Editore: The State of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, 1919
Da: The Haunted Bookshop, LLC, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Clean pages except for a prior owner's ink stamp on the top edge of the book and on the first (blank) page, along with some specking around page edges; internally stapled binding is secure, though staples have pulled through the front endpaper; black cloth backstrip shows fading, finish loss, and small spots of fraying, along with a handmade title label taped to the upper spine; boards show toning and hard scuffs around edges as well as some foxing across the rear, otherwise sound. 540pp; b/w illus. Topics addressed include germicidal agents, ecological surveys, grasshopper control, seed formation in Utricularia, formaldehyde as a wheat treatment, geological study in floodplains, Aftonian gravels, voltage and candle-power, wall rheostats, tellurium crystals, medicine as practiced in the first World War, and more.
Editore: The State of Iowa, Des Moines, 1914
Da: The Haunted Bookshop, LLC, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. A prior owner's ink stamp on the top edge of the book and on the first (blank) page, as well as a tide line affecting the bottom free corners of hard cover and (if very lightly) the pages; internally stapled binding is secure; black cloth backstrip shows some softening at spine ends and a homemade title label taped to the upper half; boards show a few small spots along with the clear liquid stains, as well as hard scuffs at corners; nonetheless sound. x, 161pp; b/w illus. Topics addressed include classification of Iowa butterflies, dolomites and eskers, longitudinal division of hydra, the diphtheria epidemic of 1912-13, lichen, sulfofication in soils, Monona county flora, fossilized tree ferns, and more.