[Rarebooks] FS: 1828 U.S. MEDICAL FLORA with Plates Printed in Green Ink

[Charles Agvent]

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number of previously unpublished Native American remedies.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

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