| Euphorbiaceae - Hevea guianensis -
Siphonia elastica From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1794 [-1795], 1. edition, supplement (plate 255). Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 174 x 227 mm). Text enclosed (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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