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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Portland Vase.
- Botany--Poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Botany.
- Natural history--Poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Natural history.
- Portland Vase--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Poems.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([15], viii-xi, [5], 256, x, [1], 12-146, [2] p., [17] leaves of plates ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- The first American edition.
- Other Title:
- Botanic garden.
- 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.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 33600
- English Short Title Catalog, W30017.
- OCLC:
- 642788529
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