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The First Comprehensive North American Flora

NUTTALL, Thomas. THE GENERA OF NORTH AMERICAN PLANT, And A Catalogue Of The Species, To The Year 1817. Philadelphia: Printed for the author by D. Heartt, 1818. $800.00

First edition of the first comprehensive account of North American flora. Nuttall was among the earliest (and arguably the most important) of the botanical explorers to survey and record plant life across the American continent. His first extended expeditions were encouraged and financed by Benjamin Smith Barton. He travelled up the Missouri River and through the Dakotas during the years 1811 and 1812 and through the southeastern states during 1815, during which time he collected seeds and the notes upon which. much of his GENERA is based. Nuttall, who was trained in England as a printer before emigrating to. Philadelphia in 1808, helped set most of the type for this edition to help defray its cost. As a work of. highly praised and long stond

as the authority upon which otners sought to expand. Torrey wrote that "The GENERA contributed more than any other work to advance the accurate knowledge of plants in this country." Two volumes bound in one, 12mo (19 x 10.5 cm); viii 312, 254 + 14 pp. FROM SEED TO FLOWER 17. Contemporary full marbled sheep with leather spine label; occasional light foxing, but generally a well preserved copy.