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Cucurbitaceae -
Ecballium elaterium - Momordica elaterium From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1790, 1. edition, volume 1 (plate 43). Engraving (sheet 158 x 210 mm). Text enclosed (partly in photocopy). € 30
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. www.meemelink.com · index · Cucurbitaceae |