Remarks on Some Fossil Impressions in the Sandstone Rocks of the Connecticut River [THE SECOND EARLIEST AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOK]
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. Thin small quarto. 54pp. Period decorative blue cloth boards, with debossed blind-stamped motifs on the covers, and gilt lettering on the front. Photographic frontispiece (fold-out, measuring 8x9"). This historically significant work is considered only the second American publication to be photographically illustrated..... More