Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 245

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
WARREN, JOHN COLLINS. Remarks on Some Fossil Impressions in the Sandstone Rocks of the Connecticut River. Folding salt print frontispiece showing rock with fossil remains. 54 pages. 8vo, 231x140 mm, original gilt-lettered blue cloth, spine slightly darkened and discolored, recased, endpapers skillfully renewed; contents clean, but small piece torn from inner margin of frontispiece with slight image loss. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854

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first edition of the first American scientific publication illustrated with a photograph, and only the second photographically illustrated book to appear in the United States after Homes of American Statesmen, which was published earlier the same year. The Truthful Lens 181.