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Myrtaceae - Melaleuca leucadendron From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1794 [-1795], 1. edition, supplement, plate 229. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 174 x 227 mm). Slight offset. Text enclosed (last part missing and partly in photocopy). € 65
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 1522 & I p. 30.
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