[Rarebooks] For Sale: Maclure's Geology of the USA, 1817

[Norman Kane]

MACLURE, WILLIAM.   OBSERVATIONS ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES 
OF AMERICA; WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE EFFECT PRODUCED ON THE NATURE 
AND FERTILITY OF SOILS, BY THE DECOMPOSITION OF THE DIFFERENT CLASSES 
OF ROCKS . . .
Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, by Abraham Small, & sold by him 
and J. Melish, 1817.   First edition.  Octavo, later marbled 
wrappers, 127, [2] pages.  Folding color map (the first geological 
map of the USA) & color folding plate.  (Map with a few paper repairs 
on verso, one small marginal defect.)  New USiana M 160 (dd).  $1450.00

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