with gilt titles. Bindings are very clean, text volume with x-lib. stamps verso of titles. In very good condition.
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Book by Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan; Dissertation sur la Glace...1749
Dortous de Mairan, Jean-Jacques; Dissertation sur la Glace, ou explication physique de la formation de la Glace, & de ces divers phénomèns. Paris, l'Imprimerie Royale, 1749. Octavo, pp. xxix, (11), 384, xx, with engraved frontispiece and 5 folded engraved plates.

The volume is complete and in contemporary full tree calf; gilt spine panels, marbled end-sheets, red edges. Light scuffing to boards and corners, text bright and clean, very good.
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Book by Johnston, Brevet Lt. Col. Joseph E., et.al.; Reports of the Secretary of War, with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso
Johnston, Brevet Lt. Col. Joseph E., et.al.; Reports of the Secretary of War, with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso . . . Also the Report of Capt. R. B. Marcy's Route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe; and the Report of Liet. J. H. Simpson on an Expedition into the Navajo Country; and the Report of Lt. W. H. C. Whitig's Reconnaissances of the Western Frontier of Texas. Washington, 31st Congress, 1st Sess., SED #64, 1850. Quarto, pp. 250, 72 plates (some colored, (#'s 2, 21 & 39 never issued)), 2 folded maps.
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The volume is complete and in a later half calf and cloth with raised spine bands, gilt titles, maps expertly re-backed. In very good condition.
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Book by Killebrew, J. B.; Mineral and Agricultural Resources of the Portion of Tennessee along the Cincinnati Southern and Knoxville & Ohio railroads, including the country between the two.
Killebrew, J. B.; Mineral and Agricultural Resources of the Portion of Tennessee along the Cincinnati Southern and Knoxville & Ohio railroads, including the country between the two. Nashville, Tavel, Eastman & Howell, 1876. Octavo, pp. 145, folded frontispiece map, two additional folded maps, numerous text illustrations.
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In later cloth and marbled boards folder with original tan title wraps bound in, x-lib with Harvard bookplate on paste down and embossed stamp on title page, deaccession stamp verso of title wrap, bequeathed to Harvard in 1884 by Prof. Heorsford, text, maps exceptionally clean.
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Book by Killebrew, J. B.; Report on the Ocoee and Hiwassee Mineral District, Tennessee. Nashville, Eastman & Howell, 1876.
Killebrew, J. B.; Report on the Ocoee and Hiwassee Mineral District, Tennessee. Nashville, Eastman & Howell, 1876. Octavo, pp. 67, 4 folded maps.

 In later cloth and marbled boards folder with original tan title wraps bound in, x-lib with Harvard bookplate on paste down and embossed stamp on title page, deaccession stamp verso of title wrap, bequeathed to Harvard in 1884 by Prof. Heorsford, text, maps exceptionally clean.
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Book by King, Clarence; Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, 1st edition. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston 1872.
King, Clarence; Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. 1st edition. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston 1872. Octavo, pp. 2, 292.

The text is complete and in the original dark red cloth with gilt spine titles, very minor repair to upper spine edge with spine lightly sun faded, owner's small book plate on first leaf, near fine.
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