Natural history, scientific, technical, and medical works have been a collecting priority since the Library Company’s founding. Among them is the only known copy of the first American scientific illustrations (Jacob Taylor’s Tenebrae (New York, 1697); more than 7,000 medical trade cards; and visually stunning colorplate books by Catesby, Audubon, and Michaux among others.

 

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