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"Dear Sir, I received very safe the volumes of the Hortus .I believe I informed you that the four volumes were formerly the property of Dr. Tancred Robinson at whose sale I purchased them. I thank you for the specimens of plants you sent me. The Museus Arboreus is very curious, a considerable quantity of the North Amercan Oxycoccus was brought to me two years since as Maidenhair by Mr Phipps who was with Mr Bankes at Labrador. I told Mr Phipps of this mistake at the time. Of the Labrador Mr Bankes likewise brought some fine specimens in flower. It grows upon Newfoundland, Labrador & in the neighbourhood of Hudsons bay in great plenty where it is used by the natives & inhabitants both as a grateful liquor & as a medicine in.rheumatic cases. A quantity of it was given me by Capt. Middleton who went to discover the North West passage near thirty years since.It thrives very well here & Dr. Fothergill has besides others a very large plant of it now in fruit which I saw & examined last week. Dr Pitcairn has likewise a plant of it growing in his garden at Islington. It is not only in your neighbourhood but here in London that great quantities of the spurious North American sarsparilla are sold for the true." and continues by discussing the origins of various types of sarsa, and continues ".I have not yet sent for the new edition of Haller as my various necessary engagements leave me scarce time for study though I always rise early. I shall take an early opportunity of examining it as I was much pleased & informed by the first. Besides being a physiologist, anatomist & botanist Baron Haller is a first rate German poet.Sir Joshua Pringle & Dr. Franklin set out in a few days for Switzerland wherein a visit to Baron Haller is not an inconsiderable object. I should not be sorry to make a third in this expedition. . I have seen Mr Cribb with whom I have already had two patients. One . I only saw when he was dying of an Opisthotonos as for some hours before I saw him he had not been able to swallow any thing. Mr Cribb was suspicious of the Hydrophobia but I know the disease though I had never seen it before.I .believed it must be owing to some wounded nervous tendinous part. Upon enquiring it was found that about a week before he had cut the nail of one of his fingers through with a chissel & that the end of this divided nail had by being improperly managed pressed upon the tender parts underneath. The patient was well & abroad on Friday & dyed on Sunday morning." etc. He finishes by describing the progress of his son's medical training "at Spa.there are a great many English there .he is exceedingly well received." . 3 1/2 sides folio. Usual folds with address panel "To Dr. Pulteney, F.R.S. Physician, at Blandford". Several splits on folds but with no loss. A rare autograph.
By Richard Pulteney (1730-1801). With additions; and a brief memoir of the author [by Thomas Rackett (1757-1841)]. Catalogues of the birds, shells, and some of the more rare plants of Dorsetshire. With additions; and a brief memoir of the author. Illustrated with plates. Printed by Nichols, Son, and Bentley. London 1813. Collation: pp. I-II, 1 leaf (1 engraved portrait: "Portrait of Richard Pulteney, M. D."), pp. III-IV, pp. 1-106, 1 leaf (1 engraved plate: "Melbury Fossils"), pp. 107-110, 12 leaves (with 23 engraved plates: "Twenty-three Plates of Shells"). The text pages are printed in double columns. Recent black half leather with leather corners and recent marbled endpapers. Gold embossed title on spine. Contemporary gilt edges on three sides. Folio (400 mm x 250 mm). Condition: In the second edition there were errors in the pagination of some copies, namely on pp. 53-68, which were corrected with printed overstickers. As a result, the leaves in question were occasionally glued together. Later, small holes appeared when these adhesions were removed. In the present work, this happened to 4 leaves (pp. 53/54, 57/58, 59/60 and 61/62). Apart from this minor defect, the volume, printed on high quality paper produced in 1810, is in very good condition. The portrait, usually mostly brown-stained, is of very fine condition in this copy. The plate leaves are also mostly in very good condition. Overall a very nice copy. ? In contrast to the first edition from 1799 ? which was not illustrated ? this second, expanded edition, edited by Thomas Rackett, contains a portrait of Richard Pulteney engraved by John Basire, a plate ('Melbury Fossils') engraved by John Cary after Mary Foster with 17 illustrations of shells, and 23 plates ('Twenty-three Plates of Shells') engraved by Peter Mazell with about 372 (!) illustrations of shells on 12 leaves. This is a new edition of Emanuel Mendes da Costa's 'Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniae' of 1778 with six additional plates (I, IV, V, XIII, XVIIII and XIX), omitting some of Da Costa's illustrations and inserting others appropriate to the locality of the subject. While the text deals with the three subjects mentioned, the plates show only shells and fossils. ? Richard Pulteney appeared as a physician, botanist and malacologist. Among other things, he belonged to the Linné Society as well as the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He left his collection of shells and minerals as well as his herbarium to the Linné Society. The herbarium is now in the British Museum. ? Neueres, schwarzes Halbleder mit Leder-Ecken sowie neueren marmorierten Vorsätzen. Rückentitel in Goldprägedruck. Dreiseitiger zeitgenössischer Goldschnitt. Folio (400 mm x 250 mm). ? Zustand: Es gab in der zweiten Auflage bei einigen Exemplaren Fehler in der Paginierung, und zwar auf den S. 53-68, die mit gedruckten Überklebern korrigiert wurden. Dabei kam es in der Folge vereinzelt zu Verklebungen der betreffenden Blätter. Späterhin sind beim Lösen dieser Verklebungen kleine Löchlein entstanden. Bei dem vorliegenden Werk geschah dies bei 4 Blättern (S. 53/54, 57/58, 59/60 und 61/62). Von diesem kleinen Mangel abgesehen ist der auf hochwertigem Papier, das im Jahre 1810 hergestellt wurde, gedruckte Band von sehr guter Erhaltung. Das Porträt, das üblicherweise zumeist braunfleckig ist, ist in diesem Exemplar von sehr schöner Erhaltung. Auch die Tafelblätter sind überwiegend von sehr guter Erhaltung ? lediglich bei zwei Tafeln sind stellenweise leichte Ausbesserungen vorgenommen worden. Insgesamt immer noch ein schönes Exemplar. ? Die hier vorliegende zweite, erweiterte und von Thomas Rackett bearbeitete Ausgabe enthält im Gegensatz zur Erstausgabe aus dem Jahre 1799 ? die nicht illustriert gewesen ist ? ein von John Basire gestochenes Porträt Richard Pulteneys, eine von John Cary nach Mary Foster gestochene Tafel ("Melbury Fossils") mit 17 Abbildungen von Muscheln sowie 23 von Peter Mazell gestochenen Tafeln ("Twenty-three Plates of Shells") mit etwa 372 (!) Abbildungen von Muscheln auf 12 Blättern. ? BrM (NH) Vol IV, p. 1622. Jackson, p. 251. Lowndes Vol. IV, p. 2009. Nissen, ZBI 3250. Pritzel (1872) 7367. Sprache: en 1282 Gramm.
