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Item #16-6273 Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Philadelphia. New Series. Vol. I. Part...

Gambel, William; Joseph Leidy; Prof. Ricahrd Owen; John Cassin; T. Bowen, lithographer; R.P. Smith, lithographer

Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Philadelphia. New Series. Vol. I. Part I.: Mr. Gambel on the birds of California; Miscellanea Zoologica; Prof. Owen on certain fossil bones; Mr. Tuomey on teh Zeuglodon; Fossil Genus Basilosaurus. First edition.

Philadelphia: The Academy, 1847. Folio. 27 x 36 cm. Original front wrap. 90pp. and 10 plates hors texte, incl. 2 color lithographs..Professor Richard Owen's work on fossil bones led him to coin the term Dinosauria in 1842, creating the formal group for extinct creatures like Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, and Hylaeosaurus based..... More

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Item #16-5925 Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan :...

Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858; Francis L. Hawks, (Francis Lister), 1798-1866; Daniel S. Greenl J. Morrow; George Jones; Bayard Taylor; G. R. West; Junius J. Boyle; Joel Abbot; B. F. Bache,; John Cassin; James Carson Brevoort; John Clarkson Jay; W. C. Redfield; Silas Bent.

Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan : performed in the years 1852, 1853, and l854, under the command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the government of the United States. 3 volumes. First editions.

Washington, D.C., A.O.P. Nicholson, 1856. 4to, 22.5 x 29cm. Vols 1 & 2 in contemporary half green morocco, rubbed on edges.; vol. 3 in publisher's decorative blindstamped brown cloth....: 165 illustrations (lithographs and woodcuts. some in color ), maps, charts. Includes the often expurgated "Public Bath at Simoda." facing p...... More