"LIFE UNDER THE OCEAN WAVE." - ORIGINAL 1873 ARTICLE - NOT A COPY OR REPRINT
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"LIFE UNDER THE OCEAN WAVE." Article from HARPER’S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, May 1873.
21 ½ pages. 9 ½ by 6 1/8 inches.
Illustrated with 31 small woodcut engravings including -
"Coral Fishing,"
"The Aquarium,"
"Sea-Weeds" [ full page],
"One of the Infusoria Magnified,"
"Radiolaria–Dorataspis Polyancistra,"
"Acanthostaurus purpurascens,"
"Amphilonche anormala,"
"Arachnocorys circumtexta,"
"An Isolated Polyp,"
"A Hydraria,"
"Neptune’s Glove,"
"Sea-Anemones,"
"The Beautiful Haired Medusa,"
"Chain of Phosphorescent Salpas,"
"The Pearl Fisher in Danger,"
"Divers in Their Armor,"
"The Submarine Man at his Work,"
"Toilers of the Sea" [Dr. Payerne’s hydrostat - three-chamber diving bell].
The world under the seas revealed by the microscope, diving-bell, and aquarium.
Light aging with few scattered spots; binding holes at margins.
Article preserved in an acid-free archival folder.
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