A Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury, U.S.N. and C.S.N

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Limited, St. Dunstan's House, 1888. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Front hinge just beginning to weaken, tiny spot on top edge. 1888 Hard Cover. vi, 326 pp. 8vo. A biography of the man called "Pathfinder of the Seas" and "Father of Modern Oceanography and Naval Meteorology" and later, "Scientist of the Seas," whose work The Physical Geography of the Sea was an influential early work in oceanography. A Virginian, Maury, fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, during which time he developed the first electrically controlled naval mine.