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MARSHALL, Humphry (1722-1801). Arbustrum americanum: the American Grove, or, an Alphabetical Catalogue of Forest Trees and Shrubs, Natives of the American United States, arranged according to the Linnaean system. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1785.
8o (198 x 119 mm). Collation: a-b4 c2 A-Y4 (-Y4 blank). 97 (of 98) leaves. (Title-page browned and soiled with a few tiny chips.) Disbound, cloth slipcase.
FIRST EDITION. Marshall was a cousin of the American botanist John Bartram. His Arbustrum americanum publicized many of Bartram's discoveries from the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. "His botanical garden, the second established in colonial Pennsylvania, boasted a noteworthy collection of native plants, and he contributed materially to the exportation of American plants to England and the Continent" (Norman). William Darlington, his biographer, called this work "the first truly indigenous Botanical Essay published in the Western Hemisphere" (DAB). Evans 19068; Hunt 674; Pritzel 5834; Sabin 44776; Norman 1444.
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STEARNS, Samuel (1741-1809). The North-American's Almanack, and Gentleman's and Lady's Diary, for ... 1776. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas and Cambridge: S. & E. Hall, [1775]. 8o (164 x 91 mm). (Some browning, a few marginal chips on last leaf.) Disbound. FIRST EDITION, contains an eyewitness account of the Balle of Lexington by the Rev. Wm. Gordon (possibly a pseudonym for Stearns). It also includes "Directions for preserving the health of the soldiers in the camps," and a receipt for the cure of dysentery. Drake 3260; Evans 14473; Norman 2007. -- Samuel STEARNS. The American Herbal, or materia medica. Walpole [N.H.], David Carlisle for Thomas & Thomas, and the author, 1801. 12o (179 x 101 mm). (Some browning and staining.) Modern leather. FIRST EDITION of the "first herbal both produced and printed in the United States" (Norman). It also includes some American Indian remedies. Austin 1818; Garrison-Morton 1838.2; Norman 2008. (3)
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FIRST EDITION. Marshall was a cousin of the American botanist John Bartram. His Arbustrum americanum publicized many of Bartram's discoveries from the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. "His botanical garden, the second established in colonial Pennsylvania, boasted a noteworthy collection of native plants, and he contributed materially to the exportation of American plants to England and the Continent" (Norman). William Darlington, his biographer, called this work "the first truly indigenous Botanical Essay published in the Western Hemisphere" (DAB). Evans 19068; Hunt 674; Pritzel 5834; Sabin 44776; Norman 1444.
[With:]
STEARNS, Samuel (1741-1809). The North-American's Almanack, and Gentleman's and Lady's Diary, for ... 1776. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas and Cambridge: S. & E. Hall, [1775]. 8