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Smilacaceae - Smilax officinalis
[?] - Smilax sarsaparilla From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1793, 1. edition, volume 3 (plate 194). Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 173 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; Nissen BBI 2183; Great flower books p. 81; Hunt 716; Henrey 1521 & I p. 30. www.meemelink.com · index · Smilacaceae |