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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.

Accession number
PML 38868-70
Creator
Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879.
Published
Boston : Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, 1817-1820 ([Cambridge, Mass.] : University Press, Hilliard and Metcalf)
Notes
For detailed description of publishing history, illustration process and publisher's binding, see Wolfe, R.J. Jacob Bigelow's American medical botany. North Hills, Pa. : Bird and Bull Press, l979.
Each volume issued in two parts, paged continuously. All but v. 1, pt. 1 have special half-title. Vol. 1, pt. 1 and v. 2, pt. 2 have errata on p. [4] of covers.
Vol. 1: xi p., p. [17]-197, [1] p., xx leaves of plates; v. 2: xvi p., p. [15]-199, [1] p., leaves xxi-xl of plates; v. 3: x p., p. [11]-197, [1] p., leaves xli-lx of plates.
Description
6 pts. (3 v.) : 60 col. ill. ; 28 cm
Provenance
Stamp of H.A. Dudley on fly-leaves, and title-page of v. 1; autograph signature of Eleanor C. Marquand on lining-papers inside front covers.
Binding
Contemporary tree calf.
Classification
Department