Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection

3 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary sheep (extremities rubbed, spine ends a bit worn). Provenance: Charles H. Bell (armorial bookplate); presented to the Exeter Natural History Society (inscription on bookplate, rubberstamp on title-page).

FIRST EDITIONS, comprising the first two years of the first American Scientific journal (vol. I, vol. II part I) and a later 1809 issue (vol. III part I). One of the oldest and most prestigious honorary societies in the country, the American Academy of Arts and Science was created during the Revolutionary War and it included luminaries such as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and John Hancock.