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Salsola kali From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1793, 1. edition, volume 3 (plate 143). Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 175 x 226 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. www.meemelink.com · index · Chenopodiaceae |