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DRAKE, Daniel (1785-1852). Natural and Statistical View, or Picture of Cincinnati and the Miami Country. Cincinnati: Looker and Wallace, 1815. 12°. 2 folding engraved maps by Seymour after Danby (one a little spotted). Original printed boards, uncut (spine extensively and neatly repaired). Provenance: the Haskell F. Norman copy (book-label).
FIRST EDITION of 'the first organised study of the geology of western Ohio and eastern Indiana, describing the elephant fossils of Big Bone Lick and giving the first suggestion made in America of the connection between granite erratics and ice', Hook & Norman 655. Sabin 20822.
FIRST EDITION of 'the first organised study of the geology of western Ohio and eastern Indiana, describing the elephant fossils of Big Bone Lick and giving the first suggestion made in America of the connection between granite erratics and ice', Hook & Norman 655. Sabin 20822.
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