Remarks on Some Fossil Impressions in the Sandstone Rocks of the Connecticut River THE SECOND EARLIEST AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOK

by John C. Warren, George M. Silsbee, photograph by

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First edition

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, and the first American scientific

• Binding: Hardcover

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