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An introduction to botany, in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Wakefield, Priscilla, 1751-1832
Title
An introduction to botany, in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings
Publisher
Boston : Published by J. Belcher, Congress Street, and J.W. Burditt and Co. Court Steet ; J. Belcher, printer
Description
xii, 216 p., 12, [2] leaves of plates (2 folded) : 19 cm
In the form of a series of letters between sisters
"The design of the following Introduction to botany, is to cultivate a taste in young persons for the study of nature, which is the most familiar means of introducing suitable ideas of the attributes of the Divine Being, by exemplifying them in the order and harmony of the visible creation. ..."--Preface, p. [iii]
Printer from verso of title leaf
"The plates engraved by Thos. Wightman"--Plate 1
Includes index
Signatures: *⁶ 1-18⁶
Library holds rebound volume and original covers removed for rebinding
NLM copy provenance: book-label of Adam L. Bingaman; stamp of Dr. Albert N. Blodgett, Boston, Mass
Condition reviewed 20101229
digitized. 2013

Subjects: Plants -- classification; Botany
Language English
Publication date 1811
publication_date QS:P577,+1811-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: usnationallibraryofmedicine; medicalheritagelibrary; americana
Accession number
2576017R.nlm.nih.gov
Source
Internet Archive identifier: 2576017R.nlm.nih.gov
https://archive.org/download/2576017R.nlm.nih.gov/2576017R.pdf
  • IA contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • IA digitizing sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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