Twenty-First Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1899-1900 – Charles D. Walcott Director In Seven Parts. Part III – General Geology, Ore and Phosphate Deposits Philippines [with two RARE, different maps after Algué]

Description

644pp., hardbound, original cloth with gilt titles & vignette, with numerous plates and maps including 2 PH maps (after Algué), 1 view of Mayon Volcano, and 1 large folding colour map of “Geological Map of A Part of the Mesabi District, Minnesota” in rear pocket.

Including “Report on the Geology of the Philippine Islands by George F. Becker”, followed by a version of “Ueber Tertiäre Fossilien von den Philippinen (1895) by K. Martin, pp. 487-625. [Concerning Tertiary Fossils in the Philippines] the 2 Algué maps are the same as in the Algué atlas BUT show in the upper right this original book title as the origin of the publication: “Twenty-First Annual Report Part III PL. LXVII and LXVIII – thus collector’s items.