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Urticaceae - Parietaria officinalis From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1793, 1. edition, volume 3, plate 142. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 175 x 227 mm). Part of text enclosed. € 70
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; Nissen BBI 2183; Great flower books p. 81; Hunt 716; Henrey 1521 & I p. 30. |
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