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. Good / No Jacket. Item #2351844
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 Elements; The Frozen Ocean; Icebergs; Life in the Ocean; Minute Animal Life; Coral - The Rock Builders; Pearls; Sponges; Seals; Whales the Monarchs of the Ocean; The Whale Fishery and Its Peril; Sharks and the Pirates of the Ocean; Sea-Horses and Narwhals; Nautili the Floating Navigators of the Ocean; Modes of Fishing in Various Countries; Odds and Ends About Fishes; Shells; Sea Birds; Superstitions Connected with the Ocean; Marine Prodigies; Monsters of the Deep-Sea Dragons; Submarine Scenery - Animal and Vegetable; The Bed of the Ocean. Deep Sea Soundings; Phenomena of the Ocean; Ocean Steamships; The Signal Service; The Life-Saving Service; Lighthouses and Beacons.
Price: $75.00