Heading: (Botany)
Author: [Cherry, George W.]
Title: Prospectus of a new Geographical Garden of the Two Hemispheres...
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Printed by T. Kinnersley
Date Published: 1825
Description:

[9], 10-18, [2 blank], 19-22 pp. With 3 full-page woodcuts. 21.3x12.7 cm (8½x5"), modern full leather. First Edition.

Rare outline of a gallery "Wherein will be represented in miniature, within a duo-circular enclosure, called the dioptric gallery of the two hemispheres, the various divisions and aspects of the whole Earth, as actually existing, and as deduced from the most authentic information. Connected with which will be seminaries, for the instruction of youth of both sexes, in all those branches of education which are usually taught in the highest schools and academies." George W. Cherry is listed as the patentee (p. 16). The three plates provide a ground plan of the geographical garden and inside and outside sectional views of the dioptric gallery. Pages 14-18 contain the "Constitution of a company for establishing a patent geographical garden." The project of was approved by De Witt Clinton, American politician, naturalist, United States senator, mayor of New York City, and the seventh governor of New York, and also by noted physicians Samuel L. Mitchell, and David Hosack. There is no evidence that the project was ever executed. OCLC lists only two copies, at the American Antiquarian Society and the New York Historical Society, but the AAS copy has only the first 18 pages.

Slight tanning to contents, very good or better in fine modern binding.