Title: Memoirs of Mammoth, and various other Extraordinary and Stupendous Bones, of Incognita, or Non-Descript Animals, found in the Vicinity of the Ohio, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Osage, and Red Rivers, &c. &c. Author: Ashe, Thomas Place: Liverpool Publisher: G.F. Harris Date: 1806 Description: 60 pp. (8vo) 20th century blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Ashe's description and interpretation of Cincinnati doctor William Goforth's paleontological collection from Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, which he famously swindled from Goforth, shipped to Great Britain and arranged for display and later sale to the Liverpool Museum. The story of Ashe and Goforth can be found in Stanley Hedeen's "Big Bone Lick - the Cradle of American Paleontology" and other sources. This appears to be the only published description of Goforth's pioneering collection of Pleistocene fossils. Howes A351; Sabin 2179. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light wear to cloth; library stamps on endpapers, title page, and final leaf of text; good. Item number: 284315
Title: Memoirs of Mammoth, and various other Extraordinary and Stupendous Bones, of Incognita, or Non-Descript Animals, found in the Vicinity of the Ohio, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Osage, and Red Rivers, &c. &c. Author: Ashe, Thomas Place: Liverpool Publisher: G.F. Harris Date: 1806 Description: 60 pp. (8vo) 20th century blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Ashe's description and interpretation of Cincinnati doctor William Goforth's paleontological collection from Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, which he famously swindled from Goforth, shipped to Great Britain and arranged for display and later sale to the Liverpool Museum. The story of Ashe and Goforth can be found in Stanley Hedeen's "Big Bone Lick - the Cradle of American Paleontology" and other sources. This appears to be the only published description of Goforth's pioneering collection of Pleistocene fossils. Howes A351; Sabin 2179. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light wear to cloth; library stamps on endpapers, title page, and final leaf of text; good. Item number: 284315
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