FOR SCIENCE AND NATIONAL GLORY - THE SPANISH SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO AMERICA, 1862-1866
by Miller, Robert Ryal
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- very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) closed tear on dj
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Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) closed tear on dj. B&W illustrations. Four centuries after Columbus, Isabella II sent a scientific expedition to that part of the New World still ruled by Spain. Seven naturalists and a photographer made up her Scientific Commission of the Pacific, 1862-1866, but their almost phenomenal accomplishments were overlooked by history in the turmoil of the Spainsih colonial wars going on in Latin America at the time. 194pp.
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- Ray Boas, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- FOR SCIENCE AND NATIONAL GLORY - THE SPANISH SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO AMERICA, 1862-1866
- Author
- Miller, Robert Ryal
- Illustrator
- B&W illustrations
- Format/Binding
- HC
- Book Condition
- Used - very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) closed tear on dj
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Place of Publication
- Norman, OK
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- science, nature
- Bookseller catalogs
- SOUTH AMERICA;
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