first edition Softcover
1859 · [Philadelphia
by LEA, Isaac
[Philadelphia: (Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci, 1859. Softcover. Good. One leaf folded to make four pages. Some chipping at the extremities, slightly browned, a good copy of this rare little pamphlet. In 1858, hobbyist William Parker Foulke was the first to find a nearly complete dinosaur skeleton in Haddonfield, New Jersey. He was accompanied by Joseph Leidy and Isaac Lea from the Academy of Natural Sciences, who he invited along to evaluate the find. *OCLC* locates one copy, at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. (Inventory #: 84157)