Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
November 1781
Primary Source Reference:
Museum Auction Broadside, Lot 13 (Natural History); Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 60v
Notes:
Not listed in Library Company's 1789 Catalogue; the first edition was London 1695; Du Simitière evidently purchased two copies of this work at the sale in 1781 or 1782 of the library of William Byrd of Westover. One was later owned by James Cox and acquired by the Library Company in 1831. The other was later owned by Benjamin Smith Barton and was bought from his estate shortly after his death in 1815 by Pennsylvania Hospital (now at University of Pennsylvania). Edwin Wolf 2nd, "The Dispersal of the Library of William Byrd of Westover," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 68 (1958): 26n, 105-106; Kevin J. Hayes, The Library of William Byrd of Westover (Madison, 1997), nos. 137, 252
Valued at 1s 6d in Du Simitière's estate inventory, Library Company of Philadelphia, p. 4
Title Information:
An essay toward a natural history of the earth: and terrestrial bodies, especially minerals : as also of the sea, rivers, and springs. With an account of the universal deluge : and of the effects that it had upon the earth
Imprint Information:
London: Ric. Wilkin, 1695
Repository:
LCP, call no. Wing W3510 8577.O (Cox); Kislak Center for Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania, call no. QE25 .W58
