(#166797) Further contributions to the geology of the Sierra Nevada by Henry W. Turner[.] Extracts from the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Survey, 1895-96 part I -- Director's report and other papers [cover title]. HENRY WARD TURNER.

Further contributions to the geology of the Sierra Nevada by Henry W. Turner[.] Extracts from the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Survey, 1895-96 part I -- Director's report and other papers [cover title]. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896. 29.5x19.8 cm, pp. 523-762; 1061-1076: index, errata slip tipped in, 31 inserted plates including 1 diagram and 1 map (in color), 5 diagrams and drawings in the text, First separate edition. At head of title: "Department of the Interior -- U. S. Geological Survey / Charles D. Walcott, Director." Collected in Seventeenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1895-96. Part I. This paper on the rocks of the northern Sierra Nevada supplements Turner's study, "The Rocks of the Sierra Nevada," published in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1892-93. Part II -- Accompanying Papers (1894). Henry Ward Turner (1857-1937), American geologist, mining engineer, member of the United States Geological Survey, 1892-1900. Wrappers soiled, stained, worn and chipped, spine reinforced with white cloth tape, scattered marginalia and underlining in pencil, last two leaves have chips from the upper fore-edge margins, internally a sound, very good copy. Provenance: "Compliments / of / H. W. Turner" at upper right corner of the front cover. (#166797).

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