Kimber & Conrad was a book-publishing firm at 93 High Street, Philadelphia. Emmor Kimber and Solomon White Conrad started their partnership about 1806 and continued together for a decade. About 1816Conrad began his own business and later became professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania and librarian of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (James Robinson, The Philadelphia Directory for 1806 [Philadelphia, 1806] and The Philadelphia Directory for 1816 [Philadelphia, 1816]; Kimber to TJ, 22 Mar. 1816; DSB description begins Charles C. Gillispie, ed., Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 1970–80, 16 vols. description ends , 3:391).

Scottish historian John pinkerton was the author of a Modern Geography, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1804; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 3827). The prospectus, not found, described the forthcoming American edition of his new work, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels, in all Parts of the World, 6 vols. (Philadelphia, 1810–12).