REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES. Vol.VI.: Distribution of The Fossil Flora of the Western Territories. Part 1. The Cretaceous Flora "
by HAYDEN, F. V. Leo Lesquereux
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Washington: Department of the Interior / GPO, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Good plus. Quarto; 136 pa;ges + 30 monochromatic lithographed plates by T. Sinclair & Son.
"This elaborate memoir of Professor Lesquereux will be indispensable to every student of the geology of the West," - Haydens's Letter to the Secretary of the Interior Department.
George Bird GRINNELL's copy, received and signed by him, March 19, 1875. Yale Professor Grinnell was highly influential in preserving the American buffalo, and getting national parks created in the West.
"This elaborate memoir of Professor Lesquereux will be indispensable to every student of the geology of the West," - Haydens's Letter to the Secretary of the Interior Department.
George Bird GRINNELL's copy, received and signed by him, March 19, 1875. Yale Professor Grinnell was highly influential in preserving the American buffalo, and getting national parks created in the West.
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- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230227
- Title
- REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES. Vol.VI.
- Author
- HAYDEN, F. V. Leo Lesquereux
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Department of the Interior / GPO
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1874
- Keywords
- NATURAL HISTORY, cretaceous fossils, dakota group, kansas, nebraska, mexico, george bird grinnell, leo lesquereux, fossil flora, western americana,
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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