Author: PRESTWICH, Joseph (1812-1896).:
Title: Tables of Temperatures of the Sea at different Depths beneath the Surface, reduced and collated from the various observations made between 1749 and 1868, discussed. With Map and Sections. (From the Phil. Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 165.)
Description: [London.] 4to, 26cm. Pp. 587-764, 1 large fold. map, 6 sections on 3 fold. plates, several tabs. in text, notes & refs.; errata slip tipped-in between pages 638 and 639. Modern boards lined with red vergé paper, printed title label on backstrip, old plain front wrapper bound in. Very good. - Inscribed on first page "From the author" (a little cut into). Cf. Sears & Merriman, Oceanography - the Past, p. 258. Dict. Sci. Biogr., XI, p. 131.

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