Sketch of the Scenery of Massachusetts

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4to., (11 x 8 4/8 inches). Lithographed frontispiece, one large folding panorama and 12 plates all after Mrs. Orra Hitchcock, wood-engraved vignettes in the text, one with later hand-colour (text spotted throughout). Original publisher s brown cloth, gilt (backstrip split and chipped with minor loss, front inner hinge cracked). Provenance: The Dr. Frank H. Sommer III Trust, his sale Doyle New York, November 25th, 2013 lot 318 First separate edition. A renowned geologist, Hitchcock s "Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology of Massachusetts" (1833) was the first of the state geological reports to be completed, and it became the standard. This "Scenographical Geology" was first published as part of that report. "I have supposed that my account of the Geology of the State would be quite imperfect, without some notice of our Scenery. Strictly speaking, indeed, scenery is not geology: and yet the contour of a country owes its peculiarities in a great measure to the character of the rocks found beneath the soil: so that the geologist, by a mere inspection of the features of the landscape, can form a very probable opinion of the nature of the rock formations." (page [3]). Sabin 32249. Catalogued by Kate Hunter. N° de ref. del artículo 72lib1137

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