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Acorus calamus From: Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erläuterndem Texte. Atlas zur Pharmacopoea germanica, austriaca, belgica, danica, helvetica, hungarica, rossica, suecica, neerlandica, british pharmacopoeia, zum Codex medicamentarius, sowie zur Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America by Hermann Adolph Koehler. |
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Acoraceae - Acorus calamus From: Medical botany by William Woodville. London, James Phillips, 1793, 1. edition, volume 3, plate 173. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 172 x 227 mm). Text enclosed (partly in photocopy). € 70
"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; Hunt 716; Nissen BBI 2183; Henrey 1521 & I p. 30. |
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Acoraceae - Acorus calamus From: English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants by James Edward Smith. London, C.E. Sowerby, 1836, 2. edition, volume 3, plate 495. Hand-coloured engraving by James Sowerby (sheet 128 x 218 mm). Slight foxing. Text enclosed in photocopy.
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"One of the most celebrated of all British floras is Sowerby’s English
botany. This periodical publication, issued in 267 numbers, and published in
thirty-six volumes between 1790 and 1814, contains 2,592 beautifully coloured
illustrations of plants most of which are drawn and engraved by James Sowerby.
The plates are accompanied by descriptive letterpress written by the eminent
botanist James Edward Smith, …" (Henrey II p. 141). The plates of the second or
small edition of 12 volumes are mostly restrikes of the plates of the first
edition, arranged in sytematic order and including supplementary plates. Most of
the plates thus bear a double enumeration and are often not so fully coloured as
those of the first edition. James Sowerby was the first of several members of
this family who became noted as authors and illustrators of books on natural
history.* Great flower books p. 76; Nissen BBI 2225; Henrey 1369; Stafleu & Cowan 12.221. |
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Acoraceae - Acorus calamus From: Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erläuterndem Texte. Atlas zur Pharmacopoea germanica, austriaca, belgica, danica, helvetica, hungarica, rossica, suecica, neerlandica, british pharmacopoeia, zum Codex medicamentarius, sowie zur Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America by Hermann Adolph Koehler. Gera-Utermhaus, Fr.Eugen Köhler, 1887, 1. edition, volume 1, plate 17. Chromolithographed plate (sheet 220 x 298 mm). Text enclosed. € 60
Köhler’s magnum opus was published in parts from 1883-1898. The
first volume was finished in 1887, eight years after his death. The set of three
volumes with 283 colour-plates was a noteworthy achievement and included
European plants of medicinal interest. "From the botanical standpoint the finest
and most useful series of illustrations of medicinal plants" (Great flower
books). The beautiful colour-plates after illustrations by Walther Müller
and C.F. Schmidt, which were skillfully rendered in lithography by E. Günther.* Nissen BBI 1085; Great flower books p. 62; Stafleu & Cowan 3806. |
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