Sketches of the Elements of Natural Philosophy. Accompanied with Sketches of a New Theory of the Earth

by John Linnaeus Edward Whitridge Shecut

$6,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Red quarter morocco with tips over blue paper boards, spine ruled gilt into six compartments, gilt title in second, on wove paper, uncut Rare, eclectic work of natural philosophy by John L. E. W. Shecut, a South-Carolina Renaissance man of the early 1800s. Shecut, an American botanist known for his descriptions of the flora and yellow-fever in South Carolina, herein tackles a Grand Theory of Everything. From today's viewpoint of academic overspecialization, the

• Binding: Leather

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