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New York State Museum 62d Annual Report 1908 Volume I 28th Report of the State Geologist

1909 · 014713 — Albany: University of the State of New York 1909. Original green cloth gilt is in Very Good condition. The book's inner hinges are badly cracked and nearly separated. However since the text block is secure entirely intact it could be easily re-cased without any re-sewing required. Thick 8vo. 234pp. 51pp. 66pp. 41pp. approx. 100 plates inserted. Complete with all of the maps as called for by the table of contents. A tough-to-find book especially complete with all the BEAUTIFUL MULTI-COLOR FOLDING MAPS IN PERFECT CONDITION. Any of them would look magnificent framed. This amazing miscellany contains the Fifth Report to the Director 1908 and Museum Bulletins 126-128 and 133 and Report of the State Paleontologist for 1908. A particularly useful contribution is: One Hundred Years of New York State Geologic Maps 1809-1909 by Henry Leighton. It includes a CARTO-BIBLIOGRAPHY that describes 329 New York Geologic Maps and has its own index. Some other contributions: A Peculiar Landslip in the Hudson River Clays by D. H. Newland; Some Items Concerning a New and an Old Coast Line of Lake Champlain by George H. Hudson; Types of Inliers Observed in New York by Rudolf Ruedemann; The Last of the Iroquois Potters by M. R. Harrington; etc. There are several other articles on the same subjects as and supporting the maps described below. Bound into Museum Bulletin 127 are NINE MULTI-COLOR FOLDING MAPS #34-42: showing 9 stages of Glacial Lake Succession in New York State 1908. In a pocket at the end are SEVEN BEAUTIFUL MULTI-COLOR FOLDING MAPS most by H. L. Fairchild as follows: Museum Bulletin 126: Geologic Map of the Remsen Quadrangles unfolds to 17" wide by 21" tall; Museum Bulletin 127: Plate 2: Channels and Deltas of Ice-Border Drainage between Leroy and Fishers 1906. 39" wide by 17.5" tall; Museum Bulletin 127: Plate 3: Channels and Deltas of Ice-Border Drainage between Irondequoit and Cayuga Valleys 1906. 39" wide by 20" tall; Museum Bulletin 127: Plate 4: Channels and Deltas of Ice-Border Drainage between Jordan and Chittenango Valleys 1906. 36" wide by 20" tall; Museum Bulletin 127: Plate 5: Channels and Deltas of Ice-Border Drainage between Chittenango and Oneida 1906. 17" wide by 12" tall; Museum Bulletin 128: Geologic Map of the Geneva-Ovid Quadrangles 17" wide by 38" tall; Museum Bulletin 128: East-West Section on Ovid and Genoa Quadrangles. Showing the Low Synclines of the Lake Basins. 17" wide by 8" tall. This copy has the small ink stamp of C. Wesley Yeakel in 4 places. First Edition. Hardcover. VG inner hinges cracked/No jacket. Illus. by Fairchild H. L. maps. Thick 8vo. University of the State of New York Hardcover