BARTON, William Paul Crillon (1786 – 1856)
1786 – 1856
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Not stated. · Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Library and Archives , United States Navy . · Public domain
1817 CE–1819 CE
#1841
Vegetable materia medica of the United States. 2 vols.
Barton served as a naval surgeon and, in 1815, became Professor of Botany at Philadelphia. Along with Bigelow (No. 1842) Barton’s work is one of the first two botanical works with colored plates issued in the Un…
1820 CE–1824 CE
#12471
A flora of North America. Illustrated by coloured figures, drawn from nature. 3 vols.
This work represents the first successful use of stipple engravings for the reproduction of images in a book published in the United States. 29 of the 106 hand-colored plates were engraved by Cornelius Tiebout (1773-1…