Oceanography Lit from Google Books

Oceanography Lit from Google Books

Here are oceanography related books from Google Books, most of which were published well before 1930. There's a whole lot of biology, a bit less physics, and not much in the way of geology and chemistry. Some of the books contain beautiful paintings of sea life, and others contain fascinating woodcuts or line drawings. I've attempted to add a representative sampling to make the page a bit shinier. Enjoy.

Herein is my personal catalog of reference and other books of particular interest to me that have been scanned and made available in PDF format via Google Books. They've proved a really marvelous resource, and one which is getting steadily better, larger and more useful. While it's handy and convenient to let them store the things so they'll be at your fingertips whenever you're on the web, a cautionary type might want to download copies of at least the ones of most interest. Google is a corporation, with more rights - thanks to Big Tony and the Supremes - and less responsibilities than these anachronisms we call individuals, and they can do whatever they bloody well want to at any time they want to do it.

This is all here because either I can't figure out how to use the tools Google Books provides to do this, or their tools are insufficient and overly fussy. I'm betting the latter.

Feel free to borrow any or all of this, with the understanding that an attribution will keep the karma dogs off your ass.

On a technical note, I've attempted to extract informative or at least entertaining bits from the prefaces or other parts of some of the books. These will appear in this differently colored format which, thankfully, at least isn't blinking. These extracts may contain extraneous artifacts from Google's OCR rendering of the PDF scans into text that I've been too lazy to fix.

On another technical note, I'll occasionally add reviews, comments, etc. from sources external to the books, which will added in a wee font like this.

On a really annoying technical note, some entries will be shown in blue. These are so indicated because they exist and should - by any reading of copyright law not involving Sonny Bono and DisneyCorp - be available. Their non-availability makes me blue in the Buddy Guy way.

If you feel you must get in touch with me so you can send me mint copies of any or all of the books listed below, then send some electrons to baum@stommel.tamu.edu.

Oceanography

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Bibliotheca Ichthyologica et Piscatoria (1874, 474) - Dirk Mulder Bosgoed

Bibliotheca Piscatoria: A Catalogue of Books on Angling, the Fisheries, and Fish-Culture (1883, 397) - Thomas Westwood, Thomas Satchell, Robert Bright Marston

Descriptive Catalogue of Publications Relating to the U.S. Coat and Geodetic Survey 1807 to 1890 and to U.S. Standard Weights and Measures 1790 to 1890 (1892, 474) - Edward Goodfellow et al.

An Analytical Subject Bibliography of the Publications of the Bureau of Fisheries 1871-1920 (1921, 306) - Rose Mortimer Ellzey MacDonald

MONOGRAPHS ETC.

An Exact Survey of the Tide: Explicating Its Production and Propagation, Variety and Anomaly, in All Parts of the World; Especially Near the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd Ed. (1722, 240) - Edward Barlow

Maritime Geography and Statistics; or, A Description of the Ocean and Its Coasts, Maritime Commerce, Navigation, &c. &c. &c. (1815) - James Hingston Tuckey

Vol. 1 (1815, 536)

Vol. 2 (1815, 599)

Vol. 3 (1815, 566)

Vol. 4 (1815, 760)

Du Mouvement des Ondes et des Travaux Hydrauliques Maritimes (1831, 188) - A. R. Emy

General Conchology; or, A Description of Shells (1835, 253) - William Wood

Exotic Conchology; or, Figures and Descriptions of Rare, Beautiful, or Undescribed Shells, 2nd Ed. (1841, 39) - William Swainson, Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley

An Introduction to Conchology; or, Elements of the Natural History of Molluscous Animals (1850, 614) - George Johnston

A Manual of the Mollusca: A Rudimentary Treatise of Recent and Fossil Shells (1851, 560) - Samuel Peckworth Woodward

A Conchological Manual, 4th Ed. (1852, 337) - George Brettingham Sowerby

Report on the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas (1853, 317) - Thomas Corwin

Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts (1853, 492) - Matthew Fontaine Maury

Index Testaceologicus: An Illustrated Catalogue of British and Foreign Shells (1856, 234) - William Wood, Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley

The Physical Geography of the Sea (1856, 390) - Matthew Fontaine Maury

Illustrated Index of British Shells (1859, 48) - George Brettingham Sowerby

Figures of Molloscous Animals Selected from Various Authors (1859) - Maria Emma Smith Gray

Vol. 1: Plate 1 to 78 (1859)
Vol. 2: Plate 79 to 199 (1859)
Vol. 3: Plate 200 to 312 (1859)
Vol. 4: Explanation of Plates and List of Genera (1859)

General Examination of the Pacific Ocean (1861, 212) - Charles Philippe de Kerhallet, Charles Henry Davis

The Sea (1864, 405) - Jules Michelet

The Harvest of the Sea: A Contribution to the Natural and Economic History of the British Food Fishes (1865, 519) - James Glass Bertram

Manual of Tides and Tidal Currents (1865, 87) - Samuel Haughton

Notions des Anciens sur les Marees et les Euripes (1866, 110) - Thomas Henri Martin

The Elements: An Investigation of the Forces Which Determine the Position and Movements of the Ocean and Atmosphere (1867, 60) - William Leighton Jordan

