TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1856.
by Smithsonian Institution
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-/No Jacket
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Washington: Cornelius Wendell, Printer, 1856. House of Representatives, 34th Congress, 1st session, Mis. Doc. No. 113. Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Smithsonian Institution, up to January 1, 1856 and the proceedings of the Board up to March 22, 1856. Lists Meterological Observers by state & county and Lectures delivered at the Institution: Marine Algae, Natural History as applied to Farming & Gardening and Meteoric Stones. Tables of Meteorological Observations during the years 1853-1855. 438 pp. Index. Embossed boards dull with edges worn & bumped. Spine faded and edges frayed, missing sm. piece at foot and back hinge.ex-lib. Foxing on endpapers.. Cloth. Good-/No Jacket. Illus. by Tables, Figures. 8vo. Smithsonian Institute.
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- Seller
- Bee Creek Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000641
- Title
- TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1856.
- Author
- Smithsonian Institution
- Illustrator
- Tables, Figures
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Cornelius Wendell, Printer
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1856
- Keywords
- Smithsonian Institute, Meteorology, 1800s, Government Doc.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Meteorology; Farms/Farming; Smithsonian Institute; Marine Life;
- Size
- 8vo
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