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MARSHALL, Humphrey. Arbustrum Americanum... 1785.

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Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1785. 8vo (200 x 120 mm). Contemporary manuscript correction on p. xiii. Later vellum. Condition: minor foxing and browning, inked numerical stamp on the dedication leaf; recased with the endpaper renewed. first edition of the first distinctly american work on trees. Marshall, John Bartram's cousin, maintained one of the finest gardens in North America. Arbustrum Americanum, his greatest work, is dedicated to Benjamin Franklin and the members of the American Philosophical Society and is the "first really indigenous botanical essay published in the Western hemisphere" (Darlington, Life of Marshall, page 489.) Evans 19068; Hunt 674; Pritzel 5834; Sabin 44776.

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