The Ocean World: Being a Descriptive History of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants (1868, 605) - Louis Figuier

A Treatise on the Action of Vis Inertiae in the Ocean: With Remarks on the Abstract Nature of the Forces of Vis Inertiae and Gravitation, and a New Theory of the Tides (1868, 212) - William Leighton Jordan

The Bottom of the Sea (1870, 402) - Leon Sonrel

The Broad, Broad Ocean and Some of Its Inhabitants (1871, 420) - William Jones

Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries (1873, 712) - Frank Boott Goodrich, Edward Howland

The Ocean: Its Tides and Currents and Their Causes (1873, 344) - William Leighton Jordan

The Depths of the Sea: An Account of the General Results of the Dredging Cruises of H.M.SS. "Porcupine" and "Lightning" During the Summers of 1868, 1869, and 1870 (1874, 527) - Charles Wyville Thompson, William Benjamin Carpenter, John Gwyn Jeffreys

The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Life: Being the Second Series of a Descriptive History of the Life of the Globe (1874, 534) - Elisee Reclus

The Monsters of the Deep: And Curiosities of Ocean Life (1875, 325) - Amand Landrin, William Henry Davenport Adams

The Marine Invertebrates and Fishes of St. Andrews (1875, 186) - William Carmichael McIntosh

Narrative of the North Polar Expedition: U.S. Ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall Commanding (1876, 696) - Charles Francis Hall, Charles Henry Davis

The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship "Challenger": Voyages Over Many Seas, Scenes in Many Lands (1877, 388) - William James Joseph Spry

Thalassa: An Essay on the Depth, Temperature, and Currents of the Ocean (1877, 140) - John James Wild

Remarks on the Recent Oceanic Explorations and the Current-Creating Action of Vis-Inertiae in the Ocean (1877, 47) - William Leighton Jordan

Log Letters from "The Challenger" (1877, 512) - George Granville Campbell

The Voyage of the "Challenger": The Atlantic (1878) - Charles Wyville Thompson

Vol. 1 (1878, 391)
Vol. 2 (1878, 340)

Waves and Vortex Motion (1879, 178) - Thomas Craig

Notes by a Naturalist on the "Challenger": Being an Account of Various Observations Made During the Voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" Round the World, in the Years 1872-1876 (1879, 620) - Henry Nottidge Moseley

American Fisheries: A History of the Menhaden (1880, 529) - George Brown Goode

A Manual of the Mollusca: Being a Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells, 4th Ed. (1880, 627) - Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ralph Tate

An Elementary Treatise on the Tides (1881, 46) - James Pearson, John William Lubbock

The Geography of the Oceans: Physical, Historical, and Descriptive (1881, 246) - John Francon Williams

How the Great Prevailing Winds and Ocean Currents Are Produced: And How They Affect the Temperature and Dimensity of Lands and Seas (1882, 82) - Chalres Austin Mendell Taber

Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the Mollusca (1882) - George Washington Tryon

Vol. 1 (1882, 140)
Vol. 2 (1883, 92)
Vol. 3 (1884, 508)

The Fisheries of the Adriatic and the Fish Thereof (1883, 292) - G. L. Faber

Fish and Fisheries of New South Wales (1883, 213) - Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods

The Commercial Products of the Sea; or, Marine Contributions to Food, Industry, and Art (1883, 484) - Peter Lund Simmonds

Materials for a History of the Mackerel Fishery (1883, 441) - George Brown Goode et al.

Materials for a History of the Swordfish (1883, 98) - George Brown Goode

Handbuch der Oceanographie und Maritimen Meteorologie (1883) - Ferdinand Attlmayr

Vol. 1 (1883, 1-600)
Vol. 2 (1883, 601-995)

The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States (1884-?) - George Brown Goode

Section I: Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals (1884, 136)
Section IV: The Fishermen of the United States (1887, 178)
Section V: History and Methods of the Fisheries (1887, 255)

Handbuch der Ozeanographie (1884) - Georg Heinrich von Boguslawski

Vol. 1: Raumliche, Physikalische und Chemische Beschaffenheit der Ozeane (1884, 592)
Vol. 2: Die Bewengungsformen des Meeres (1887, 592)

Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems (1885, 323) - George John Romanes

The Ocean: A Treatise on Ocean Currents and Tides, and Their Causes, 2nd Ed. (1885, 281) - William Leighton Jordan

A Manual for Tidal Observations, and Their Reduction by the Method of Harmonic Analysis (1886, 54) - Andrew Wilson Baird

The Water World: A Popular Treatise on the Broad, Broad Ocean (1886, 512) - J. Wesley Van Dervoort

Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paleontologie Conchyliologique (1887, 1369) - Paul Henri Fischer

Founding and Development of the U.S. Hydrographic Office (1887, 71) - W. S. Hughes, John Russell Bartlett

Denizens of the Deep: An Account of Fishes, Molluscs, Crustacea, &c. (1887, 160) - Georg Hartwig

Iconographie der Schalentragenden Europaischen Meeresconchylien (1887-1908) - Wilhelm Kobelt

Vol. 1 (1887)
Vol. 2 (1901)
Vol. 3 (1905)
Vol. 4 (1908)

A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer "Blake" in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States from 1877 to 1880 (1888) - Alexander Agassiz