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STEPHENSON, John - CHURCHILL, James M.

"Medical Botany; or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias, comprising a popular and scientific account of poisonous vegetable indigenous to Great Britain"
London
for John Churchill
1834-36
€500 - €700

3 vol. in-8vo, unnumbered text-pages, ill. with 187 hand-col. engraved plates (of which 7 double-page) after W. Clark, G. Spratt a.o. Indexes at the end. Contemporary unif. half dark green calf, top of spines neatly repaired, fly-lvs. spotted, new title-pieces, all edges gilt. A very fine series

"Interesting work on the (medical and poisonous) properties of a wide variety of plants (including a small number of fungi). Second edition. Ref. Stafleu/C. 13.011 ; Nissen BBI 1891 (first ed.) ""The plates, particularly those by Clark, are an attractive series; these are restrikes of those in the 1827-31 edition with the imprints... erased (Plesch 719)"

Botany