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90 Years and 535 miles: Vegitation Changes along the Mexican Border
by Robert Regester Humphrey (1904-2002)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good to fine/Very Good to fine
- ISBN 10
- 0826309453
- ISBN 13
- 9780826309457
- Seller
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About This Item
v+448 pages with maps, photographs and appendices. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's beige clot with gilt lettering to spine in original publisher's pictorial jacket. First edition. Between 1892 and 1894, 258 monuments were erected and photographed along the Mexican border between El Paso and the Pacific Ocean. Their original purpose was to serve as unalterable evidence in the boundary and rights-of-acess disputes that periodically arose between the United States and Mexico, but Professor Humphrey has found a contemporary application for this border survey project. By comparing the original photographs with his own repeat photographs of the monuments made approximately ninety years later, he has been able to determine the kinds of and amount of vegetation changes that have occurred over this relatively long period. Condition: Corners bumped. Jacket spine sunned, points rubbed else a very good to fine copy in like jacket.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS000074
- Title
- 90 Years and 535 miles: Vegitation Changes along the Mexican Border
- Author
- Robert Regester Humphrey (1904-2002)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good to fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good to fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0826309453
- ISBN 13
- 9780826309457
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico 1987 Albuquerque
- Place of Publication
- Albuquerque
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Mexico
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
- Size
- Royal octavo
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