Recently, I was given an origin edition with all the maps of
Bulletin No. 1 Report of 1905
Geological Survey of Louisiana
Gilbert D. Harris, Geologist in Charge
A Report of the Underground Waters of Louisiana
Harris, Veatch and others
containing four papers based on three field sessions, 1903,1904,1905
1. Underground Waters of Louisiana
2. Terrestrial Magnetism and Meridian Line Work
3. Establishment of Tide Gauge Work
4. Underground Water Resources of Northern Louisiana
I know that we have communicated about your PHD studies and wondered if you have this book.
If not, I will sell it for about $10,000 to you.
or what do you have to trade. 😉
I traded some signed James Lee Burke novels for it:
I think there is one in the Nichols State Library
R
What is Google Books, Alex?
That same book is available full view on Google Books. FYI. :>
What is Google Books, Alex?
As I read your post I envisioned a WWII fighter getting hit, catching on fire and crashing into the Pacific Ocean.
What is Google Books, Alex?
It looks like none of the fold out maps are scanned.
This happens a lot with scanned material in libraries such as Stanford, Harvard etc.
I think that there are only 2 bound copies that I know of in Louisiana.
This copy was given to me by my friend Russel whose father was the renowned architect from the LSU/Baton Rouge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Desmond
I thought that since Frank has emailed to me about his PHD work, that this bok may be on his shelf or maybe not.
What is Google Books, Alex?
> It looks like none of the fold out maps are scanned.
Robert, if I understand you, you're offering to provide digital photos of the maps so that a Google Books user will be able to have the entire work while leaving the hardcopy versions for the libraries. That's very generous!
Robert....
$10,000 sounds like a very reasonable offer.....for you anyway!
What is Google Books, Alex?
Wow, that is surprisingly nice of him, from $10,000 down to free.
Kent....surely you jest?
and surely you know the value of old fold out maps in books and the value of the original plate drawing like botanical prints etc. well, I would think that you would know. Got any old botanical plates on the walls that were removed from book?
Matter of fact it is a possibility that starving grad student at Stanford has already removed the maps and sold them on ebay for who knows what. This is a coomon scourge to olspd books. Thet are bought and torn apart for the maps.
But let me tell you for a fact that the maps are worth a lot more attached to the original book with a nice buckram binding.
so let's assume that there are 15 maps and let's put a minimum vale of $50/map, you do the math.
I was being hyperbolic when I said $10k. I thought I put a smiley face there.
I also have a original 1836 JJ Audubon folio of his work in Louisiana with plates intact. Not for sale and barter
How much do you think that is worth? compared to the digital edition from google.
I maybe offering my antiquarian Mason-Dixon Line book with the maps included published by the Pa Historical Society included for trade soon.
It is a shame but I can probably sell one map from that book that would twice the value of what I paid for it.. That is why they tear them apart.
side story?
Just for a follow up and a tale of time long ago and not so very far away, I was doing mark recovery for the NGS in the early 80s as part of a mapping project in Orleans Parish and parishes in proximity.
RThere was one mark on a privately owned old Fort at Bayou Bienvenue.
The old USGS descriptions had tied the mark to certain features of the old fort such as cannon placements etc.
The fort when I was was still standing and still is but sort of in ruins. Most of the cannons were gone stolen or salvaged who knows.
I started making some contacts to see if I could come with any plans fro the old fort.
I was directed to the Jackson Barr racks in New Orleans which was a little compound in the Lower 9th ward that was a NG facility and also used as a correctional facility.
My contact was the librarian named Mr. Dubuisson who was an very elderly man. I met him and told him what I was after and he led me to a large flat file drawer and told me to look ithere.
Meanwhile a trustee of the correctional facility was cleaning and doing some organizing. I got the impression that no one ever went to this library.
Going through the cabinet, I cam across a fairly decent size folio jt had ORIGINAL pen/ink drawings of the fort and other forts in the area by noted topographical engineers.
we are talking late 1700's and early 1800's.
I was stunned. I knew that I was looking at quite at maybe $50k(1980's money) of plans and maps here. Mr. Dubuisoon left for a Drs appointment and the trustee quickly disappeared for a smoke.
I made my notes and left thinking but the thought did creep into my mind that I could have left easily with the folio.
I never found the marker. It must have been taken along with the cannons.
After Katrina, we worked thethe MRGO levee in this area. The fort was hit hard by the surge.
My crew did find an old cannon ball along the shoreline one day. That was pretty cool.
The Jackson Barracks was also destroyed by Katrina. I wonder if the plans survived and hoped tha they were removed after Mr. Dubuisson died and given to Tulane or the historic New Orleans Collection of maybe they made there way back to the West Point library.
Original pen/inks sitting there with a layer of dust, I tell you. I could not believe it.
Check out Steve Estopinal's article in AS. This wasn't the fort but that one is called the Castle. Good fishing spot.
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Ummm, ... it's Dr. Willis nowadays.
He'd probably still consider giving a left something that wouldn't grow back, but he's finished with the academic quest for neat old stuff.
Robert
> I maybe offering my antiquarian Mason-Dixon Line book with the maps included published by the Pa Historical Society included for trade soon.
> It is a shame but I can probably sell one map from that book that would twice the value of what I paid for it.. That is why they tear them apart.
Would that be Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol. XVI (The Breviate in the Boundary Dispute between Pennsylvania and Maryland)?
I have a copy of that book. Two maps are included and it doesn't appear any have been removed. I got it to read before the Surveyors Historical Society Rendezvous on the Mason-Dixon line in 2002. Only made it about half-way through. Some of it is pretty dense.
Rich
I'm gonna be brief hellacious storm here right now.
Report on the Resurvey of the
Maryland-PA Boundary
Part of the Mason- Dixon Line
authorized by the legislatures of Md & PA
Published under the authority of an act of assembly of PA
approved May 13, 1909.
Harrisburg, PA Harrisburg Pb. Co.,State Printer
I blew it in the PA Historical call.
