Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
July 13, 1807
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 24
Notes:
This rare broadside advertises the publication by subscription of Wilson's American Ornithology, which the Philadelphia publisher Bradford and Inskeep brought out in nine volumes from 1808 to 1814.
Wilson (1766-1813) was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator.
Title Information:
To the Lovers of Natural History. A New and Superb Work -- Being the First of the Kind Ever Published in America. Proposals for Publishing by Subscription, by Samuel F. Bradford, Philadelphia, in Imperial Quarto, American ornithology, or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States ... By Alexander Wilson
Imprint Information:
[Philadelphia, 1807]
