Report on the Geology of the Philippine Islands… Ueber tertiäre Fossilien von den Philippinen (1895) [Concerning Tertiary Fossils in the Philippines] [with maps after Algué]

₱7,700.00

Author: K. Martin / George F. Becker [translator]

Publisher: Published by Department of the Internior - U.S. Geological Survey, Charles D. Walcott, Director, printed by the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

Year: 1899 [1895]

Size: 29.5 x 19.5 cm, 4to

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Description

139pp: 487-644., I-XI, toned, re-bound in modern blue wrappers, with 3 plates [2 maps of the Philippines by Algue; 1 Mayon view] and 2 text illustrations [shells]. RARE.

Extract from the Twenty-first Annual Report of the Survey, 1899-1900, Part III – General Geology, Ore and Phosphate Deposits, Philippines. Pp7-107: Report on… pp. 108-119 List of Books and Papers on Philippine Geology, pp. 129-139 Concerning…
the 2 Algué maps are the same as in the Algué atlas BUT show in the upper right this original book title as the origin of the publication: “Twenty-First Annual Report Part III PL. LXVII and LXVIII – thus collector’s items.