Memoir Concerning the Fascinating Faculty which Has Been Ascribed
Item #74410
BARTON, Benjamin Smith. A Memoir Concerning the Fascinating Faculty which Has Been Ascribed to the Rattle-Snake, and Other American Serpents. Phila.: Printed, for the Author, by Henry Sweitzer, 1796. 70pp. Later gilt-ruled polished calf, gilt-ruled raised spine bands, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, T.e.g, with contemporary 18th-century marbled wrappers bound in. Tiny amount of faint foxing, else very good or better copy. Sabin 3816. Evans 30037. Benjamin Smith Barton, MD (1766–1815) was professor of materia medica, natural history, and botany at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Linnaean Society, among others. This is the first herpetological work printed in America, printed for private distribution only, and extremely rare. Evans mistakenly calls for six plates, an error corrected by Shipton & Mooney.
Price: $6,500.00