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RESOURCES OF THE SOUTHERN FIELDS AND FORESTS, MEDICAL, ECONOMICAL AND AGRICULTURAL; BEING ALSO A MEDICAL BOTANY OF THE SOUTHERN STATES; WITH PRACTICAL INFORMATION ON THE USEFUL PROPERTIES OF THE TREES, PLANTS, AND SHRUBSby Porcher, Francis Peyre
Charleston: Walker, Evans: & Cogswell, Printers,. 1869.. xv,733,[44] pp. . Second and best edition, revised and greatly enlarged. Original one-half leather with cloth boards, small rubber library stamp on title page; few other very brief markings. A very good copy in the seldom seen deluxe binding. HARWELL: IN TALL COTTON, 150: "This is probably the most ambitious and important work produced in the Confederacy. West & Johnston advertised it in 1864: 'This is in reality, one of the most splendidly useful Books ever printed in America. What Audubon did for our ornithology, that Dr. Porcher has done for our vegetable kingdom. His is, indeed, a great Work; and no chemist, farmer, doctor or educated gentleman, who would know the graces of God to this favored Confederacy, can well dispense with it.' Richmond's THE SOUTHERN ILLUSTRATED NEWS declared: 'We incline to the opinion that a more useful work has never been issued from the American press.' (April 18, 1863). An edition was published by West & Johnston in Richmond in 1863. Evans & Cogswell put out a new edition in Charleston in 1869 [offered here], one that appears even rarer than its Confederate predecessors." HOWES P-4 82. NEVINS II, 199.
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