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Oleaceae - Fraxinus ornus From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1790, 1. edition, volume 1 (plate 36). Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 170 x 226 mm). Text enclosed (partly in photocopy). € 60
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; Great flower books p. 81; Nissen BBI 2183; Hunt 716; Henrey 1521 & I p. 30; Stafleu & Cowan 18.272.
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