Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830. Stephen Elliott papers, 1791- approximately 1947. Broadsides, lists, and bills, approximately 1814-1829. gra00020. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Botany Libraries, Harvard University.

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Contains an undated broadside regarding the formation of the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina in 1814; undated fragments and lists of books, medical texts, scientists, authors, and political figures; and lists of books and invoices, including an undated manuscript list of books belonging to the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina; a bill to the Charleston Library Society from an English merchant, dated April 20, 1818; a list of books ordered from J. H. Mey by Stephen Elliot for the Charleston Library Society in his capacity of president in 1821; and books and periodicals presented to the Society by French botanist François André Michaux (1770-1855) in 1821-1822. There is also correspondence in English and French from Michaux to Elliott including lists of books and the status of shipments to America in 1828 and other bills and correspondence in French, dated 1828-1829.

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Jefferson Clausen Belknap Cortez Lewis & Clark Dwight Kalm Michaux both Muhlenberg Hosack Acerbi Gmelin Stillingfleet Humboldt De Paw [Vernelli?]]

Anatomy & Surgery — Simon Theory & practice — Macbride Chemistry — Johnson Materia Medica Midwife Botany & Nat. Hist.

Anatomy — Simons Surgery — Glover Theory & prac. : Macbride Midwife — Materia Med: Chemistry — Johnson Bot : Nat : Hist.

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Hedwig Fundamenta Histor: Natur: $105. — Muscorum Frondosorum 2 part. 1 vol. 4.° 5. — Hedwig. Theoria gener. et fructific.: plan- tarum cryptogamicarum — 1 vol: 4.° 7. — Hedwig. Descriptio et adumbratio muscorum frondosorum 4 vol: fol: pl: col: 40. — Hoffman Descriptio plantarum cryptocryptogamicum Lichenes dicuntur 3 vol. fol. 25. — Ruiz et Pavon Flora Peruviana et Chilensis 5 vol: fol: 50. — Roemer Genera insectorum Lin. et Fabricii — 1 Vol. 4.° 37 pl: col: — 8. — DeGeer, Charles. Memoires pour ser- 75. 76. / 32. vir a l'histoire des insectes 75 7. vol: 4.° pl: 40. — 11 Oliver [Cretornologie?] 12 livraisons 3 vol: 4.° 240 pl: — 27. — Jacquin Icones plantarum rariorum fasc: 16 — 2 vol: fol. 648 pl: 70. — 377

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Books in the department of Natural History to be procured at Paris for the Literary Socie[ty] of Charleston — Secondhand copies will answer if not injured. We wish them in plain but good bindings. We wish them purchased in the order they stand in this catalogue if they can be obtained at or near the prices affixed to them. We hope they will be procured as cheap as possible. if the cost of any book should greatly exceed the price affixed to it, it may be passed over until we can be informed of it.

We have appropriated the sum of $500 for the purchase of these Books and whenever that sum is expended the purchases must cease.

1. Martini et Chemnitz. Historia Conchyliorum 11 vol: 4º pl: col: — $80. 2. Gärtner de fructibus et seminibus plantarum (with the continuation by his son) — 3 vol: 4º

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List of books belonging to the Literary & Philosophical of Charleston S.C. —

Volumes
Michaux 3. —
Dict. Hist. Nat. 23
Barton's Botany 1
Ewing's Philos. 1
Linneaus Plantar 9
Fourcroy's Chemst. 3
Cuvier — 2
Revue generale des
ecrits de linne 2
Shecuts Flora 1
Traite de mineralogy
par 6.in Hauy 4
Linnai Sistema
naturae — 2
Boerhaave index planm. 2
Weekly Register — 1
Linnai Bibliotheca 1
Ellis spelling Book 1
Universal Botanist
Methodus Plantus 1
Kircheri ars Magna 1
History of Plants 1
Elements of the Vete
=rinary arts — 1
Transactions of the New
York litery. & Phil. Sociy. 1
Mono on the Structure
of Fishes — 1
Mathioli senensis Medici 1
Choyxdes moyens pr.
Soulever un Navire — 1
Flora virginica — 1
Traite de Minerologie 1
List of Buffon's works
Molusques — 6
Plants — 18
Insects — 14
Reptiles — 8
Birds — 28
Fishes — 13
Quadrupeds — 13
Minerals — 11
of Man — 3
Theory of the Earth — 3
Epoque de la nature 1
Pie — experimentale 1
Pie — hyphothetique 1
Histy. des cetacées 1
Histy. of animals 1
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