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Marshall, Humphrey. Arbustrum Americanum: The American Grove,... Catalogue of Forest Trees and Shrubs, Natives of The American United States, arranged according to The Linnaean System... also, some hints of Their Uses in Medicine, Dyes, amd Domestic Oeconomy. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1785. First edition. 8vo, modern green morocco-backed green cloth, bookplate on front free endpaper verso. Occasional, mostly minor, internal spotting, occasional old ink annotations. Tall copy.
The first book on trees to be both written & published in America; DAB calls it "the first truly indigenous botanical essay published in the Western Hemisphere." Marshall, a cousin of John Bartram, dedicated the book to Benjamin Franklin & The American Philosophical Society.
Evans 19068; Hunt 674