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Anacardiaceae - Rhus coriaria From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1794 [-1795], 1. edition, supplement, plate 261. 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; Great flower books p. 81; Hunt 716; Nissen BBI 2183; Henrey 1521 & I p. 30; Stafleu & Cowan 18.272; Johnston 603. www.meemelink.com · index · Anacardiaceae |