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Report on the fossil plants of Illinois / by Leo Lesquereux

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Author:
Lesquereux, Leo 1806-1889  Search this
Worthen, Amos Henry 1813-1888  Search this
Annotator:
Lesquereux, Leo 1806-1889 DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Lacoe, R. D (Ralph Dupuy) 1824-1901 DSI  Search this
Engraver:
Western Engraving Co.  Search this
Physical description:
p. [377]-508, V, [1], leaves of plates V-XXXI : ill. ; 27 cm. in box 28 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Place:
Illinois
Date:
1870
1870]
Notes:
Title from half-title (wanting in this copy; replaced by ms. t.p.).
Running titles: Palaeontology of Illinois. Fossil plants.
Plates signed: Leo Lesquereux del., A.H. Worthen direxit; Western Engraving Co., Chicago.
Excerpted from: Geological Survey of Illinois, v. 4, Geology and palaeontology, pt. 2, sect. 2, Palaeontology of Illinois.
Plates accompanied by tissue guard sheets with letter-press captions, not counted in pagination statement.
Errata: p. V (2nd group).
Also available online.
Ms. note on front free endpaper: L. Lesquereux, Columbus, O., bound May 1871.
The author has provided extensive marginalia in pencil and manuscript annotations in ink on approximately 322 interleaved pages of blue paper, keyed to the corresponding page number in the report.
Stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, with accession no. in ink: 266959.
Bookplate: Library of R.D. Lacoe. For the promotion of research in paleobotany and paleozoölogy. Return to Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Bound in black half-leather over embossed cloth, with binder's title: Illinois coal plants.
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Topic:
Paleobotany  Search this
Call number:
MSS 001715 B
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_232984