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Chenopodiaceae -
Chenopodium vulvaria From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1793, 1. edition, volume 3 (plate 145). Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 175 x 226 mm). Part of text enclosed. € 75
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 |