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Rosaceae - Potentilla reptans From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1790, 1. edition, volume 1, plate 59. Engraving (sheet 158 x 212 mm). Slight marginal inkstain. 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. |
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