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Meliaceae - Swietenia mahagoni. From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1794 [-1795], 1. edition, supplement (plate 235). Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 174 x 227 mm). Slight offset. Text enclosed (last part 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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