American medical botany : being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings / By Jacob Bigelow, M. D. Rumford professor and lecturer on materia medica and botany in Harvard University ...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston : [Cambridge] :
Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, no. 1, Cornhill. University Press .... Hilliard and Metcalf,
1817-20.
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| Physical Description: | 3 volumes, LX color plate ; 27 cm |
| Format: | Book |
| Note: | First edition, bound in sheepskin as issued; cf. America's First color plate book: Jacob Bigelow's American medical botany ... by Richard J. Wolfe (unpublished article). An edition of a thousand copies was printed ... The style of engraving is wholly new in this country, and is one which has been successfully attempted only by the first artists in France."--Advertisement, p. [v.]-vii, volume 2." Plates printed in color, touched up by hand, and perhaps engraved on stone; cf. Wolfe, and A practical guide to American nineteenth century color plate books, by Whitman Bennett, page 11. Some plates by W. B. Annin, sc., marked in the plate. |
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| Call Number: | QK99 .B47 XX |
| Bibliography Note: | "References" at end of each chapter. |
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University library / Michigan State University, no. 12 (March 1961), p. 3. |
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1961? |