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Pimpinella anisum From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1793, 1. edition, volume 3, plate 180. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 172 x 227 mm). Text enclosed in photocopy.
€ 60
"William Woodville is noted for his early advocacy of the theory of
vaccination and for these excellent volumes on Medical Botany" (Hunt).
"This work contains systematic and general descriptions of all the plants in the
catalogues of the materia medica published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians
of London and Edinburgh, and is illustrated with excellent plates drawn and
engraved by James Sowerby" (Henrey). * Pritzel 10.398; Dunthorne 334; Great flower books p. 81; Hunt 716; Nissen BBI 2183; Henrey 1521 & I p. 30. www.meemelink.com | index | Apiaceae |