Published by Printed by and for J. Nichols, Son, and Bentley, [London, 1813
Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Folio. (19 1/2 x 12 inches). Text in two columns. iv, 110pp. Engraved portrait, 24 engraved plates on 13 sheets. Uncut. Contemporary boards, expertly rebacked to style with period paper Large-paper issue of the first illustrated edition of a rare catalogue of British birds, plants and shells. Richard Pulteney received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1764, before serving as the personal physician to the Earl of Bath. Following the Earl's death, he resided and practiced in Blandford, Dorset. Besides membership in a host of medical societies, Pulteney was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Indeed, he was an early promoter of Linnaean taxonomy, and authored the first English biography of Linnaeus in 1781. His cabinet of specimens, noted particularly for its shells, was donated to the Linnean Society following his death in 1801. The first edition of 1799 was privately-published by Pulteney with few copies printed. An inscription in an extant copy by the editor of this new edition reveals that copies of the first edition were further destroyed by fire: "The first Impression of Dr. Pulteney's Catalogues was printed in 1801 [i.e. 1799], but never published, the whole having been destroyed by the fire, at Mr. Nichols's printing office [in 1808]. I have been enabled to make considerable additions in this second impression, from communication by various scientific friends, and from my own observations." Rackett's revised edition was the first to be illustrated, containing a portrait of Pulteney, a plate depicting 17 shells titled Melbury Fossils (engraved by J. Cary after Mary Foster), and 23 engraved plates of shells on 12 sheets. The plates numbered I-XXIII are new engravings of those by De Costa in his Historia Naturalis Testaeorum Britanniae, with several additions, depicting over 200 species. The present copy is a very rare large-paper issue, printed on wove paper watermarked 1810 (the 1799 and regular issue of 1813 being on laid paper), with a variant title without imprint. This large-paper issue is not recorded by the usual bibliographies. BM(NH) IV:p. 1622; Pritzel 7367; Nissen, ZBI 3250.
Published by Printed by and for J. Nichols, Son, and Bentley, [London, 1813
Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Folio. (19 1/2 x 12 inches). Text in two columns. iv, 110pp. Engraved portrait, 24 engraved plates on 13 sheets. Uncut. Some foxing. Later cloth-backed grey paper boards. Large-paper issue of the first illustrated edition of a rare catalogue of British birds, plants and shells. Richard Pulteney received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1764, before serving as the personal physician to the Earl of Bath. Following the Earl's death, he resided and practiced in Blandford, Dorset. Besides membership in a host of medical societies, Pulteney was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Indeed, he was an early promoter of Linnaean taxonomy, and authored the first English biography of Linnaeus in 1781. His cabinet of specimens, noted particularly for its shells, was donated to the Linnean Society following his death in 1801. The first edition of 1799 was privately-published by Pulteney with few copies printed. An inscription in an extant copy by the editor of this new edition reveals that copies of the first edition were further destroyed by fire: "The first Impression of Dr. Pulteney's Catalogues was printed in 1801 [i.e. 1799], but never published, the whole having been destroyed by the fire, at Mr. Nichols's printing office [in 1808]. I have been enabled to make considerable additions in this second impression, from communication by various scientific friends, and from my own obervations." Rackett's revised edition was the first to be illustrated, containing a portrait of Pulteney, a plate depicting 17 shells titled Melbury Fossils (engraved by J. Cary after Mary Foster), and 23 engraved plates of shells on 12 sheets. The plates numbered I-XXIII are new engravings of those by De Costa in his Historia Naturalis Testaeorum Britanniae, with several additions, depicting over 200 species. The present copy is a very rare large-paper issue, printed on wove paper (the 1799 and regular issue of 1813 being on laid paper), with a variant title without imprint. This large-paper issue is not recorded by the usual bibliographies. BM(NH) IV:p. 1622; Pritzel 7367; Nissen, ZBI 3250.