Sale 2501 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 7, 2019

245 245 c   WARREN, JOHN COLLINS. Remarks on Some Fossil Impressions in the Sandstone Rocks of the Connecticut River. Folding salt print frontispiece showing rock with fossil remains. 54 pages. 8vo, 231x140 mm, original gilt-lettered blue cloth, spine slightly darkened and discolored; contents clean, but small piece torn from inner margin of frontispiece with slight image loss. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854 [400/600] first edition of the first American scientific publication illustrated with a photograph, and only the second photographically illustrated book to appear in the United States after Homes of American Statesmen, which was published earlier the same year. The Truthful Lens 181. 246 246 c   (SCOTLAND.) Blind Hary or Harry, aka Henry the Minstrel. The Acts and Deeds of the most Famous and Valiant Champion, Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie . . . Together with Arnaldi Blair Relationes. [2], 403, [1]; 79 pages. 2 parts in one volume, mostly printed in black letter. 4to, 213x162, mm, contemporary sprinkled sheep, covers rubbed, corners worn through, rebacked, hinges reinforced; contents browned with scattered spotting, clean tear in corner of 5T2. 18th-century armorial bookplate of Alexander Speirs Esq. of Elderslie. Edinburgh: Printed in theYear 1758 [300/500] Later edition of a 15th-century verse epic on the life and exploits of the Scottish patriot and national heroWallace (1270-1305).