A PHYSICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY, LOWER LOUISIANA, AND A PART OF WEST FLORIDA
Pendergrast, Garrett Elliott
Published by Printed at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, Philadelphia, 1803
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34pp. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Early ownership signature on titlepage. Lightly toned. Very good. Generally credited with being the first American scientific description of the lower Mississippi Valley, based on the observations of the author and material supplied by William Dunbar. The author was a native of Natchez, and this work (dedicated to some of the most eminent scientists of the day) was his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Jones notes this work as "very rare," and the Eberstadts call it "a great rarity." STREETER SALE 1532. HOWES P197, "b." SABIN 65056. EBERSTADT 164:299. JONES 196. SERVIES 772. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 26 (note). Seller Inventory # WRCAM45415
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Title: A PHYSICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE ...
Publisher: Printed at the Office of the Gazette of the United States, Philadelphia
Publication Date: 1803
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A Physical and Topographical Sketch of the Mississippi Territory, Lower Louisiana, and a Part of West Florida.
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Philadelphia: Office of the Gazette of the United States, 1803., 1803
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"8vo., (8 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches). (Lower corner of title page renewed; a bit spotted throughout). (Disbound). First edition. "This rare work contains the first scientific description of the lower Mississippi Valley, based on the author's observations and on material supplied by William Dunbar" (Streeter). Pendergrast attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, and dedicated this dissertation to his mentors there: Caspar Wistar, Benjamin Smith Barton, and James Woodhouse. "In Natchez centered the activities of the Mississippi Society for the Acquirement and Dissemination of Useful Knowledge, the most vigorous and long-lived of half a dozen literary and library societies. Incorporated in November, 1803, for the purpose of 'acquiring and disseminating useful information in natural science and primarily agriculture,' the society had some interesting membersThe several medical doctors included Garrett Elliott Pendergrast, graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, member of the American Linnean Society, and author of 'A Physical and Topographical Sketch of the Mississippi Territory, Lower Louisiana, and a Part of West Florida'" (Hamilton, "The Southwestern Frontier, 1795-1817: An Essay in Social History"). Howes P197. Shaw & Shoemaker 4831. Sabin 65056 ("Prendergast"). Streeter 3:1532.". Seller Inventory # 72MMS212
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A PHYSICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY, LOWER LOUISIANA, AND A PART OF WEST FLORIDA.
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34pp. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Early ownership signature on titlepage. Lightly toned. Very good. Generally credited with being the first American scientific description of the lower Mississippi Valley, based on the observations of the author and material supplied by William Dunbar. The author was a native of Natchez, and this work (dedicated to some of the most eminent scientists of the day) was his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Jones notes this work as "very rare," and the Eberstadts call it "a great rarity." STREETER SALE 1532. HOWES P197, "b." SABIN 65056. EBERSTADT 164:299. JONES 196. SERVIES 772. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 26 (note). Seller Inventory # 45415
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