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
Jacob Bigelow (Author), William B. Annin (Engraver), John Redman Coxe (Former owner), Annin & Smith (Engraver), Cummings and Hilliard (Publisher), Hilliard and Metcalf (Printer), Thordarson Collection
Print Book, English, 1817
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Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, no. 1, Cornhill, Boston, 1817
Engravings Color
3 volumes, LX leaves of plates : color illustrations (engravings) ; 26 cm (4to)
9781891788239, 9781891788796, 189178823X, 1891788795
14845314
Issued in 6 parts
Signatures: 1-25⁴; 1-25⁴; 1-26²
Pagination: xi, [2], 18-197, [1] p.; xvi, [1], 16-199, [1] p.; x, [1], 12-193, [5] p
"An edition of a thousand copies was printed ...The style of engraving is wholly new in this country, and is one which has been successfully attempted only by the first artists in France."--Advertisement, p. v.-vii, vol. 2
Plates printed in color, touched up by hand. The plates are signed by W.B. Annin and Annin & Smith
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