Isbn: 9780871692412 - forget not mee & my garden...": selected letters 1725-1768 of peter collinson, r.r.s. (memoirs of the american philosophical society) (8 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Pages look unused. Hardcover. English. Pub Year 2002, See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Forget not Mee and My Garden: Selected Letters, 1725-1768, of Peter Collinson Book by Alan W ArmstrongAlan W. Armstrong?s selection of Peter Collinson?s letters portrays a London cloth merchant who ran an extensive international horticultural business. Passionate about his work, Collinson sought favours from friends and acquaintances to build his collections of living plants and preserved specimens. His plant introductions remain a lasting record of his activity. Applying his business skills, he organised a distribution network that sent parcels of new seeds to European correspondents and patrons. He also received frequent requests for information on cultivating unfamiliar plants and pressed his suppliers, many of them in the Eastern United States, for further material. Collinson?s correspondence with prominent men of his day offers insight into developing fields including botany, horticulture, zoology, geology and physics. The letters show how his energy and persistence helped circulate knowledge and materials across these areas. (MP).…

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Hardcovers, dust jacket. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st edition. Donor's inscription on t.p. xxxv, 300 pp. Weight: 1 Language: English.

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorAlan W. ArmstrongKlappentextForget not Mee & My Garden. . ., Peter Collinson wrote his Maryland friend George Robins in 1721. If you have any Shells, Curious Stones, or any other Naturall C.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Forget not Mee & My Garden. . . , Peter Collinson wrote his Maryland friend George Robins in 1721. 'If you have any Shells, Curious Stones, or any other Naturall Curiosity Remember Mee. I want one of your Humming Birds which you may send dry'd in its Feathers, and any Curious Insect.' This theme echoed through Collinson's letters for the rest of his life, along with thanks for rarities received, introductions, cultivation instructions, encouragements, importunings, queries. Armstrong describes Collinson's correspondence as, 'vigorous, brisk, and emphatic.' His letters talk mainly of plants, but there are also antiquities, birds, butterflies, British imperial interests, sheep management in Spain, electricity, weather, fossils, insects, earthquakes, vine culture, Colonial policy, tithes, wars, terrapins, 'an Infalible Remedy for the bite of a Mad Dog,' red Indians, astronomy, the making of salt, cheese fairs, the price of wheat, the power of snakes to charm, the Spanish threat to Florida, geology, French expansion,' Hints . . . to Incorporate the Germans more with the [Pennsylvania] English. . . , the history of rice growing, premiums to encourage the production of silk, whether swallows migrate or winter-over under water, 'Old Hock' as a remedy for gout, thundergusts, magnetism, Bezoar stones, & now & then a Quakerly comment. This selection of 187 letters is enhanced with over 120 illustrations (portraits and botanical drawings among them), some by Mark Catesby, Georg Dionysius Ehret, William Bartram, many in color. Includes notes & commentary for most letters.…