[Rarebooks] FS: Hitchcock's Report on the Geology of Vermont, 1861, with 38 plates & maps, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $350 NET

HITCHCOCK, Edward; HITCHCOCK, Edward, Jr.; HAGER, Albert; HITCHCOCK, 
Charles. REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF VERMONT: DESCRIPTIVE, THEORETICAL, 
ECONOMICAL, AND SCENOGRAPHICAL. Claremont, NH: Claremont Manufacturing 
Co., 1861. First Edition. Two quarto (9" x 11-1/2") volumes bound in 
library buckram, one in black and the other in brown. Illustrated with 
38 plates and maps at the end of the second volume and 365 woodcuts in 
the text. A notable Vermont plate book with 20 spectacular lithographs 
of Vermont scenes, towns, resorts, etc. along with the large folding 
hand-colored Vermont map, geological maps, and fossil plates. The views 
were based on original drawings by A. L. Rowson, J. K. Rathbun, and Miss 
Hattie E. Reed and on photographs by C. Miller, A. F. Sykes, and C. I. 
Howe. They include Bellows Falls, Willoughby Lake, Summit House, 
Sutherland Falls, Moss Glen Falls in Stowe, Brattleboro, several of 
Manchester, etc. Library bookplates on front pastedowns marked 
"Withdrawn," white lettering on the spines, faint ink stamps on the 
bulked text edges of the second volume; the text and the plates are free 
of any markings. Slight aging to the paper; one map with clean tear and 
separation; other minor tears here and there to the text. Very Good with 
gorgeous views of Vermont. (#013801)        $500.00

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