[Rarebooks] FS: Medical Botany of England, w/138 hand-colored plates. 2 v. London: 1819-1821

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(BOTANY) MEDICAL BOTANY: OR, HISTORY OF PLANTS IN THE MATERIA MEDICA of
the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharmacopoeias. Arranged According to
the Linnean System... [In Two Volumes. Illustrated by One Hundred and
Thirty Eight Coloured Plates, and Portrait of Linnaeus]. London:
Printed for E. Cox. 1819-1821. 2 vols.
(ii)-xii,236,(2);(2),ii,236,(ii)-viii pp. Indices. Illustrated with an
engraved portrait of Linnaeus and 138 hand colored botanical plates.
Cont. gilt decorated dark brown calf, gilt, over textured cloth (a bit
soiled), both volumes rebacked with the orig. spine strips laid back
down. Some text offsetting on the final leaves of Vol. I, and
occasionally onto some of the plates in both volumes. Ownership
signature on both title pages. Scarce.   $4,500.00 (trade discount 
allowed)
Pritzel 10706; Jackson 201.

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