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Palmae - Calamus rotang From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1793, 1. edition, volume 3, plate 174. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 172 x 227 mm). 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; Great flower books p. 81; Hunt 716; Nissen BBI 2183; Henrey 1521 + I p. 30.
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