ILLUSTRATIVE CLOUD FORMS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF OBSERVERS IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF CLOUDS; NO. 112

Published by United States Hydrographic Office, Washington DC, 1897

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Oblong Octavo, [6], 16 plates. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, gilt to front board. Boards with some wear and rubbing, including a drink ring to the front cover, fraying to extremities, and some sun-fading to rear cover. Tide-marks along entire lower edge of boards and text block. Some pencil scribbles to endpapers. Shelved case 10. Lithography by L. Prang & Co, 1897. Charles Dwight Sigsbee was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. A pioneering oceanographer and hydrographer who developed the Sigsbee sounding machine, he is now best remembered as the captain of USS Maine, which exploded in Havana Harbor, Cuba, in 1898 and set off the events that led to the start of the Spanish-American War. 1414352. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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Title
ILLUSTRATIVE CLOUD FORMS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF OBSERVERS IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF CLOUDS; NO. 112
Author
Sigsbee, C. D.
Publisher
United States Hydrographic Office, Washington DC
Publication year
1897
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Hardcover
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First Edition.
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