Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
April 1872
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/5
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    American Periodicals: United States Calendar. 4226 Navrionan CatEenpar, and Annals of the UNITED STATES, by Peter Force, for the years 1820 to 1836, being Vols. I-XIV, 14 vols. 12mo. plates, half bound, 28s Washington, 1820-36 Full of useful information of every kind relating to the country. United States Government Publications. 4227 COAST SURVEY: Rervorr of the Superintendent (Professor Bacur) shewing the progress of the Survey in 1855-58, and 1862, 5 vols. stout 4to. with 289 large folded plates and maps of Geology, Rivers, , Streams, Tides, etc. cloth, 28s Washington, 1856-64 4228 COLORADO.—Ivzs’ Report upon the Colorado River of the West, ex- plored in 1857-58, 4to. with 41 woodcuts and 29 maps and plates of Views, with coloured portraits of Indians, and Natural History, cloth, 14s 1b. 1861 The portion of the volume devoted to Paleontology is illustrated with plates of . fossils. 4229 COMMERCIAL RELATIONS: Report on the Commercial Relations of the United States with all foreign Nations, by E. Fraae, Super- tendent, 5 vols. dito. four in cloth and one hf. mor. 36s ib. 1856-59 The fourth and fifth volumes contain Consular Returns and other official com- munications from foreign agents of the Government. Every volume is carefully indexed, 4230 EMORY’S Report of the United States and Mexican Bounpary SuRVEY, 3 vols. stout 4to. nwmerous plates and maps, including also a complete Natural History of those regions, the plates of Costume and Ornithology beautifully coLOURED, calf, £2. 16s tb. 1857-59 The plates of Natural History alone number 266: viz. Brrps, 25, finely coloured; Mammals, 27; Reptiles, 41; Fishes, 41; Botany, 61; Cetacew, 75; Paleon- tology, 21. 4231 ——-— the same, Vol. I, containing all the Views, the coloured plates of Costume, and the Paleontology, stout 4to. cloth, 15s tb. 1857 4232 MISSISSIPPI EXPEDITION: Reports of Explorations and Surveys to ascertain the most practical and economical Route for the Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, made under the direction of the Secretary of War in 1858-54, according to Acts of Congress, of March 3, 1854, May 381, 1854, and August 5, 1854, 12 vols. in 13 (the last volume being in two), thick 4to. maps and about a thousand plates, some COLOURED, tlustrating the Botany, GEroLoey, OrnitHoLoey, IcurHyoLtogy, CostuME and implements of the natives, Sc. of the countries surveyed, calf, £7. 15s tb. 1855-60 4233 ———— the same, Vols. I—X, and the second book of Vol. XII, which is often wanting to a set-—together 11 vols. ten in cloth and one in calf, £5. ; 4b, 1855-60 Contents :— ETHNOGRAPHY, 10 plates ; PuHrLoLoey, containing Vocabularies of North American Language; Botany, plates; GroLocy, many plates, some coloured ; Brrps, finely coloured plates of the different species; Fis, plates ; Repr- TILES, plates ; MAMMALIA, plates ; and a large number of coloured views. This fine work reflects the highest credit on the United States Government. The later volumes are scarce in Europe. 4234 NEW YORK. Documents relative to the Cotontan H1story of the State of New York, 1663-1778, procured in Holland, England and France, by J. R. Brodhead, Agent, edited by E. B. O’Catztagnan,
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