Springs Of Texas. Volume I

GUNNAR BRUNE

Publication: Branch-Smith, Inc,1981, Fort Worth

First edition. This is Volume I and the only volume published to date. Thick quarto. Cloth, maps on endpapers, xviii, 566 pp., acknowledgments, purpose and scope, illustrated, charts, maps, tables, color plates, glossary of terms, selected references, table of selected chemical analyses of spring waters, index.

“A classic work of Texas natural history that provides the only thorough treatment of more than 2,900 springs in 183 Texas counties. The book also includes an in-depth discussion of the general characteristics of springs...” A Story of Texas Springs, both past and present, and what is happening to them. Encyclopedic work on what is happening to the springs of Texas and why, and to depict what is left of the fast-fading natural, beautiful environment in which man and his fellow animals and plants evolved, before it is destroyed by pollution and over-population. Contains the supplement of nine maps which is usually missing.

Lightly sunned on the spine, else a very good copy.