Marshall, Humphrey | The first work on trees to be both written and published in America

Marshall, Humphrey

Arbustrum Americanum: The American Grove, or, An Alphabetical Catalogue of Forest Trees and Shrubs, Natives of the American United States. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1785

8vo (200 x 114 mm). Browning and scattered spotting, inked numerical stamp on the dedication leaf, marginal annotation to p. xiii. Later vellum; recased with endleaves renewed.  

First edition. Arbustrum Americanum is described by Marshall's biographer, William Darlington, as "the first truly indigenous Botanical Essay published in the Western Hemisphere" (DAB).

REFERENCE

ESTC W5289; Evans 19068; Federal Hundred 7; Hunt II:674; Pritzel 5834; Sabin 44776