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    Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country / / by Frederick Pursh ; in two volumes ; with twenty-four engravings.
     
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    Pursh, Frederick, 1774-1820.
    Title: 
    Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country / / by Frederick Pursh ; in two volumes ; with twenty-four engravings.
    Publisher: 
    London : Printed for White, Cochrane, and Co., 1814.
    Description: 
    2 v., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
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    Notes: 
    "Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor ... London"--Verso of t.p.'s.
    Paged continuously (xxxvi, 751 p.).
    "Addenda et corrigenda": p. [744]-751.
    Includes indexes.
    Also available online.
    Bibliography Note: 
    "Index auctorum": v. 1, p. [xxvii]-xxxvi.
    Local Note: 
    SCNHRB has five copies.
    SCNHRB c. 1 (39088013480785, 39088013480827) has the plates bound throughout the text, not in numerical order.
    SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Harry Lubrecht; with his pencilled bookseller's markings on the 1st front free endpaper.
    SCNHRB c. 1 bound in recent calf, single gilt rule, title in gilt within red leather spine label, sprinkled edges.
    SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013480868, 39088013480900) stamped on t.p. of v. 1: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [ms. acc. no.] 241939; v. 2 has bookplate: Herbarium ... Parke, Davis & Co. Detroit, Michigan; inscribed in ink on front endpapers: Parke, Davis & Co.
    SCNHRB c. 2, v. 2 has plates hand-colored, occasional pencilled ms. markings.
    SCNHRB c. 2 has [6] p. of publisher's catalog bound-in at end of v. 2.
    SCNHRB c. 2 has v. 1 half bound in black sheepskin and marbled paper boards, v. 2 in green cloth, title in gilt on spine.
    SCNHRB c. 3 (39088013480942, 39088013480983) has bookplate: Library of A.S. Hitchcock and Agnes Chase. Stamped on t.p.'s: A.S. Hitchcock.
    SCNHRB c. 3 stamped on t.p.'s: Smithsonian Libraries Nov 28 1989.
    SCNHRB c. 3 has ink and pencilled ms. notes.
    SCNHRB c. 3 quarter bound sheepskin and green marbled boards, title in gilt on spine.
    SCNHRB c. 4 (39088013481023, 39088013481064) has Smithsonian bookplate with donor name of John Donnell Smith.
    SCNHRB c. 4 inscribed in ink on t.p.'s: ? Knevels.
    SCNHRB c. 4 has stamped on t.p.'s: Smithsonian Institution Special Collections Sep 10 1929.
    SCNHRB c. 4 has pencilled ms. markings, notes and drawings; occasional ink ms. notes in text.
    SCNHRB c. 4 has some on the plates of v. 1 not bound in order.
    SCNHRB c. 4 has [6] p. of publisher's catalog bound-in at end of v. 2.
    SCNHRB c. 4 bound in mottled calf.
    SCNHRB c. 5 (39088013481106, 39088013481148) inscribed in ink on t.p.'s: William Tully's.
    SCNHRB c. 5 has [6] p. of publisher's catalog bound-in at end of v. 2.
    SCNHRB c. 5 bound in old brown library buckram, title in gilt on spine, marbled edges and endpapers.
    Elecresource
    Subject: 
    Botany -- North America.
    Plants -- Catalogs and collections.
    Added Author: 
    Lubrecht, Harry, 1908-1997, donor.
    Hitchcock, A. S. (Albert Spear), 1865-1935, donor.
    Chase, Agnes, 1869-1963, donor.
    Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor.
    Tully, William, 1785-1859, former owner.
    Parke, Davis & Company, former owner.
    Added Title: 
    Flora Americae Septentrionalis
    Systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America
    Binder's title (c. 1): Pursh's Flora of North America
    Catalog Source No.: 
    (OCoLC)ocm01507055
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