[Tenth] Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories Embracing Colorado and Parts of Adjacent Territories Being a Report of the Progress of the Exploration for the Year 1874

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (23 cm), pp. xxix [1], 546. Rebound in black cloth, gilt spine titling. Organized in four parts: Geology, Topography, Archaeology and Ethnology, and Palaeontology and Zoology. Includes index, three extremely fragile maps in back pocket. Many plates, maps, illustrations and figures, all present.Contains library markings from the Harvard Geology Library, and a bookplate on front pastedown from the Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Pages are frail, as are folded maps (some with detached panels and others with taped repairs). Binding remains tight. (Inventory #: 39993)