Extracts . . . Concerning American Trees and Plants. 1775.
Extracts . . . Concerning American Trees and Plants. 1775.
103, [2] manuscript pages (some blank). Quarto, contemporary tooled calf, moderate wear, rebacked; bookplate on front pastedown.
Notes by an unknown compiler on dozens of trees and bushes, including their economic uses and the edibility of their berries, mostly in the Philadelphia area. The descriptions are abstracted from Peter Kalm's 1770 "Travels into North America." Pages 77-78 are devoted to Apocynum Cannabinum or "Hemp of the Indians": "When the Indians were yet settled among the Swedes in Pennsylvania & New Jersey, they made ropes of this Apocynum, which the Swedes bought & used as bridles & for nets."
Laid in are 8 pages of notes on Kalm in the same hand, and 2 pages of notes in a different hand from Alexander Harvey's 1846 paper "Observations on the Nature, Longevity & Size of Trees." A 2-page manuscript index was added in 1911 by a later owner.
Provenance: 1905 Anderson Galleries auction; index added in 1911 by collector Richard Hoe Lawrence (1858-1936); biohistorian Frans Verdoorn (1906-1984) and his wife Johanna Grada Verdoorn; distinguished New York collector.
7 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (19.7 x 15.9 cm.)
Extracts . . . Concerning American Trees and Plants. 1775.
103, [2] manuscript pages (some blank). Quarto, contemporary tooled calf, moderate wear, rebacked; bookplate on front pastedown.
Notes by an unknown compiler on dozens of trees and bushes, including their economic uses and the edibility of their berries, mostly in the Philadelphia area. The descriptions are abstracted from Peter Kalm's 1770 "Travels into North America." Pages 77-78 are devoted to Apocynum Cannabinum or "Hemp of the Indians": "When the Indians were yet settled among the Swedes in Pennsylvania & New Jersey, they made ropes of this Apocynum, which the Swedes bought & used as bridles & for nets."
Laid in are 8 pages of notes on Kalm in the same hand, and 2 pages of notes in a different hand from Alexander Harvey's 1846 paper "Observations on the Nature, Longevity & Size of Trees." A 2-page manuscript index was added in 1911 by a later owner.
Provenance: 1905 Anderson Galleries auction; index added in 1911 by collector Richard Hoe Lawrence (1858-1936); biohistorian Frans Verdoorn (1906-1984) and his wife Johanna Grada Verdoorn; distinguished New York collector.
7 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (19.7 x 15.9 cm.)
