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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Bartram, William) |
| Author: |
Ewan, Joseph, ed. |
| Title: |
William Bartram: Botanical and Zoological Drawings, 1756-1788. Reproduced from the Fothergill Album in the British Museum (Natural History) |
| Place: |
Philadelphia |
| Publisher: |
The American Philosophical Society |
| Date: |
1968 |
| Item # : |
118682 |
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| Sale Number |
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246 |
| Lot Number |
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26 |
| Sale Name |
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| Books in All Fields with Mineralogy, Modern Literature and OZiana |
| Sale Date |
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08/15/2002 |
| Price realized |
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$ 92 |
| (Includes 20% Buyer's Premium) |
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| Description: |
| x, [2], 180 pp. Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Joseph Ewan. Illustrated with 59 plates, 19 of which are in color. (Folio) 15½x11¼, green cloth, lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition. |
| William Bartram of Philadelphia (1739-1823), was the first American-born artist-naturalist. From 1766 to 1776 he was commissioned by Dr. John Fothergill of London to tour the southern colonies, collecting seeds and plants for the Doctor's botanical garden. Includes a staplebound article from Antiques magazine "Bartram's Garden in Philadelphia" by D. Roger Mower, Jr., and is signed by Mower, Jr. |
| Condition: |
| Jacket price clipped, a few light impressions to covers, else fine in fine jacket with publisher's original cardboard box. |
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