Anglo-American Caribbean Commission. There are 40 different species of sharks in the waters of the Caribbean. 149 pp. including Appendices. 56 illustrations. Some soiling to covers otherwise covers are Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. View More...
One of a series of "country booklets" published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Commerce Department, Washington D.C. Wraps are in country's colors with crest. No pub date. Unpaginated. Light wear to cover edges and corners. Interior clean. Pamphlet in VG condition. View More...
One of a series of "country booklets" published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Commerce Department, Washington D.C. Wraps are in country's colors with crest. No pub date. Unpaginated. Light wear to cover edges, back cover soiled. Interior is clean. Pamphlet in VG condition. View More...
One of a series of "country booklets" published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Commerce Department, Washington D.C. Wraps are in country's colors with crest. No pub date. Unpaginated. Back cover has dirt smudges, wear to cover edges. Interior is clean. Pamphlet in VG- condition. View More...
Reprint. Pages 76-93. Four b/w plates. Tan paper wraps with staple binding, back cover is missing. Front cover has chipping and small tears to edges, edge is darkened, cover is dirty and creased. Most interior page edges are chipping, many are uncut along top edge. Interior has some dirt smudges, creasing to corners. Document is Good- to Good. View More...
"In February, 1903, a magnetograph was installed in a room in Fort Isabel Segunda, on Vieques Island, Porto Rico, and observations were continued there until April, 1907. At that time suitable buildings had been constructed for the observatory work, and the magnetograph was transferred to the new site, about five-eighths of a mile(1 kilometer west of the old fort." 102 pp. 13 graphs with reproductions of magnetograms showing the principal magnetic storms. Numerous tables.Tan paper wraps. Mildly soiled. fading to spine and top front edge. Front cover split from top to bottom so cover ... View More...
"In February, 1903, a magnetograph was installed in a room in Fort Isabel Segunda, on Vieques Island, Porto Rico, and variation observations were continued there until April, 1907. At that time suitable buildings had been constructed for the observatory work, and the magnetograph was transferred to the new site, about five-eighths of a mile ( 1 kilometer) west of the old fort." The work of the Porto Rico Observatory was in charge of the following magnetic observers: F. Neumann and Harold W. Pease. 102 pp. 15 foldout graphs with reproductions of magnetograms showing the principal magne... View More...
Written by the Late Captain of Company L and dedicated "To the Brave Officer and men of Company L, Second Massachusetts Infantry, U.S. V., whos sacrificed their lives for their country". " The breaking out of the Spanish War found Company L, Second Regiment Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, or as it known socially, " The Greenfield Light Infantry" in a fairly flourishing condition. Many of the members were old timers and had distinguished themselves as well drilled men, and at the rifle butts..." 124 pp. Filled with photographs including 10 pages with portraits... View More...
"Rather than turn what follows into one of those endless rambling travelogues fraught with human interest, private misapprehensions, and succinct domestic wit, I have intentionally reduced any personal narrative to a staccato sprinkling of comings and goings. It was the jungle and the animals in it that we went to see and which interested me most." Narrative of experience in the jungles of Trinidad, Haiti, and Surinam and the animals the author encountered. Thirty-two illustrations of many of the animals, including peripatus, pouch-back frog, cave opossum, blood-lapping bat, crab-ea... View More...
