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MAURY, Matthew Fontaine (1806-1873). The Physical Geography of the Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855.
8o. Four illustrations in text [labelled "Plates" I-IV] and 8 lithographed folding plates [labelled Plates V-XII]. Original plum cloth, gilt-lettered spine, gilt motif on front cover (spine and edges slightly darkened, endpapers discolored); blue quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: S.P. Langley (notation on front free endpaper); Lloyd Arnold Brown (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. "The first major textbook of modern oceanography" (Grolier/Horblit 71); Grolier American, p. 21; Norman 1463.
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FIRST EDITION. "The first major textbook of modern oceanography" (Grolier/Horblit 71); Grolier American, p. 21; Norman 1463.