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Modern Publications and New Editions of Valuable Standard Works, Printed for M. Carey & Son, No. 126 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Oct. 1817

Philadelphia: 1817.

Softcover. Near fine. 24 pp, disbound. Slight soiling and foxing; near fine. A catalogue from one of the most important American publishers of the period, listing works on travels and voyages, history and biography, law, medicine, poetry, Novels, etc. Among the offerings are Carey's General Atlas, Improved (which added information from the Lewis and Clark expedition and included 58 colored maps, mostly American) and William Barton's Vegetable Material Medica of the United States, an important early American color plate book.

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