first edition Leather bound
1876 · Washington DC
by [U.S. House of Representatives] [Military] [War Department]
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1876. First Edition. Leather bound. Fair. Octavo. [1], xvi, [1], 475 pages. Brown sheepsking binding with title labels on the spine. Leather is lightly rubbed. News clipping laid inside one of the pages. Illustrated with numbered folding weather and related maps; one map showing Post Office Districts; (2) 2 page Tornado damage illustrations in Sparta, Georgia; several drawn figures of Tornado directions and path; Tornado cloud illustrations in Milledgeville, Georgia; and one sketched map showing the direction of a Tornado in Detroit June, 1875. Plates 1-36 are numbered and in good condition. No numbered plates for 37 and 38 (possible the 2 two page illustrations were 37, 38?). Plates 39-74 located after page 475. Plates 39-50 are generally in good condition. Plates 51-68 have varying amounts of insect damage located upper edges left upper margins with slight loss. Plates 58, 61 are detached but present. Plate 62 repaired on the folds. Plates 69-74 generally in good condition. Poor to fair condition only with the possibility of missing plates 37, 38.
(Inventory #: 30777)