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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
by Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel)
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CHESTER, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Atkinson and Alexander, 1830. First edition. Two volumes, uncut in period style quarter green morocco. 7-1/4 x 4-1/4 inches, xii, 268, 276 pp. 100 woodcut plates printed in green, with plates 50 and 53 (the last in v. 1 and the first in v. 2) provided in excellent facsimile. Fine condition. "Beginning in 1818, with his 2,000-mile tour to the west of the Alleghenies, Rafinesque made important botanical explorations, mostly on foot, as far as Kentucky and Illinois" (DSB). "Rafinesque was a great botanist, conchologist, archaeologist, and economist,... This work describes for the first time a number of American Indian remedies". Garrison-Morton 1849; Meisel III, p. 400; Sabin 67457.
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- Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31966
- Title
- 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
- Author
- Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Atkinson and Alexander
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1830
- Keywords
- , MEDICAL AMERICANA, botany, medicine, herbal
- Bookseller catalogs
- NATURAL HISTORY;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
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