On the Cyclones or Typhoons of the North Pacific Ocean; with a Chart, Showing their Courses of Progression.
[New Haven: July 1857.
Price: $650.00
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Separately-issued offprint from the American Journal of Science and Arts, 2nd series, Vol. xxiv, July 1857. [21]-38 pp., plus folding map. 8vo. Period plain green wrappers, stitched. Sabin 68512. Not in Forbes.
Item #324349
"[Redfield's] last contribution to meteorological science was a memoir upon the cyclones or typhoons of the north Pacific Ocean, prepared at the request of Commodore Perry, to accompany his Narrative of the United States Expedition to Japan; and was printed in the second volume of that work ... [H]e showed that the hurricanes of the Pacific followed the same general laws as those of the Atlantic, and traced the paths of several remarkable storms, among which was one of great force encountered by the steamer 'Mississippi,' one of the vessels of Commodore Perry's squadron, [on route from Simoda to the Sandwich Islands in October 1854]" (Recollections of John Howard Redfield, p. 302). Page 37 includes a description of the Kona, or southerly winds of Hawaii, as well as the effects of cyclones on the Hawaiian islands.
Following its publication within Perry's Narrative in 1856, the work was issued in a slightly more condensed form within the July 1857 issue of the American Journal of Science and Arts. The present separately-issued offprint from the AJSA is the only separately-issued edition of the work. Scarce.
