Fragments of the natural history of Pennsylvania. By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. Correspondent-member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; member of the American Philosophical Society; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston; corresponding membe of the Massachusetts Historical Society; member of the Physical Society of Jena; one of the foreign members of the Linnaean Society of London; and professor of materia medica, natural history and botany, in the University of Pennsylvania, Part first. [Two lines of Latin quotations]

People / Organizations

• Benjamin Smith Barton (Author)

Imprint

Philadelphia: Printed, for the author, by Way & Groff, no. 48, North Third-Street, 1799.

Publication year

1799-1799

ESTC No.

W20334

Grub Street ID

329998

Description

xviii, 24 p. ; 2⁰

Note

No more published. Part 1 treats of birds, with data regarding vegetation and miscellaneous observations.

Wolf notes a later state in which leaf C2, printed as a cancellans, contains updated material. Cf. Wolf, Edwin. "Historical grist for the bibliographical mill," Studies in Bibliography 25 (1972): 33.

Errata statement, p. xviii.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: [A]? B-D? E? (-E2)? A-F?