(NATURAL HISTORY) Humphrey Marshall Arbustrum Americanum The

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(NATURAL HISTORY.) Humphrey Marshall. Arbustrum Americanum: The American Grove, or, An Alphabetical Catalogue of Forest Trees and Shrubs, Natives of the American United States. xx, 174 pages plus final blank leaf. 8vo, disbound; moderate foxing, minor wear; early owner's signature on title page by Pennsylvania physician and Revolutionary War veteran Reading Beatty. Philadelphia, 1785

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"The first truly indigenous botanical essay published in this Western Hemisphere"--Darlington, Memorials of John Bartram and Humphrey Marshall, 489. Alphabetically arranged, with detailed Linnean descriptions. Dedicated to Benjamin Franklin. Evans 19068; Hunt Botanical II:674; Sabin 44776.