Outline of a Course of Geological Lectures, Given in Yale College

New Haven: H Howe, 1829. First Edition.. Original paste paper boards. . Very good internally; later paper backstrip glued to boards; front board loose; personal blind stamp of ownership to a blank portion of the title.. 8vo, [2], [3] - 128 pp.

A book of some importance if only because its author was a central figure in early American science. Silliman taught at Yale and established that institution as a training center for studies in chemistry, geology, and mineralogy. These lectures were also appended to the editions of Bakewell's Geology that Silliman edited. The separate issue, offered here, preceding the Bakewell appearances, is a most difficult book to find in the trade. Absent from Rink; see Merrill; see DSB.