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Sassafras officinale - Laurus sassafras From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1790, 1. edition, volume 1 (plate 27). Engraving (sheet 158 x 213 mm). Corner with inkstain. Text enclosed (last part missing).
€ 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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