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BARTON, Benjamin Smith. Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania. Phila.: Printed, for the Author, by Way & Groff, 1799. 1st ed. xvii, 24 pp. Folio. Bound in later wrappers. This copy has been washed and the title page repaired, but still a very good copy in morocco-backed marbled-paper covered custom clamshell box. Evans 35159. Pritzel 436. Meisel III, 361. MacPhail, Benjamin Smith Barton and William Paul Crillon Barton, 2. An important early American natural history, mostly on migratory birds, by the well-known Philadelphia doctor and naturalist. 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. His writings show his wide ranging interests in, besides medicine, Indian languages, birds, rattlesnakes, botany, and other aspects of natural history. "This work deals predominantly with the migratory birds, arranged according… Read More