[Rarebooks] FS: 1858/1865 -Fossil Tracks in New England!

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the
Connecticut Valley, Especially its Fossil Footmarks” [with the]
“Supplement to the Ichnology of New England”

By Edward Hitchcock.
Published in Boston by William White, Printer to the State in 1858, and by
& Wright & Potter in 1865.  Each printing limited to 1000 copies.

DISCUSSION: A classic early study of fossil tracks and footprints, using
examples discovered by the professor and others in the Connecticut River
Valley around Amherst & Hadley.

Edward Hitchcock [1793-1864] was an American geologist, the third
President of Amherst College (1845–1854) and the State Geologist of
Massachusetts. The Amherst College biography of him notes that he “was one
of the founders of American Geology and indeed Geology as a science. He
was the founder of the Association of American Geologists, which was to
give rise to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He
was the first to publish the discovery of tracks in the Connecticut
Valley, tracks he was convinced were made by large flightless birds like
the Ostrich. His work on these tracks was a major early cornerstones in
the field of Ichnology. This work was first published in the very first
volume of The American Journal of Science and Arts(a.k.a Silliman’s
Journal). His crowning achievement was his two volume Ichnology of New
England (1857 and 1864), which also contained one of the first photographs
of fossils ever published. His scientific career spanned 50 years and
profoundly influenced the nascent science of geology.”

As a former pastor, Hitchcock was a proponent of natural theology, which
attempted to unify and reconcile science and religion, and he sought to
re-interpret the Bible to agree with the latest geological theories. The
Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet at the Pratt Museum at Amherst College
contains the largest dinosaur footprint collection in the world.

DESCRIPTION: 2 volumes. 9.5”x12.5”, xii + 220 pages + 60 lithographed
plates, some folding and several hand-tinted [and] x + 96 pages + 13
lithographed plates (some folding) and 7 photographic plates.

CONDITION NOTES: Ex-institutional with bookplates and old spine labels. 
Covers somewhat scuffed, black tape at the top of each spine.  Some
corrosion and splitting to the gutters.  The pages have some light wear
and soil. The plates have blindstamps in the corners, and some of the
folding plates have slight rips or old tape repairs.

PRICE: $1,200-

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