Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Cart Totals

Promo Code:	– $0.00
Subtotal:	$7,932.00
Shipping:	$26.00
	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$7,958.00
Change Currency:

Contact

Email Address

Re-type Email Address

Shipping

Expedited shipping $43.99 2 - 8 days

Standard Shipping $26.00 5 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note

Payment

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Please select your payment method from the following list:

PayPal
Credit or Debit Card
Express Wallet

Click the button to checkout with PayPal.

You will be charged $7,958.00 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal:	$7,932.00
Shipping:	$26.00
:	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$7,958.00
Change Currency:

You are about to purchase:

REMARKS ON SOME FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS IN THE SANDSTONE ROCKS OF CONNECTICUT RIVER by Warren, John C.; [Silsbee, George M.]

5 to 10 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: FREE

Details

$7,500.00

( US$)

Seller: Type Punch Matrix

Title: REMARKS ON SOME FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS IN THE SANDSTONE ROCKS OF CONNECTICUT RIVER
Author: Warren, John C.; [Silsbee, George M.]
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good plus.
Description: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. Very good plus.. First edition of the first American scientific book illustrated with a photograph, an exploration of fossilized dinosaur tracks (what Warren calls "footsteps of an unknown animal") inscribed to fellow surgeon and Benjamin Franklin's great-grandson, Franklin Bache. Scientists struggled valiantly against the imperfect illustration methods of woodcut, engraving, etching, and lithography for centuries. But the 19th century brought a new technology for representing subjects with more accuracy than ever before: photography. REMARKS ON SOME FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS IN THE SANDSTONE ROCKS OF CONNECTICUT RIVER is only the second book produced in the United States to include a photographic illustration, and the first US scientific publication to do so. In the medical field, John C. Warren is best known as the Harvard surgeon who performed the first publicly demonstrated procedure on an ether-anesthetized patient in 1845. It was clear then that Warren understood the importance of photography: after the event, he organized a reenactment of the procedure to be immortalized in daguerreotype by Boston photographers Southworth and Hawes. Warren's interest in photography intersected with his interest in natural history in the form of REMARKS ON SOME FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS IN THE SANDSTONE ROCKS OF CONNECTICUT RIVER, which features a salt-printed photograph of a rock slab of fossilized animal tracks. This monograph discusses other fossils, but the most notable section of the book details the slab. Bird and turtle tracks are among the footprints found preserved in the rock, but they are accompanied by prints that were far more puzzling. Warren theorized that these "footsteps of an unknown animal" may be those of "probably a reptile or a mammal," but he concluded that "perhaps it is safer to believe... that it was an animal of a construction now not existing." Indeed, the footprints were later proven to belong to dinosaurs of the Early Jurassic. Warren inscribed this copy of REMARKS ON SOME FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS to fellow surgeon Franklin Bache, the great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Other inscribed copies are held by the Smithsonian Libraries and the Berkshire Athenaeum, but rarely appear on the market. A significant copy of an important work - not only the first American scientific book with an original photograph, but just the second overall. 9.25'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to front board. Yellow endpapers. Folded photographic salt-printed frontispiece of fossil footprints. Two in-text black-and-white illustrations. 54 pages. Inscribed by Warren to Franklin Bache, M. D., to front flyleaf. Binding with mild edgewear, spine ends bumped; a couple tiny spots of soil to boards. Leaves with occasional pinpoint foxing. Clean and bright.

A ROUND OF STORIES by The Christmas Fire by Dickens, Charles

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $16.50

Details

$225.00

( US$)

Seller: Sumner & Stillman

Title: A ROUND OF STORIES by The Christmas Fire
Author: Dickens, Charles
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1853. New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1853. Original greyish-pink printed wrappers. Early (first?) American edition of this the third of Dickens's nine "Extra Christmas Numbers" of his weekly periodical Household Words. This came out in London in December 1852, and then was published in America in early 1853 by several publishers (McElrath & Lord doing the authorized American issue of HhW, plus Harper, plus this effort). Dickens himself wrote only the first two stories -- "The Poor Relation's Story" and "The Child's Story." This copy includes the delicate original greyish-pink wrappers, and is in very good-plus condition (minor edge-wear, a few droplet-marks on some leaves within). Podeschi (Yale) B225.

The ROYAL CONFECTIONER: English and Foreign by Francatelli, Charles Elme

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $4.00

Details

$175.00

( US$)

Seller: lizzyoung bookseller

Title: The ROYAL CONFECTIONER: English and Foreign
Author: Francatelli, Charles Elme
Seller: lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition: Maroon embossed covers, decorations in gilt. Good
Description: London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. Second Edition. Hardcover. Maroon embossed covers, decorations in gilt. Good. 422 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. Chromolithograph frontispiece of a wedding cake, with tissue. Five wood engraved plates, and eight chromolithograph plates. Francatelli was a renowned chef who served as the maître d'hôtel and chief cook to Queen Victoria. The Royal Confectioner focuses on the art of confectionery and dessert-making in the 19th century. "Comprising Ornamental Confectionary Artistically Developed; Different Methods of Preserving Fruits, Fruit Pulps, and Juices in Bottles, The Preparation of james and Jellies, Fruit, and Other Syrups, Summer Beverages, and a Great Variety of National Drinks; with Directions for Making Dessert Cakes, Plain and Fancy Bread, Candies, Bonbons, Candies, Comfits, Spirituous Essences, and Cordials. Also, The Art of Ice-Making, and The Arrangement and General Economy of Fashionable Desserts." Interior clean, boards rubbed, especially at spine. Hinges cracked but holding. [BITTING 164] [CAGLE 688 - first edition] [AXFORD 352 - first edition].

Dating Big Bird by ZIGMAN, Laura

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $5.50

Details

$32.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

Title: Dating Big Bird
Author: ZIGMAN, Laura
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780385333405
Condition: Fine
Description: (New York): The Dial Press, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.

Secure Checkout