North America
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Wachsmuth, C. and F. Springer
The North American Crinoidea Camerata. In two volumes with eighty-three plates.
Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 1897. In three volumes. Large 4to (two text volumes) and folio atlas (34.7 x 27.0 cm). ii, 359, [359-837 pp. 83 very fine tinted lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Uniform contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands and gilt title. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Wheeler, G. M.
Report upon United States Geographical Surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, in charge of Capt. Geo. M. Wheeler. Vol. I. - Geographical report.
Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1889. Large, thick 4to (29.3 x 23.5 cm). 780 pp.; 38 fine, tinted lithographed plates (several in chromolithography, tissue-guarded), three (very) large folded maps [listed as plates I-XXXVIII and Maps 1-3]. Publisher's embossed cloth. Spine with gilt vignette and title. Printed errata slip bound in; Wheeler's printed compliments tipped in on the front pastedown.
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