[Adirondacks] Colvin, Verplanck.

Seventh Annual Report on the Progress of the Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Region of New York, to the year 1879 [with] Report on the progress of the Adirondack State Land Survey to the Year 1886.

Albany: Weed Parsons, 1880. Hardcover. Signed presentation copies from Colvin to Amasa J. Parker, of the Parker family of New York legislators. Colvin was the first to thoroughly explore the Adirondack Mountains and track its environmental degradation. His advocacy led to the creation of New York's Forest Preserve and the Adirondack Park.

The book contains the condensed reports for the years 1874-75-76-77 and '78. There are numerous maps & lithographic panoramic prints, which are very attractive. With late results in geodetic and trigonometrical measurements, magnetic variation, hydrography, river surveys, leveling and barometric-hypsometry, meteorology, rain-fall, botany, zoology and geology.

Amasa Junius Parker, to whom the book is presented (1843 - 1938) served in the New York State Senate, and graduated from Union College in 1863 and Albany Law School in 1864. He fought in the American Civil War, was a member of the State Assembly in 1882; and of the State Senate (1886, 1887; 1892 - 1895). He was a trustee of Union College and the Albany Law School, and active in the National Guard.

8vo, color frontis, 7 folding maps, 536pp, b&w plates. Brown stamped cloth covers, gilt title at spine. Ex-library, with faint library number base of spine, small round library label at front paste down. Spine ends very slt rubbed, front board slightly marked, outer edges of maps ruffled. OCLC: 10236144.
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Report on the progress of the Adirondack State Land Survey to the Year 1886: with an Historical Sketch of the work and table of Elevations. With an engraved presentation card from Colvin at the front paste down and Amasa Parker's stamp above.

8vo, 343pp, illustrations, 8 folding maps. Green stamped gilt cloth with gilt title at spine. Spine ends a bit rubbed, cloth front board faintly marked. Ex-library, with faint library number base of spine, small round library label at front paste down. "Duplicate" stamp at front free end paper and stamp "Presented by Amasa J. Parker Class 1863, U. C." stamp at front paste down. Outer edges of maps a bit ruffled. OCLC: 44523598. Fine copy. Item #22102

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