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Author: Whitney, Josiah Dwight
Title: The Metallic Wealth of The United States
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
Date Published: 1854
Description:

[v]-xxxii, 33-510 pp. 3 lithograph plates, other illustrations in text. (8vo) original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896) was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860-1874). Through his travels and studies in the principal mining regions of the United States, Whitney became the foremost authority of his day on the economic geology of the U.S. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, and the Whitney Glacier, the first confirmed glacier in the United States, on Mount Shasta, were both named after him by members of the Survey. Institutional plate from Brigham Young University on pastedown, early ownership marks on front free endpaper.

Spine sunned somewhat with a few abrasions, some rubbing to edges and corners; minor ripple to leaves; very good overall.