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Umbelliferae - Archangelica officinalis - Angelica archangelica From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1790, 1. edition, volume 1, plate 50. Engraving (sheet 164 x 214 mm). Text enclosed. € 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; Stafleu & Cowan 18.272; Johnston 603. |
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