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The botanic garden. : A poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing the economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. : With philosophical notes.
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 33600
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 33600.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botany--Poetry.
- Botany.
- Natural history--Poetry.
- Natural history.
- Genre:
- Poems -- 1798.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 15 unnumbered pages, viii-xi pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 256, x pages, 1 unnumbered page, 12-146 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 17 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo)
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Edition:
- The first American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New-York: : Printed by T. & J. Swords, printers to the faculty of physic of Columbia College, no. 99 Pearl-Street., 1798.
- Notes:
- Attributed to Erasmus Darwin in the Dictionary of national biography.
- Each part has separate title page. Part I is from the 3d, part II from the 4th London edition. Edited for republication, with a poetic "Epistle to the author of the Botanic garden," by Elihu Hubbard Smith.
- Plates engraved by Benjamin Tanner.
- With a half-title.
- "Errata" and "Instructions to the binder for placing the engravings"--recto of last leaf.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 33600).
- Cited in:
- Evans 33600
- OCLC:
- 55841177
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