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Philadelphia: Robert Desilver, 1827. Third edition, complete, corrected and greatly enlarged, in two volumes (xii, 324, plates, Index; iv, 180, Appendix (1-16), Explanation of Plates (1- 41), plates, Index). Forty engraved plates, some folding. Octavo in full leather, gilt decoration and titles to spines. Covers with a stain or two, worn at the extremities, hinges on volume two cracked but holding; previous owners name and bookplates, endpapers foxed; frontis to volume one offset onto title page, several plates bound at rear moderately offset; moisture tideline through a few pages front and rear of volume two; several pages of preface to the second edition misbound into text of first preface; text generally clean and sound throughout. A later, expanded edition of Bartons botany, the first produced in North America and a model for later botanical works. It was this botany (although not this edition) Lewis and Clark took on their explorations into the American west. Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D., (1766-1815) was professor variously of materia medica, natural history, and botany at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Linnaeen Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, among others. Bartons principal work is Elements of Botany (1804), a later edition of which we offer here, the first botany text published in the U.S. His wide ranging interests in natural history led him to publish a number of monographs and studies, e.g., The Fascinating Quality Ascribed to the Rattlesnake (1796) and New Views of the Origins of Tribes in the United States (1797). Barton acted as advisor on botanical collections to Lewis and Clark and was acquainted with Thomas Jefferson and William Bartram. His nephew William P.C. Barton (1786- 1856) was the author of the important A Flora of North America (1821-1823), for which see our book number 442. Benjamin Smith Bartons Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania (1799) was intended to illustrate... the Natural History of a Country extremely interesting to philosophers and hitherto very imperfectly explored. These fragments, not quite twenty-five pages of field observations, together with introductory speculations about such matters as the range of the Carolina Parrot and the conformity between the vegetation of some plants and the arrival of certain birds of passage suggest a systematic natural history based on local observation, rather like the Christmas bird count. On the other hand, certain passages in Fragments preserve a reliance on classical authority so that natural history is conducted as a literary, historical study of the texts of ancient received opinion, as in this curious note on the origins of bees and the procurement of honey: It appears to have been a very general opinion among the ancients, that bees were produced from the putrid bodies of animals.... The Greeks believed, that these animals arose from putrid bullocks.... So rude were the opinions of the ancients respecting the origin of these insects. It is certain, however, that [according to accounts in the Old Testament and in Virgils Georgics] putrid carcases are often visited by bees, and it is not unlikely that from these carcases, they may be able to procure honey (xi). See our book number 767 for more. Quite a decent copy of an important and surprisingly scarce book.
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London: J. Johnson 1804. 8vo. First UK edition, following the first edition published in the United States in 1803. xii, [ii], 344, 35, plates. 30 hand-coloured plates, including frontis. Contemporary binding of half morocco over marbled boards; gilt lettering and devices to spine. Some rubbing and wear, bumping to corners. Offsetting to ffep. from previous owner's bookplate. Occasional light foxing or marking, though quite clean internally. The American edition was the first book on botany published in America. Barton was Professor of Materia Medica, Natural History and Botany in the University of Pennsylvania when this work was published. Revised and corrected, with the addition of British examples and occasional notes. A very nice example of an important work in the post-Revolution period in the United States. . Very Good. Half Morocco. First UK Edition. 1804.
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Elements of Botany; or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables... By..., Professor of Materia Medica, Natural History, and Botany in the University of Pennsylvania. Refined and Corrected, with Addition of British examples and occasional notes by the English editor
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London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1804.. First British edition. 8vo. xii, (ii), 344, 35, (1) pp. Early beaded cloth, gilt lettered spine label, contemporary owner's initials to the head of the title page. 30 fine handcoloured plates. Some fading and wear to the spine, small split to the head of the lower joint though it is firm, a mostly marginal stain to 12 plates, the rear free endpaper and the pastedown at the fore edge, otherwise a very good unsophisticated copy. The first British edition of this important work - the first US edition of the previous year having been the first work of botany both written by an American and published in America. Neither edition is common in commerce.
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