Barton Benjamin Smith 1766 1815 (34 results)

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Condition: Vewry good. - Quarto, 10-3/4 inches high by 9 inches wide. Softcover. unbound sheets from the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society". 35 pages, with large untrimmed margins, consisting of pages 181-215. There is offsetting to the cover page and the deckle-edged pages have been roughly opened. Very good. "From the obvious antiquity of the tumulus in which they were found; from their general fabric, or appearance, and from the materials out of which some of them are formed, it must, at first sight, seem very improbable, that these articles are the work of any people in the state of society and improvement of the Indian[s].of North-America, that are now known to us. These nations.actually rank higher than many of the ancient and modern nations of the old-world.[A]re there no proofs that the rude nations of America have fallen from a more respectable form of society than that in which we now contemplate them? It appears to me that there are. These proofs are even numerous.In the following inquiry, I shall offer some of my reasons for believing that there formerly existed in many parts of North-America, a race of people, who, whilst they were more numerous, had made much greater advances in the arts, and in improvement, than the present races of Indians, or than their ancestors since our actual acquaintance with them." "The vestiges to which I allude are of various kinds. They are principally, however, mounds of earth of different forms and sizes; some of them, undoubtedly, depositories of human bones; whilst others appear to have been constructed as the bases of temples, that were erected during the extensive reign of an hideous superstition in America. Others, again, and these are the principal, appear to have been intended as fortifications, or the walls of large towns."Benjamin Smith Barton, 1766-1815, was an American botanist and physician. He was one of the first professors of natural history in the United States. He had a lifelong interest in Native Americans who in large part are the subject of this paper. Barton was also an advisor to the Lewis and Clark expedition. He was the first to erect a greenhouse in Philadelphia.…

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1st Edition. "Folio (13 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.; 35 x 24.1 cm). Minor spotting; rebacked in modern half calf, retaining contemporary boards and corner pieces. FIRST EDITION, while described on the title-page as "Part First," no second volume was ever published. Although lacking illustrations, the careful observation of the migration of birds made this "one of the most notable special treatises on North American ornithology of the last century " (Coues). "The versatile author of this work was a professor in the University of Pennsylvania. It is recorded of him that he was instructed in drawing by Major André while the latter was a prisoner of war at Lancaster" (Church 1284). The present example has points indicating a later state of the first edition with: "always" on p. xvi, paragraph XXXVI, and Certhia fusca as the last entry on p. 11. REFERENCES: Church 1284; Coues, American Ornithological Bibliography 1:592; Evans 35159; MacPhail, Benjamin Smith Barton 2; Sabin 3809; Wood, p. 224 PROVENANCE: Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh (inscription on title-page "Ex Libris Societatis Medicae Edinensis"); Bonham's New York, 23 October 2019, lot 181 ($2,550). 6.4B.3E".…