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Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel Mcmasters MIL
19. QUINBY, Jane, and Allan Stevenson, compilers. CATALOGUE OF BOTANICAL BOOKS IN THE COLLECTION OF RACHEL MCMASTERS MILLER HUNT. Volume I[-II]. (New York: Maurizio Martino), [n.d. circa 1990]. A reprint of the 1958 edition, limited to 400 copies. Two volumes. B&w illustrations. lxxxiv, 517 pp.; ccxliv, ix, 655 pp. 4to. maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Very Good. .
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Pharmacopaeia Officinalis & Extemporanea: Or, a Complete English Disp
1782. QUINCY, John. PHARMACOPAEIA OFFICINALIS & EXTEMPORANEA: OR, A COMPLETE ENGLISH DISPENSATORY, IN TWO PARTS. THEORETIC AND PRACTICAL. London: T. Longman, 1782. Fifteenth Edition, much enlarged and corrected. x. 656p. [62p.] Octavo. Calf with leather spine label. Some wear at hinges and edges. Bookplate (Samuel A.D. Sheppard) at front pastedown, a solid copy, very good overall. .
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Pharmacopoeia Radcliffeana
1716. RADCLIFFE, John. PHARMACOPOEIA RADCLIFFEANA; or Dr. Radcliff's prescriptions, faithfully gather'd from his Original Recipe's. To which are annex'd, Useful Observations upon each Prescription. [By Edward Strother.] London: Printed for Charles Rivington .. 1716. First edition. 12mo. xii, 166, [2] pp. The final leaf is a publisher's advertisement. Bookblock sound; however, the upper board is detached and the lower board is missing. Ex library, ink stamp on title-page and p. 50. Text pages are age toned, some with light to moderate foxing. A popular work, a second edition with a portrait was issued the same year as the first (which was issued without a portrait), as was a second part entitled "Pharmacopoeiae Radcliffeanae pars altera." A complete copy of the first edition of the first part that needs rebinding and is offered as is. John Radcliffe (1650-1714) was a successful, Oxford-educated, English physician. He established a large practice at London that was as much a result of his witty conversation as his clinical skill and accurate prognoses, though sometimes his wit seems to have verged on rudeness, especially to his social superiors, and his prognoses were blunt. He became chief physician to the Princess Anne in 1686, after which he was employed professionally by William III, whom he eventually offended. At his death he bequeathed money in trust to Oxford University to build and maintain a library, which was completed in 1747 and still bears his name, and other large sums for charitable use. (Wellcome IV, p. 462; D.N.B.). .
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Notes on the Revision of the Sixth Decennial Pharmacopoeia of the U.S.
1880. COMMITTEE OF REVISION AND PUBLICATION. NOTES ON THE REVISION OF THE SIXTH DECENNIAL PHARMACOPOEIA OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Oblong folio, ex-library with usual markings. Quarter morocco, library binding. Spine title: "U.S. PHARMACOPOEIA REVISION 1 - 90." Thick (2 3/4 inches) bound collection of mimeographed and manuscript notes and circulars from the Committee of Revision and Publication for the Sixth Decennial Revision, which was published in October 1882. Also included are offprints of related articles from various journals and what appear to be printed revisions. These are arranged somewhat chronologically, some out of order, and are dated from 1880-1881. This was the most radical revision of the Pharmacopoeia since the first edition of 1820, and included such amendments as the adoption of the metric system of weights and measures, an end to the practice of polypharmacy (mixing drugs into one formula), standardization of tincture concentrations at 10%, new classes of preparations such as abstracta, elixirs, oleates and triturations, and the abolition of fluid measures in the working formulas. Many documents bear the signature of committee head Charles Rice. See Haller: "The United States Pharmacopoeia: Its Origin and Revision in the 19th Century", Bulletin of the NY Academy of Medicine, 1982 June; 58 (5) pp. 480-492. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1805252/pdf/bullnyacadmed 00091-0058.pdf. .
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Botanical Dictionary
1817. RICHARD, Louis-Claude. A BOTANICAL DICTIONARY, being a translation from the French ..; with additions from Martyn, Smith, Milne, Wildenow, Acharius, &c. New-Haven: Published by Hezekiah Howe; N. Whiting, Printer, 1817. First edition. 12mo. worn contemporary paper-covered boards. Ex library, but with only two old ink stamps within and a partial shelf label at foot of spine. Backstrip is missing; lower board nearly detached. There is a list of errata on p. [155] and a "Catalogue of Botanical Works for sale by Hezekiah Howe, New-Haven" on pp. [157-158]. The second edition, issued in 1819, lists Amos Eaton as translator of this work, Pierre Bulliard's Dictionnaire elementaire de botanique which was revised by L.-C. Richard in 1799. Eaton was a respected botanist and educator who published several books about botany. (Shaw & Shoemaker 41977, the first edition, & 49286, the second edition). .
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Medical Botany
1831. STEPHENSON, John A. and John Morss CHURCHILL. MEDICAL BOTANY: OR, ILLUSTRATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MEDICAL PLANTS OF THE LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND DUBLIN PHARMACOPOEIAS; comprising a popular and scientific account of all those poisonous vegetables that are indigenous to Great Britain. Vol. I.[-IV.] London: John Churchill, 1831. Illustrated with 185 numbered, hand-colored plates after G. Spratt, W. Clark, Weddell, G. Reid, and C. M. Curtis, of which there are six double-plates and one folding-plate. Additionally, there is an unnumbered variant of Plate 1, Atropa Belladonna, and a duplicate of plate 18, Digitalis Purpurea, which brings the total number of plates to 187. Four octavo volumes, unpaginated. 23.5 x 14.2 cm. Bound in nineteenth century, three-quarter brown morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, and all edges marbled to match. Ex library, with stamps on title page and the occasional stamp in text. Some plates have library stamps on reverse, but none are defaced. Some light foxing and offset from plates, a bit heavier in volumes 1 and 2. Bindings show light shelfwear along edges. Lower hinge of volume 1 is strengthened. The images are lovely and often dramatic. (Graesse VI, p. 493; Jackson, Guide to the Literature of Botany, p. 201; Nissen 1891; Pritzel 8946; Wellcome V, p. 183. Both Jackson and Pritzel flag it as an especially noteworthy work.). .
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Medical Botany: Or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal
1831. STEPHENSON, John & James Morss CHURCHILL. MEDICAL BOTANY: OR, ILLUSTRATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE LONDON, EDINBURGH AND DUBLIN PHARMACOPOEIAS; COMPRISING A POPULAR AND SCIENTIFIC ACCOUNT OF ALL THOSE POISONOUS VEGETABLES THAT ARE INDIGENOUS TO GREAT BRITAIN. VOL. IV. London: John Churchill, 1831. Unpaginated; with indexes of Latin and English names, and a glossary. This is Volume IV only. 8vo. half gilt-ruled calf, spine missing, red marbled paper covered boards, red marbled edges. Boards worn, detached. Red marbled endpapers. Light soil to title page, else a clean and tight block with forty five beautifully hand-colored plates, one double page, one folding. .
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British Flora; or, