This work is sometimes considered to be a supplement to Say's American entomology (1824-1828).

Pages [3]-19 are reprinted from The disseminator".

Complete work reproduced in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, v. 4 (1832) p. 409-470, with additional material in v. 6, (1836) p. 155-190.

Asher & Co. B.V.; purchase; 9/2009; $4525.00

SCNHRB copy 39088015259773 appears to be a proof copy. Pages [7]-8 are tipped-in on a paper stub and trimmed shorter than the adjoining leaves, with a line or two cut away at the top of p. [8] supplied in old ms. ink. The caption title "Natural history" is printed on p. [7] and "(to be continued.)" printed at the foot of p. [8]. Pages [59], [60], [63] and [64] have text supplied in ms. ink on blank paper, mounted (presumably) over the printed text on these pages.

SCNHRB copy has "author's corrected copy" written in ms. pencil on the front free endpaper, in an unidentified hand. According to the bookseller's description (from the A. Asher & Co. B.V., website, 25 March 2009 update) for this copy, "The first seventeen (unnumbered) pages of the present book are taken from the [New Harmony] school newspaper, The Disseminator (March-August 1830) .... Whether the present pages 18-65 represent an offprint separately published with a new title-page at New Harmony or a separate printing at the school press is not certain, but the difference in the number of pages, lack of signatures & catchwords, and the misprinting of one quire tempt one to think this is the student's work, as the first seventeen pages certainly are. Pages 18-65 collate [A]-[F]4 and were printed work-and-turn in half-sheet imposition .... [T]he present quire F lacks pages 59, 60, 63 and 64 and has in their places duplicates of pages 61, 58, 65, and 62 respectively. It may be the author himself who wrote out the missing pages in manuscript and pasted them over the duplicate pages."

SCNHRB copy has extensive ms. annotations on the endpapers regarding the bibliographical history of this publication and on the provenance of this particular copy. "Verite de la bibliothèque de Audouin 1842, p. 49, no. 681", signed "DMG" [i.e. Donald Mac Gillavry], is written on the front paste-down endpaper in ms. ink.

SCNHRB copy has bookplates: 1. Ex libris Donald Mac Gillavry; 2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment.

SCNHRB copy has a later blue mottled paperboard binding with gilt-tooled black leather spine and marbled edges; the binder's title is in French.