1879 THE OCEAN Illustrated SEA Antique OCEANOGRAPHY Maritime SAIL Victorian Book
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THE OCEAN. First Edition. Published in 1879 by Dodd, Mead & Company. 7” x 4.5” decorated cloth hardcover. Illustrated. 110 pages. Condition: GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Exterior as shown in photos. Inner hinges cracked but holding well. Firm binding. Text is clean and complete. No torn, loose or missing pages. Description: This is a beautiful and richly illustrated antique overview of the mighty sea and its physical characteristics and phenomena, a study which ...in later times would become known as oceanography. Published for general interest, THE OCEAN covers a number of oceanographical topics: the composition and color of seawater, the nature of the ocean floor, whirlpools, icebergs, rising seas, tropical seas, polar seas, ships locked in ice, the height of waves and how they are formed, ocean currents, the Gulf Stream, creation of storms, tides and tidal waves, the action of the sea upon the coastlines of the world, and more. THE OCEAN features 33 illustrations of marine scenes above and below the surface – ships, icebergs, sea birds, ocean dwellers, and more. Below you will find a selection of illustrations from THE OCEAN. I hope you’ll take a moment to have a look. Illustrations Include: The Frigate Bird * Top of a Lily Star * Relative Size of Land and Water * Brook’s Sounding Apparatus * Coast Scene * A Greenland Glacier * Shells of Foraminifera * Fishing on the Banks of Newfoundland * Foraminifera * Molluscs * Oyster Bed * Salt Works by the Seashore * Sea Pen * Sea Fan * Flying Fish * Sea Horse * Phosphorescence * An Arctic Ocean * Antarctic Ice Wall * An Arctic Dry Dock * Sunset at Sea * Stormy Petrel * Gale at Sea * Portuguese Man of War * Cuttlefish in Indian Ocean * High Tide on the Coast * Low Tide on the Coast * High Tide in the River * Low Tide in the River * The Bore on the Hoogly River * Norway Fjord * Head of a Fjord * Islands off Norway Coast Remember folks, this is an 1879 First Edition. This book is 140 years old. Check out all the RARE ANTIQUE BOOKS ABOUT THE INDIAN WARS, CIVIL WAR, REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THE OLD WEST THAT I'M OFFERING ON EBAY THIS WEEK! Please be sure to add me to your List of Favorite Sellers! Don't miss out on any of my latest listings. Click here to sign up for the NEETMOK NEWSLETTER! Winner pays for media mail shipping in the United States of America. INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS: All international bidders must pay by PayPal. © 2019 by eBay seller neetmok. NEETMOK BOOKS IS A REGISTERED MEMBER OF EBAY’S VERO PROGRAM. Unauthorized use of Item Description Text or Images is a violation of eBay rules, as posted by eBay: "No Copying Allowed! When you prepare your listings you generally should use only material (text, photographs, etc.) and trademarks/names that you created or own yourself or licensed from the owners." Auction page content (i.e., item description text; lists of contents, lists of illustrations/photos; scanned images, etc.) was written/compiled/formatted by eBay seller neetmok and, as intellectual property, is protected by copyright. UNAUTHORIZED USE OF ITEM DESCRIPTION TEXT INCLUDING SUMMARIES OF CONTENTS, ILLUSTRATIONS, ETC., PHOTOS OR OTHER PROPRIETARY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND WILL BE REPORTED TO EBAY’S VERO DEPARTMENT FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION.
