Search Results: Natural History from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

Uppsala: Excudebant Regiae academiae typographi, 1824. Two volumes: 22;[1],[23]-38 pp. In Latin. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Small marginal tear in second leaf, very minor dust soiling in outer leaves, else fine. Medical dissertations submitted by Johan Immanuel Billberg and Johan Otto Lindströmer at Uppsala University on the topic of ipecacuanha. Johan Immanuel (or Emanuel) Billberg (1799-1845) received his PhD in 1821 and medical doctorate in 1827, following an important botanical collecting expedition to Columbia. The essays, on the botany and pharmaceutical uses of the ipecacuanha plant of Latin America, are addressed to Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828), Professor of Medicine and Natural Philosophy at Uppsala. An important disciple of Carl Linnaeus, Thunberg was particularly distinguished for his botanical collecting expeditions in South Africa and Japan.

[Albany]: [American Quarterly Journal of Agriculture and Science], 1845. First Separate Edition. Softcover. Very good. Pp. 203-214, plus frontispiece plate of mastodon skeleton. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Uneven toning in wrappers; closed tears and small chips in rear wrapper; light scattered foxing. Very good. October 1845 offprint from the AMERICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND SCIENCE. An early report of the discovery and anatomy of the mastodon skeleton excavated in Newburgh, New York, in August 1845, which would come to be known as the Warren Mastodon. The skeleton, one of the most complete ever found, has been exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History since 1906. The author of the article was likely A. J. Prime, the Newburgh-based co-editor of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND SCIENCE.