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TORREY, JOHN, M.D.
A COMPENDIUM OF THE FLORA OF THE NORTHERN AND MIDDLE STATES . . . IN THE UNITED STATES, NORTH OF THE POTOMAC
Stacy B. Collins N. Y. 1826 First edition. Nicely rebound in cloth-backed marbled boards with paper title label. 7 X 4 inches; 6, [2], 403 pages. (Page 85 misnumbered 58; pp. 354-358 repeated; page numbers 367-368 skipped; but complete.) Ink stain on bottom margins at rear. Torrey, a chemist, botanist, &c, "initiated the practice of gathering in one work all that was known of American flora," and among American botanists led in the adoption of the natural system of classification.
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