| Oxalidaceae - Oxalis acetosella From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1790, 1. edition, volume 1 (plate 20). Engraving (sheet 158 x 213 mm). Slight foxing and corner with small inkstain. Part of text enclosed. € 25
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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