936. Schoepf, Dr. J. D. Travels in the Confederation (The United States), 1783-1784. Translated from the German by A. J. Morrison, Ph. D. 2 vols. To be pub. by Subscription. Dr. Schoepf was a Chief Surgeon in the British Army during the Revolution and was on duty in New York, Philadelphia and in Rhode Island. After the War he set out, in 1783, from N. York and traveled through N. Jersey, Penna., Md., Va., the Carolinas and E. Florida as also in the Bahamas Island. The greater part of the first volume is devoted to Pennsylvania as far West as Pittsburg. He was a man of Science—the first formal student of American Geology—and gives much space to matters of Natural History.
The above work is translated from the original and only edition which is extremely scarce. Its title is as follows: “Reise durch einige der mittlern und sudlichen vereinigten nordamerikanischen Staaten, etc. Erlangen, 1788.” Prospectus will be sent on application. Franklin Book Shop sole Eastern Agents.$5.00
937. Sclater, P. L. List of the Vertebrated Animals Now or Lately Living in the Gardens of the Zool. Soc. of London. 1883. Eighth ed., as new 682 pp., 61 cuts and plates. Contains list of all species received during the previous 22 years.$1.25
938. Shaw, George. Zoological Lectures Delivered at the Royal Inst. in 1806 and 1807. 2 vols., full calf, gilt, illus. by 163 plates, covering all orders of zoology. London, 1809.$1.5O
939. Shaw, G., and Nodder, Fred’k P. Naturalists Miscellany; or, Coloured Figures of Natural Objects Drawn and Described from Nature. 5 vols. in 3, mottled calf, 182 colored plates of Birds, Mammals, Snakes, Insects, Reptiles, Plants, Corals, etc., some of the illus. very curious. Plates numbered, and indexes referring to them, but text is not paged. Each vol. has Index and dedicatory page, inscribing the vol. to some celebrated person; 1 title-page to whole. Several plates out of order, and 2 have large portions torn away. Vols. wrongly numbered by binder. Remarkably clean set; very full as to birds. Portraits of William and Mary pasted inside front cover of first vol. London, 1790-93.$7.50
939A. Sibree, Rev. James. The Great African Island. Chapters on Madagascar. Account of Recent Researches, Natural History and Botany, Folk Lore, etc. 372 pp., illus., map, uncut, author’s autogr. pres. copy. London, 1880.$3.00
940. Smith, Geo. (M. D.) Delaware County, Penna., from the Discovery of the Territory, included within its limits to the Present Time, with a Notice of the Geology of the County and Catalogues of its Minerals, Plants, Quadrupeds and Birds. New buckram, gilt top, uncut, paper label, Author’s portrait, 5 folding maps, views, fac-simile autographs and letters. 581 pp. Phila., 1862.$4.00
941. Smith, Robert (Late Rat-Catcher to the Princess Amelia). Universal Directory for Taking Alive and Destroying Rats, and all other Four-Footed and Winged Vermin, etc. 4th ed., boards, 150 pp., folding plates. London, 1812. Includes Bird-Catching.$2.00
942. Smith, Robt. Universal Directory for Taking Alive and Destroying Rats, and all other Kinds of Four-Footed and Winged Vermin, etc. 12mo, calf, 218 pp., folding plates. The author was Rat-Catcher to the Princess Amelia. Rare first ed. London, 1768.$3.00
943. Stark, J. Elements of Natural History. Vol. 1. Vertebrata. Vol. 2, Invertebrata. 8 plates, 2 vols., boards, uncut. Edinburgh and London, 1828.$1.00