WILLIAM WOODVILLE - MEDICAL BOTANY - 1790

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    MEDICAL BOTANY CONTAINING SYSTEMATIC AND GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS, WITH PLATES, OF ALL THE MEDICINAL PLANTS, INDIGENOUS AND EXOTIC, COMPREHENDED IN THE CATALOGUES OF THE MATERIA MEDICA. ACCOMPANIED WITH A CIRCUMSTANTIAL DETAIL OF THEIR MEDICINAL EFFECTS

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    Subject: Antique book from the 18th century. Medicinal plants.

    Publication: London, Printed and sold for the Author, by James Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street, 1790–1794. First edition.

    Physical description: Quarto (23.5 x 19.5 cm) Volume I: XIV pages including cover, 182 pages, 1 index sheet, 65 coloured plates. Volume II: XII pages, pages 183 to 368, 1 index sheet. Plates 66 to 135. Volume III: VIII including cover, pages 369 to 578, XII index pages, plates 136 to 211. (Due to a numbering error, plate 208 becomes 210 and 211 is repeated in volume IV). Volume IV Supplement: 2 sheets including cover, 169 pages, 5 index pages, plates 211 to 274. Full period leather binding with labels and gilt lettering on the spine.

    Condition: Good condition, some sheets with oxidation spots, plates in very good condition. Binding with restorations but solid and in good condition.

    Notes: The 274 plates are copper engraved and hand-illuminated with watercolours in the 18th century.

    William Woodville (1752 – 26 March 1805) was an English physician and botanist. Convinced by the work of Edward Jenner, he was among the first to promote vaccination. His four volume book on medical botany published between 1790 and 1794 with 300 illustrations of medicinal plants by James Sowerby was an important reference work for physicians in the nineteenth century with a second edition in 1810 followed by a revision in 1832 by William Jackson Hooker and George Spratt.

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    MD-9058

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    Product type
    Book
    Author
    WILLIAM WOODVILLE
    Year
    1790
    Place
    London
    Printing / Plublisher
    Condition
    Good condition
    Binding
    Full leather binding