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Rosaceae - Potentilla tormentilla - Tormentilla erecta From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1790, 1. edition, volume 1. Engraving (sheet 160 x 210 mm). Text enclosed. € 35
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. |
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