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Vegetable materia medica of the United States, or, Medical botany : containing a botanical, general, and medical history, of medicinal plants indigenous to the United States. Illustrated by coloured engravings, made after original drawings from nature, done by the author / by William P.C. Barton.

Accession number
PML 151829-30
Creator
Barton, William P. C. (William Paul Crillon), 1786-1856.
Published
Philadelphia : M. Carey, 1817.
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Vol. I: 273 p., index to the English and vulgar names, index, 24 hand-colored plates and text. Vol. II. 243 p., indexes, 50 hand-colored plates and text.
The plates are colored by hand.
Description
2 v., 50 plates : ill. (col.) ; 28 cm
Provenance
Vol. II has Borrow book label 1702. From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary brown calf.
Classification
Department