American medical botany : being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings. cBy Jacob Bigelow, M. D. Rumford professor and lecturer on materia medica and botany in Harvard University ...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston : [Cambridge] :
Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, no. 1, Cornhill. University Press .... Hilliard and Metcalf,
1817-20.
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| Item Description: | First edition, bound in sheepskin as issued; cf. America's First color plate book: Jacob Bigelow's American medical botany ... by Richard J. Wolfe (unpublished article). An edition of a thousand copies was printed ... The style of engraving is wholly new in this country, and is one which has been successfully attempted only by the first artists in France."--Advertisement, p. [v.]-vii, volume 2." Plates printed in color, touched up by hand, and perhaps engraved on stone; cf. Wolfe, and A practical guide to American nineteenth century color plate books, by Whitman Bennett, page 11. Some plates by W. B. Annin, sc., marked in the plate. |
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| Physical Description: | 3 volumes : LX color plate ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | "References" at end of each chapter. |