AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Transactions, Philadelphia: 1789-86-1818, volumes I-VI and volume I, new series, 4°, second edition of volume I, 63 engraved plates and maps, 33 folding, including hand-coloured geological map of the United States in final volume, folding letterpress tables (several titles detached, titles to vols. III and VI tipped onto front blank, some offsetting, some browning and spotting, severe in places, institutional markings, including perforation to titles and occasionally in text, and stamps to plate versos), later half morocco (worn). [Blake p. 13 (volumes I-II only); Sabin 1181 & 1182] Provenance: Manuscript astronomical observations at end of the early volumes and occasional corrections to text in a contemporary hand; Brooks (signature on title to vol. VI); JCL. Sold as a journal not subject to return. (7)

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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Transactions, Philadelphia: 1789-86-1818, volumes I-VI and volume I, new series, 4°, second edition of volume I, 63 engraved plates and maps, 33 folding, including hand-coloured geological map of the United States in final volume, folding letterpress tables (several titles detached, titles to vols. III and VI tipped onto front blank, some offsetting, some browning and spotting, severe in places, institutional markings, including perforation to titles and occasionally in text, and stamps to plate versos), later half morocco (worn). [Blake p. 13 (volumes I-II only); Sabin 1181 & 1182] Provenance: Manuscript astronomical observations at end of the early volumes and occasional corrections to text in a contemporary hand; Brooks (signature on title to vol. VI); JCL. Sold as a journal not subject to return. (7)

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Covers a wide variety of agricultural and geographical, as well as scientific and medical topics. Included among the papers are Edward Antill's important "Essay on the cultivation of the vine, and the making and preserving of wine, suited to the different climates in North America" (I, pp. 180-262), Benjamin Rush's "Enquiry into the nature, cause and cure of the angina suffocativa, or sore throat distemper" (I, pp. 388-404) and his "Observations on the cause and cure of the tetanus" (II, pp. 225-231), William Dunbar's "The Mississipi and its delta" (VI, pp. 165-187) and Benjamin Franklin's "Letter to Dr. Ingenhauzz concerning chimneys" (II, pp. 1-36) from which the above illustration is taken.

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