An introduction to botany, in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings. By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Mental improvement, Leisure hours, &c. The third American edition. To which are added, a catalogue of the most approved English names of the principal native and naturalized American plants, alphabetically arranged; with the names of the genera, and the classes and orders to which they respectively belong; according to the system of Linnaeus:--and a glossary of botanical terms.

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Title An introduction to botany, in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings. By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Mental improvement, Leisure hours, &c. The third American edition. To which are added, a catalogue of the most approved English names of the principal native and naturalized American plants, alphabetically arranged; with the names of the genera, and the classes and orders to which they respectively belong; according to the system of Linnaeus:--and a glossary of botanical terms.
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Signed Author By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Mental improvement, Leisure hours, &c.
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Volumes 1
Pagination xii, 215
Date of Publication 1818
Edition Statement The third American edition.
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Date of First Publication 1796
Imprint Published by Solomon W. Conrad, no. 87, Market Street.
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Copyright Statement District of Pennsylvania, to wit: Be it remembered, that on the twenty-fifth day of April, in the forty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1818, Solomon W. Conrad, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "An introduction to botany, in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings. By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Mental improvement, Leisure hours, &c. The third American edition. To which are added, a catalogue of the most approved English names of the principal native and naturalized American plants, alphabetically arranged; with the names of the genera, and the classes and orders to which they respectively belong; according to the system of Linnaeus:--and a glossary of botanical terms." In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, "an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the Act, entitled, "an Act supplementary to an Act, entitled an "Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other Prints." D. Caldwell, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.
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Notes AAS Notes: In the form of a series of letters between sisters.
"The design of the following Introduction to botany is, to cultivate a taste in young persons for the study of nature, which is the most familiar means of introducing suitable ideas of the attributes of the Divine Being, by exemplifying them in the order and harmony of the visible creation. ..."--Preface, p. [iii].
Edition statement transposed; precedes "To which are added ..." on title page.
Copyright Apr. 25, 1818 by Solomon W. Conrad.
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Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
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American Antiquarian Society copy lacks eleventh plate. Inscribed: Maria Matilda [--].
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Wakefield, Priscilla. An introduction to botany, in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings. By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Mental improvement, Leisure hours, &c. The third American edition. To which are added, a catalogue of the most approved English names of the principal native and naturalized American plants, alphabetically arranged; with the names of the genera, and the classes and orders to which they respectively belong; according to the system of Linnaeus:--and a glossary of botanical terms.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 20338, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/20338. Accessed 2024-12-22. 

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