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Brassicaceae - Sisymbrium nasturtium From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1790, 1. edition, volume 1 (plate 48). Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 172 x 225 mm). Text 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. www.meemelink.com · index · Brassicaceae |