[Rarebooks] FS: 1828 American Medical Botany with 100 Plates Printed in Green Ink
Charles Agvent
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Wed May 1 09:20:02 EDT 2019
RAFINESQUE, C(onstantine) S(amuel). MEDICAL FLORA; OR, MANUAL OF THE
MEDICAL BOTANY OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. Containing a
selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with
their names, qualities, properties, history, &c.: And notes or remarks
on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes. Philadelphia: Atkinson & Alexander
(first volume); Samuel C. Atkinson (second volume), 1828 & 1830. First
Edition. Two duodecimo (4-1/4" x 7-1/4") volumes bound in recent
burgundy cloth-backed off-white boards with title information printed in
black on both boards and printed white paper spine labels, new
endpapers. Illustrated with 100 plates printed in green ink on varying
sheet sizes. In this work, of which a projected third volume was never
published, Rafinesque attempted to provide a comprehensive guide of
native flora for the use of American doctors and pharmacists. Rafinesque
made important botanical explorations on his 2,000-mile tour, mostly on
foot, to the west of the Alleghenies in 1818. This work includes a
number of previously unpublished Native American remedies. Minor chip
here and there; plate 26 with clean horizontal tear with no loss;
contents generally clean and binding Fine. Overall Near Fine.
Garrison-Morton 1849; Nissen, Botany 1579; Norman 1774; Pritzel 7401;
Sabin 67457. (#019189) $2,500.00
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