A Dictionary Of The Natural History Of The Bible; Or, A Description Of All The Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, And Insects, Trees, Plants, Flowers, Gums And Precious Stones, Mentioned In The Sacred Scriptures.

HARRIS, Thaddeus Mason .:

Verlag: London: Printed For Geo B Whittaker Ave-Maria Lane, 1825

Beschreibung

"A New Edition With Plates." 12mo. 7.5" x 5.0" x 1.25". No pagination (c. 232ff.) + 4pp. page Publisher's catalogue at the end; dated "September 1, 1830." Original green buckram boards, edges rubbed and bumped. Flat spine with old paper label(soiled). Inner hinges carefully strengthened. Clean English text throughout, illustrated with 11 full-page engravings (all dated 1825). Light soiling and toning to margins of all plates. Still a very good copy of this scarce publication. ** "Thaddeus Mason Harris (1768 1842) was a Harvard librarian, Unitarian minister and author in the early 19th Century. His most noted book was The Natural History of the Bible first published in Boston in 1793. Harris's father was killed fighting on the colonists side in the American Revolutionary War. Harris had been born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, but after his father's death he was sent to live on a farm in Stirling, Massachusetts. Harris went on to study at Harvard University from which he graduated in 1788. He then was a school teacher at Worcester, Massachusetts, before becoming the librarian of Harvard in 1781 and then being appointed the minister of the First Unitarian Church of Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1791. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1806. Harris was also a founding member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1812, and served as corresponding secretary from 1812-1831, and as secretary of foreign correspondence from 1831-1832. Harris's son Thaddeus William Harris would also serve as a librarian at Harvard and be one of the leading American naturalists in the first half of the 19th century." - Wikipedia . Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 43275

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Titel: A Dictionary Of The Natural History Of The ...

Verlag: London: Printed For Geo B Whittaker Ave-Maria Lane

Erscheinungsdatum: 1825

Einband: Hardcover