Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1900
by Langley, S. P. (Secretary, Smithsonian Institution)
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About This Item
Government Printing Office, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. 738 pages. Document no. 537, part 2. Report on various departments of the National Museum with articles describing and illustrating collections including Aboriginal American Harpoons: A Study in Ethnic Distribution and Invention by Otis Tufton Mason; A Sketch of the History of the Ceramic Art in China with a Catalogue of the Hippisley Collection of Chinese Porcelains by Alfred E. Hippisley; A Collection of Hopi Ceremonial Pigments by Walter Hough; and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Meteorite Collection in the U. S. National Museum by Wirt Tassin. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Original calf binding has been repaired with page block reglued a bit too low. Front hinge cracked. A large, heavy book.
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- Bookseller
- Eureka Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 206660
- Title
- Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1900
- Author
- Langley, S. P. (Secretary, Smithsonian Institution)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Date Published
- 1902
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- Calf
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- Jacket
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- Cracked
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- Hinge
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- First Edition
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