On the Geology of Lower Louisiana and the Salt Deposit on Petite Anse Island
1872 · Washington, (DC)
by Hilgard, Eugene W.
Washington, (DC): Smithsonian Institution, 1872. Apparently the second separately printed edition (first issued New Haven, 1869), here issued as Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 248. 4to. (4), 34 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, maps, tables. Not in Thompson (which does list another report by Hilgard). Good serviceable copy. Original printed front wrapper (soiled, chipped along bottom edge), lacking the rear wrapper. (#5473). (Inventory #: 58908)