RARE & IMPORTANT WORK - William Woodville 1790 1st Edition - MEDICAL BOTANY - w/274 RARE Hand Colored Engraved Plates! 4 Volumes FINE & Outstanding!
$ 2,200.00
* This set and the information within was the most important work on Medical Botany for 100 years! It held its influence for a century. The 274 hand colored numbered engraved plates by the famous artist James Sowerby are some of the finest botanical works ever done. On a side note when these prints come up individually, they can range from, between $30.00 to $150 a piece - making the art value alone worth over $10,000.00 dollars .. probably more.
Woodville, William.
Medical Botany, Containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with Plates, of All the Medicinal Plants, Indigenous and Exotic, Comprehended in the Catalogues of the Meteria Medica, as published by the Royal College of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: Accompanied with a Circumstantial Detail of their Medicinal Effects, and of the Diseases in which they have been Most Successfully Employed [4 volumes including Supplement].
Publisher: Printed & Sold for the Author by James Phillips, London;
Date of Publication: 1790
FIRST EDITION. Small folio 4 volume set (approx 23 cm x 18cm) pp. xiv, 182, [2] Index; vii, 183-368, [2] Index; viii, 369-578, xii Index; [4], 169, [11] Index. 274 hand-coloured numbered engraved plates by James Sowerby as called-for. Modern brown quarter cloth with printed paper labels to spines and marbled paper-covered boards; all edges marbled. Bindings clean and fresh. A little scattered foxing; minor staining to title page of Supplement; single leaf nicked to fore-edge and a few leaves corner creased (margin only affected). No annotation or inscriptions. A Near Fine set.
Woodville (1752-1805) was an English Physicist and botanist, a fellow of the Linnean Society and an early advocate of innoculation. This important botanical work was invaluable to students throughout the whole nineteenth century. The delicately engraved plates by James Sowerby to accompany the text are a notable feature of this work; Sowerby (1757-1822) is best-known for his celebrated English Botany in 36 volumes.
