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Apiaceae -
Daucus carota From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1793, 1. edition, volume 3, plate 161. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 172 x 227 mm). Text enclosed (partly 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 |