The Water World; A Popular Treatise on the Broad, Broad Ocean. Its Laws; Its Phenomena; Its Products and Inhabitants; Graphically Describing its Currents, Tides, Waves; Its Whirlpools, Water-Spouts, Typhoons and Trade Wings; Its Coral Reefs, Pearls, Shells, Sponges, Fisheries; Its Animal Life, Minute and Mammoth, from the Butterflies of Sub-marine Forests and Meadows, to Sharks, Whales and Sea Dragons; with Chapters on Steamships, Light-Houses, Life Saving Service &c., &c., &c.
New York: Union Publishing House, 1886. Hard Cover.
Hinges loosening, pencil name on front flyleaf.
512 pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt titles, gilt and black decorations. A late 19th century work on oceanography and marine biology, with numerous engraved illustrations throughout text. Includes: The Ocean - Its Laws and.....