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[004135] . Special Report of the United States Board on Geographic Names Relating to The Geographic Names in the Philippine Islands.. Washington: Goverment Printing Office, 1901. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Stiff Covers. Philippines. Good+ to Very Good- List of Coastwise Names, Philippine Archipelago, as compiled in the U.S. Hydrographic Office. 59 pp. Submitted to the Senate and House of Representatives. William McKinley,President. 15,000 copies printed. ex.-mus. stamp and numbers on front cover. Mildly soiled covers. Small spine strip missing from each end. Covers intact. Overall covers are Good+ to Very Good-. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $95.00

[002948] . REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FOR THE YEARS 1883-1914. 22 Reports.. ill. Tables, Colored Maps,. Washington: Government Printing Office, Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Paper Wraps. National Academy of Sciences. Good or Better For the years: 1883,1884,1885, 1887, 1888, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905,1907 and 1914. 22 individual years. Some articles (Appendices) include: Report on Methylated Spirits & Glucose (1883), Report on the National Surveys and Signal Service (1884), Report on the Astronomical Day,The Eclipse of the Sun in 1886, and The Erection of a new Naval Observatory (1885), Report on Opium, 1887 and Report on the International Astronomical Congress, Held in Paris, April, 1887.(1887), Preliminary Report on the Investigation of the North Magnetic Pole (1890), Standards for Electrical Measure (1894), Specifications for the Practical Application of the Definitions of the Ampere and Volt (1895),Scientific Surveys of the Philippine Islands (1904),and Biographical Notes on Deceased Members (1914). ex-mus. stamp on front covers and some have numbers. Overall covers are Good or Better. Some soiling, chipping and occasional.missing pieces. 1904 covers detached with tears and missing piece, 1 3/4"x1/2" on back cover and title p. tear at spine gutter. All interiors are Very Good, tight and clean. 5 reports have museum stamp on title p. $445.00

[004136] Clague, John A.. BACTERIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF PHILIPPINE FISHERY PRODUCTS. ill. Tables. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1950. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Stiff Covers. Philippines. Very Good+ Research Report 27. Fish and Wildlife Service. United States Department of the Interior. Crisanto Almario, Bacteriologist. 12 pp. 8 tables. Grey covers are VG+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+ $10.00

[004133] Clague, John A.. FISHING GEAR PRESERVATIVES FOR PHILIPPINE WATERS. ill. Tables, Drawing. Washington: United States Printing Office, 1950. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Stiff Covers. Philippines. Very Good Research Report 22. Fish and Wildlife Service. United States Department of the Interior. Bienvenido Datingaling, Technologists. 23 pp. 7 tables. One illustration of Reel for drying gill nets and seines.. Grey covers. two vertical creases as if folded-minor. otherwise exterior is VG+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $15.00

[004134] Hamm, William S.. LIVER OIL PROPERTIES OF PHILIPPINE SHARKS AND RAYS. ill. Table. Washington: United States Printing Office, 1950. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Stiff Covers. Philippines. Very Good+ Research Report 23. Fish and Wildlife Service. United States Department of the Interior. 5 pp. Grey covers. exterior is VG+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $10.00

[000205] Musser, Guy G.. RESULTS OF THE ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS. NO 11O. CRUNOMYS AND THE SMALL-BODIED SHREW RATS NATIVE TO THE PHILIPPINES ISLANDS AND SULAWESI (CELEBES). ill. Figures (drawings,maps, photographs) Tables. New York: Amer Museum Natural History New York, 1982. Size: Approx. 6 3/4" x 10". Stiff Covers. Natural History. Very Good+ Near Fine Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Volume 174: Article 1. "Crunomys is a terrestrial rat of small body size, short tail, and dark fur that was considered an endemic of the Philippine Islands...The species of Crunomys are related to a species of small-bodied shrew rats known only from Mount Isarog in the southeastern peninsula of Luzon Island." 95 pp. 60 figures. Blue stiff paper covers. Bulletin is Very Good + to Near Fine. Interior is tight, clean and Near Fine. $30.00

