(NATURAL HISTORY) Pursh Frederick Flora Americae Septentrion

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(NATURAL HISTORY.) Pursh, Frederick. Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, A Systematic Arrangement and Description of the Plants of North America. 24 hand-colored plates. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, moderate wear, rebacked in cloth; intermittent foxing to text leaves in Volume II, partially-erased ink stamps on first title page and 2 plates, a few pencil notes in margins, some plates slightly cropped; early owners' pencil signatures on title pages. London, 1814

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first edition of the first complete flora of America north of Mexico, by a German naturalist and explorer who emigrated to the United States. The preface contains an interesting account of American gardens and herbaria visited by the author while compiling this work, as well as of his acquaintance with Meriwether Lewis, who provided Pursh with specimens gathered during the Lewis and Clark expedition. 13 of the plates are drawn from Lewis specimens. This was the first scientific work to draw heavily on the expedition's research. Provenance: James Jackson (signatures on title pages); Cincinnati botanist Thomas G. Lea (1841 inscription on second title page). Erickson, Lewis & Clark 6a and pages 207-8; Nissen 1570; Sabin 66728.