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Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842
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- By Charles Wilkes ... with illustrations and maps. In five volumes
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- United States Exploring Expedition
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- English
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- Philadelphia : Lea & Blanchard, 1845
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- 5 volumes : illustrations, 11 maps (including frontispieces : volumes 1, 4, 5), tables ; 25 cm + 1 atlas (5 folded maps, 29 cm)
- OCLC
- ocm01335141
- On verso of title page: Stereotyped by J. Fagan. Printed by C. Sherman.
- Vol. 1: lvi, 434 p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: xi, 476 p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 3: xi, 438 p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 4: xiii, 539 p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded); v. 5: xii, 558 p., [4] folded leaves of plates.
- " ... This edition ... contains ... the same type, page and reading matter, as the one in imperial octavo; the difference between them being in the quality and size of the paper; the substitution of forty-seven wood-cuts for that number of steel vignettes in the other; the omission of the sixty-four plates, and the use of eleven of the fourteen maps, four of which are on a reduced scale."--Publisher's notice.
- V. 1-5. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-42 / by Charles Wilkes -- v. 6. Ethnography and philology / by Horatio Hale. 1846 -- v. 7. Zoophytes / by James D. Dana. 1846, and atlas of 61 pl. 1849. -- v. 8. Mammalogy and ornithology / by John Cassin, and atlas of 53 pl. 1858 -- v. 9. The races of man, and their geographical distribution / by Charles Pickering. 1848 -- v. 10. Geology / by James D. Dana, and atlas of 21 pl. 1849 -- v. 11. Meteorology / by Charles Wilkes. 1851 -- v. 12. Mollusca & shells / by Augustus A. Gould. 1852. Atlas of 52 pl. 1856. -- v. 13. Crustacea / by James D. Dana. 1 v. in 2, 1852. Atlas of 96 pl. 1855. -- v. 15. Botany. Phanerogamia / by Asa Gray. Part 1, 1 v. , 1854. Atlas of 100 pl. 1856 -- v. 16. Botany. Cryptogamia. Filices, including Lycopodiaceæ and Hydropterides / by William D. Brackenridge. 1854. Atlas of 46 pl. -- v. 17. Botany. Cryptogamia. Musci / by William S. Sullivant. Lichenes / by Edward Tuckerman. Algæ / by J.W. Bailey and W.H. Harvey. Fungi / by M.A. Curtis and M.J. Berkeley. Phanerogamia of Pacific North America / by John Torrey. Ed. by Asa Gray, 1874 -- v. 20. Herpetology / prepared under the superintendence of S.F. Baird ; by Charles Girard, and atlas of 23 pl. 1858 -- v. 23. Hydrography / by Charles Wilkes. 1861. Atlas of 106 charts. 1858.
- Also available in digital form on the Smithsonian Institution Web site.
- Also available in microform.
Subjects
- United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
- Oceania -- Discovery and exploration.
- Voyages around the world.
- Scientific expeditions -- United States.
- Oceania -- Description and travel.
- South America -- Description and travel.
- Hawaii -- Description and travel.
- Oregon -- Description and travel.
- Antarctica.
- Mammals -- United States.
- Birds -- United States.