Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
October 1775
Primary Source Reference:
Museum Auction Broadside, Lot 17 (Books and Papers Relating to America); Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 4v
Romans, Bernard, 1741?-ca. 1784
Notes:
Three copies Listed in Library Company's 1789 Catalogue: 672.D, 1139.O & 1551.O (all are Evans 14440); 1551.O is the number most likely to have been the Du Simitière copy; shelf list note: Sold to American Antiquarian Society 6/5/53. NOTE: Vol. 2 was never published.
Valued at 1s in Du Simitière's estate inventory, Library Company of Philadelphia, p. 8
Du Simitière lent this work to John Smith of Burlington, N.J. on 18 Feb 1776. Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 8v
The donor, Robert Aitken (1734-1802), was a Philadelphia engraver, printer, and bookseller. His short-lived monthly, The Pennsylvania Magazine, for which Du Simitière provided a title page vignette, a map, and other drawings that were engraved, employed Thomas Paine as an editor.
Title Information:
A concise natural history of East and West Florida
Imprint Information:
New York: Printed for the author, 1775
Repository:
American Antiquarian Society
