Hager Geology Of Vermont

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.
Two quarto (9" x 11-1/2") 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 Library bookplates on front pastedowns marked "Withdrawn," white lettering on the spines, faint ink stamps on the bulked text edges of the second volume; the text and the plates are free of any markings.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..

First Edition, buckram, Very Good with gorgeous views of Vermont..

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Hitchcock, E. and Ch. and A. Hager. Report on the Geology of Vermont:

descriptive, theoretical, economical and scenographical in 2 vols. Claremont, Claremont Manuf. Comp., 1861. Text with 9 handcoloured geological maps (one with 30 different colours! and ofwhich 3 folded), 3 handcoloured geological profiles, 5 lithographs of fossils, 1 lithographed map, 21 nice lithographed views printed in an oval size, in total being 38 plates or maps. Orig. brown blind stamped cloth. *Ward and Carozzi, 1091. Rare early geological monograph on Vermont and rarer than his classic work on Massachusetts in a fine condition.

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