My Smooth Log of the Orient.

STARKS,, Edwin Chapin (1867�1932).�

Editore: [Palo Alto, California]: The Old Garret Press, [1930].

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Not illustrated; erratic pagination, [8] preliminary leaves (some numbered) then pp. 5�50 printed on double leaves, Chinese style. Final leaf containing page 51 present but not bound in. . pp. 4to, brittle card stock covers, black paper spine, chipped. Copy 45 of one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author. Very well printed on the family�s private press. Each of the Chapters begins with a large decorated initial.OCLC shows 5 holdings: American Museum of National History, Stanford, The Huntington, UC at Santa Cruz and the University of Wyoming. The author was an ichthyologist specializing in the osteology of fish. In this work he describes his researches in the Philippines and East Asia. He also did a study of the fish of Puget Sound. A graduate of Stanford University, he returned there in 1901 as Curator of Zoology and an Assistant Professor. He was a man of many interests and talents, including being a very fine printer. He traveled widely joining several important scientific expeditions, he wrote and printed two other journals of his travels. A full obituary can be found in Science, Vol. Science�17 Feb 1933: and in the 1990 issue Vol. 77, pp. 182�184.

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• Titolo: My Smooth Log of the Orient.
• Editore: [Palo Alto, California]: The Old Garret Press, [1930].