Eaton, Amos; Geological Text-Book Prepared for Popular Lectures on North American Geology; with applications to Agriculture and the Arts (with folded hand-colored geological map of New York). Albany, 1830. Octavo, pp. vii, 63, folded hand-colored geological map of New York State.

The work is complete and in the original cloth and boards with paper title label on cover. Binding is tight with scuffing to boards. Inscribed on fly leaf with signature of first owner Washington Good Lieut. U.S. Army Washington City, 1832. Light foxing to some text signatures, map is clean. In very good condition with rare map present.
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An American geologist and mineralogist; Eaton ( 1776-1842) was with the Renesselaer School from 1824 until his death. His students included many of the pioneers of early American geology and paleontology including James Hall and Ebenezer Emmons. He is best noted for his early attempts to arrange the strata of the United States and for producing the first geological map of the State of New York in 1830 which is present in his textbook. The first published attempt at arranging the strata of the United States was in his 1818 "Index to the Geology of the Northern States" and that was followed in 1824 by his first geological profile extending from Lake Erie to the Atlantic Ocean. The geological map of New York State is the first such map. It measures 18 inches wide by 16 inches high and is quite rare.