kitchell william beesley maurice (2 risultati)

HARD BACK BLUE. Condizione: GOOD. General ex-library wear: markings, spine labels, bookplate, bar code label, stamps from Atlantic City Free Public Library; foxing, fingerprints, browning of pages, lacks large fold out map Tables, b&w images DATE PUBLISHED: 1857 EDITION: 211.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Octavo in dark blue-green cloth with spine lettered in gilt. 205 pp. plus index at rear. 11 plates including frontis and one large folding map tipped in at rear. A tight, very good example, some spotting to the spine strip and minor wear at the spine extremities. Occasional light foxing to the text as is usual. One of the scarcest and most sought after New Jersey historical volume. Part I describes the physical and geological description of Cape May County, its geological age and formation. Part II is "Economical Geology" (analyses of soils, marsh mud, forests, agriculture, fish and fish by-products, building material substances (particularly brick), salt. The second major portion of the work consists of "Catalogues of Zoological And Botanical Productions of the County of Cape May" that includes lists of the larger wild animals of the county (opossums, bears, raccoons, skunk, fox, squirrels, rabbits, deer, etc.); birds native to the county (including bald eagles, geese, various hawks, owls, swallows, fly-catchers, and smaller birds.); fishes (black fish, mackerel, dories, catfish, mudfish, pike, flounder, herring, turbot, sole, eels, shark); plants, marine algae. There is an engraving of a Venus Mercenaria with descriptive paragraphs of that fossil and the Buccinum Obsoletum. The final section is "Sketch of the Early History of the County Of Cape May".