RARE 1869 Resources Southern Fields & Forests, CAROLINA, Charleston Confederate

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RARE 1869 Resources Southern Fields & Forests, CAROLINA, Charleston Confederate:
$750.00

Resources Of The Southern Fields And Forests, Medical, Economical And Agricultural; Being Also A Medical Botany Of The Southern States, With Practical Information On The Useful Properties Of The Trees, Plants And Shrubs

By Francis Peyre Porcher

Published:Walker, Evans & Cogswell, Charleston, 1869.

733pp., plus addendum, ads. Third edition, after the wartime printings in Charleston and Richmond. Hardcover, both boards detached and no spine covering. Text block is solid, but starting to separate a little. Presently, the exterior is in poor condition, but this is a perfect and worthy candidate for rebinding. A truly historic and landmark work.

HARWELL, IN TALL COTTON 150: ‘This is probably the most ambitious and important work produced in the Confederacy. Evans & Cogswell put out a new edition in Charleston in 1869, one that appears to be even rarer than its Confederate predecessors.’ NEVINS II, 199: ‘A contemporary survey of scientific and popular knowledge of the medicinal, economic and useful properties of trees, plants and shrubs in the South.’ HARWELL, CORNERSTONES OF CONFEDERATE COLLECTING 10. HARWELL, CONFEDERATE HUNDRED 69. HOWES P-482. NEVINS II, 199

Not Ex-Lib.

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