American Natural History
Philadelphia: Key and Mielkie, 1831.
Hardcover. Very good-. Second edition. Three-volume set, octavo, uniformly bound in contemporary full calf, each volume with an extra engraved title page, frontispiece of "Petalsharoo, Son of Latelsha, Knife Chief of the Pani-Loups, in full dress" in Volume I. Set contains a total of 48 full-page plates, most of north American mammals (a few of skeletons or skulls, two of Native Americans). Scuffing to boards, mild to moderate foxing throughout, otherwise clean and sound. A copy of the American Tract Society pamphlet "Memoir of Dr. John D. Godman" by Thomas Sewall is laid in. Godman was a physicial and anatomy professor who pioneered "a holistic method of teaching anatomy whereby the different parts of the body were considered in terms of their relationship to one another instead of as isolated segments....His innovative teaching methods and textbooks advanced anatomical education in the United States, while his writings on American natural history provided a firm scientific base on which future naturalists could build" (ANB). Volume III includes considerable content on whales and whaling. Sabin 27663.
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