Benjamin Smith Barton, Collections for an Essay Towards a Materia Medica of the United States

Scarce imprint.

Although the title page states"third edition," this work, is basically a different book. It is comprised of the third edition of part one (originally published in 1768 and the second edition of part two (first published in 1801-04).

In the preface to this edition Barton writes: "I could not consent to reprint the work precisely in the same state in which it has already appeared before the public...the little work nevertheless now appears before the public somewhat improved and enlarged. I even flatter myself that. the mass of the whole work considered, the additions will not be deemed Inconsiderable or unimportant."

The original edition published in 1798 was Barton's fist separate publication on plants and stands as a most important early American work of medical botany.

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