Sowerby Catalogue Volume I : page 490

First Edition. 8vo. in fours. 138 leaves, folded engraved frontispiece.

Sabin 101198.

Bradley I, 317.

Pritzel 9978.

Jefferson obtained a copy of this book immediately after its publication. In a letter to James Madison, written from Paris, January 12, 1789, he mentioned that “ I have just received the Flora Caroliniana of Walter; a very learned and good work.” It is entered on his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 9.

Thomas Walter, 1749-1789, an outstanding figure in early American botany, was a native of Hampshire, England, who emigrated to South Carolina. The book was written in South Carolina, and the manuscript taken by John Fraser, a noted scientist, to London, and there published at his expense. The dedication is to William Pitcairn, and the preface dated from Carolinae Meridialis, ad Ripas Fluvii Santee, 30 Dec. 1787.

John Fraser, 1750-1811, Scottish botanist living in London, made several visits to North America in search of new species. He also made visits to Russia for the same purpose. Fraser was a fellow of the Linnean Society, to which his herbarium was later given by his son.

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Marshall’s American grove. 8 ^vo.

1815 Catalogue, page 48. no. 19, as above.

MARSHALL, Humphry.

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 . . . Compiled from actual knowledge and observation and the assistance of botanical authors, by Humphry Marshall. Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, 1785.

QK481 .M3

First Edition. 8vo. 98 leaves, Y _i verso has the author’s advertisement.

Sabin 44776.

Evans 19068.

Pritzel 6535.

Humphry Marshall, 1722-1801, botanist, was a native of Pennsylvania, and a cousin of John Bartram. This work was dedicated to Benjamin Franklin, President, the Vice-Presidents and the other members of the American Philosophical Society, of which Marshall was a member.

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Tracts in Botany. viz. }

Marshall’s American grove }

Explication du systeme botanique de Linné. par Gouan. } 8 ^vo.

Kennedy & Lee’s catalogue of plants & seeds }

1815 Catalogue, page 48. no. 26, Tracts in Botany, Marshal, Gouan, Kennedy and Lee, 8vo.

Three tracts originally bound for Jefferson in one volume. 8vo.

i. Marshall’s American grove. See the previous entry.

Explication du systeme botanique de Linné. par Gouan.

ii. GOUAN, Antoine.

Explication du Système botanique du Chevalier von Linné par M. Gouan . . . Montpellier: J. F. Picot, 1787.

First Edition. 8vo.

Pritzel 3798.

Bradley I, 254.

Antoine Gouan, 1733-1821, French botanist. He was in correspondence with Jefferson to whom he sent seeds and plants from Montpellier.

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