[004621] Roosevelt, Theodore & William H.Taft. THE PHILIPPINES. THE FIRST CIVIL GOVERNOR; CIVIL GOVERNMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES. New York: The Outlook Company, 1902. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". Red Cloth. Philippines. Very Good The First Civil Governor: by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States; and Civil Government in the Philippines, by William H. Taft (Civil Governor of the Philippines) "Governor Taft's survey of what has been already accomplished in the Philippines in establishing civil government is the best possible indication for what may be done in the future in extending and completing the work....nowhere have the facts been stated so fully and so authoritatively as they are here by Governor Taft....The qualities of Judge Taft's character and the nature of his experience which made him the choice of President McKinley are admirably brought out in President Roosevelt's personal sketch of "The First Civil Governor". This characteristically direct and vigorous appreciation was written a very few weeks before the assassination of President McKinley..." 142 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Slightly soiled covers. Spine faded. Slightly rubbed spine ends. Corners mildly rubbed. Overall covers are Very Good. Top Edge gilt. Blank page before title half page hinge breaking. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. Frontis. portrait of Taft. $90.00

[002914] Smithsonian Annual Report. Proceedings of the United States National Museum Volume 51. ill. Plates, Figures, Tables. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917. Green Cloth. Good Contents: CALIFORNIA LAND SHELLS by Paul Bartsch. HETEROPTEROUS HEMIPTERS by E. Bergroth..COCCINELLID LARVAE by Adam Boving. KOREAN SORCERRESS, by I.M. Casanowicz. FOSSIL INSECTS by T.D.A. Cockerell, NEW SPECIES OF FORAMINIFERA FROM PHILIPPINE ...by Joseph Cushman. INVERTEBRATE FAUNA OF FLINT RIVER, GEORGIA, and MOLLUSKS...by William Healey Dall. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW LEPIDOPTERA, MEXICO by Harrison.Dyar.JAPANESE MACROUROID FISHES, collected by ALBATROSS 1906 by Charles Henry Gilbert. NORTH AMERICAN CHALCIDOID by A.A. Girault.ROTATIORIAN GENERA LEPADELLA AND LOPHOCHARIS...by Harry L. Harring. EXTINCT MAMMALS...TEXAS by Oliver P. Hay. PARASITIC ISOPOD CRUSTACEANS by W.P.Hays. LOWER JURASSIC FLORA, ALASKA by F. H. Knowlton. RED SPIDERS by E.A. McGregor. MOLLUSKS FROM CHOCTAWHATCHEE MARL, by Wendell C. Mansfield. PHILIPPINE ELEGANT TITMOUSE...by Edgar Alexander Mearns. METEORIC STONE FROM FLORIDA, IRON METEORITE FROM COOKEVILLE, TENNESSEE and METEORIC IRONS FROM GEORGIA by George Merrill. WEEVILS by W. Dwight Pierce. WHITE FLIES by A.L. Quaintance and A.C. Baker. NEW ALASKAN MOLLUSK by Victor Sterki. MUSCOID FLIES by Charles Townsend. FOSSIL PLANTS FROM PENNSYLVANIA and NOTES ON ALUNITE, PSILOMELANITE AND TITANITE by Edgar T. Wherry and NEW BRACHIOPODS...MAINE by Henry Shaler Williams. 675 pps. Index. Plates, Figures and Tables. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design. Front cover has small scratches ? (silverfish?). Water stains to spine and top gutter with waviness to touch. Doesn't go through to interior. Otherwise covers intact and Good. Ex-lib.bookplate on front endpaper with numbers.. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $45.00

[004137] Warfel, Herbert E.. OTTER TRAWL EXPLORATIONS IN PHILIPPINE WATERS. ill. Foldout Maps, Figures(maps), Tables. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1950. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9". Stiff Covers. Philippines. Very Good to Very Good- Research Report 25. Fish and Wildlife Service. United States Department of the Interior. Porfirio R. Manacop, Aquatic Biologists. 49 pp. 33 tables. 16 map illustrations of otter-trawl explorations 5 of which are foldout maps in back pocket. Grey covers. one vertical crease down center as if folded-minor. Back cover creased. otherwise exterior is VG+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+ $45.00

[004132] Warfel, Herbert E. And John A. Clague. OUTLOOK FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A TUNA INDUSTRY IN THE PHILIPPINES. ill. Pablo Bravo. Washington: United States Printing Office, 1950. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Stiff Covers. Tuna. Very Good Research Report 28. Fish and Wildlife Service. United States Department of the Interior. Chapters cover: Philippine tunas, History of Philippine tuna fishery, Japanese fishery, American exploration. 37 pp. 17 illustrations, many of tunas of the region and maps. Grey covers. Front top corner turned under, otherwise exterior is VG+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $15.00