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A Philosophical Treatise...writ in America in a time of Solitudes. Richard FRANCK
The First Philosophical Work Written in Colonial America.

A Philosophical Treatise...writ in America in a time of Solitudes.

London: John Gain, 1687.
Only edition. Richard Franck, a captain in Cromwell's army during the Battle of Dunbar and other Scots campaigns, lived for a few years in America in the 1680s, during which time he composed his Philosophical Treatise, a strange, euphuistic meditation on God, Mosaic Creation, and the.....

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Anatomical Account of the Elephant Accidentally Burnt in Dublin. Allan MULLEN
A Post Mortem on an Elephant in 1681—in Dublin.

Anatomical Account of the Elephant Accidentally Burnt in Dublin.


Only edition. An extraordinary illustrated anatomical record, in the form of a letter to William Petty at the Royal Society in London, from Allan Mullen, Fellow of the College of Physicians in Ireland, describing Mullen's dissection of an African elephant. His opportunity to study the animal arose as the result.....

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