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NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY]. -- BAKER, Samuel White (1821-1893). The Albert N'yanza, great basin of the Nile, and exploration of the Nile sources . London: Macmillan, 1866. 2 volumes. 8 o. Engraved and lithographed frontispieces, wood-engraved plates, numerous text illustrations, chromolithographed folding map. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered spines, gilt vignettes on front covers. FIRST EDITION. "These books were some of the first to bring to Europe a picture of Africa as it really was" (PMM 357); Norman 112. -- MAURY, Matthew Fontaine (1806-1873). The physical geography of the sea . New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. 8 o. 8 lithographed folding plates. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, gilt motif on front cover. FIRST EDITION. "The first major textbook of modern oceanography" (Grolier/Horblit 71); Norman 1463. -- With another copy of the same. -- GODMAN, John Davidson (1794-1830). American Natural History . Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & L.Lea, 1826. 3 volumes. 8 o. 51 engraved plates. Contemporary mottled sheep, gilt spines with red leather labels (minor wear; back cover of Vol. II nearly detached). FIRST EDITION. The first original treatise on the indigenous mammals of the United States. Nissen ZBI 1600; Norman 912. -- MORTILLET, Gabriel de (1821-1898). Le prhistorique antiquit de l'homme . Paris: C. Reinwald, 1883. 8 o. Text illustrations (minor foxing to many leaves). Original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. FIRST EDITION. Mortillet was one fo the first to study prehistory as an independent subject. His fourteen-epoch system remained popular until the mid-1920s. Norman 1554. -- BUCH, Christian Leopold von (1774-1853). Reise durch Norwegen und Lappland . 2 volumes. 8 o. Hand-colored map vignettes on titles, 3 folding engraved maps. Contemporary half green morocco, marbled boards, gilt spines (spines sunned). FIRST EDITION. Geological data collected by Buch, a pupil of Werner's on his extensive travels through Europe. Ward-Carozzi 363; Norman 364. (10)