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xii, 831 pp. With 51 lithographed plates, 8 of them folding; 2 lithographed maps, 1 of them hand-colored; 2 folding lithographed sections. 11½x8¾, modern ¾ cloth & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt; bound by John Sinkankas, stamped with his initials.

Large, thorough work, the culmination of Hitchcock's studies of Massachusetts. The large folding hand-colored geological map which serves as the frontispiece is quite striking (it has a repaired tear), and the other plates include 14 vuiews of the mountains, rivers, and other features of the state, fossils, etc.