[Rarebooks] FS: FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST AMERICAN BOTANICAL BOOK w 60 Color Plates, 1817-20

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BIGELOW, Jacob. AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY, BEING A COLLECTION OF THE 
NATIVE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE UNITED STATES. Boston: R. Bowyer, 1817 - 
1820. First Edition. Three octavo (6-5/8" x 9-7/8") volumes bound in 
19th century black half-morocco leather with matching corners and 
marbled boards. Illustrated with 60 engraved color plates, the first 10 
hand-colored and the others color-printed. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST 
AMERICAN BOTANICAL BOOK as well as the first book with color-printed 
plates produced in America. Bigelow received his medical degree from the 
University of Pennsylvania and was professor of medicine and botany at 
Harvard College. Scattered toning, some offsetting and mild foxing, 
wormhole to upper margin at the front few pages of the first volume; 
small library blind-stamps to titles and to all plates; mild rubbing and 
repairs to the binding. Very Good. (#017842)        $4,000.00

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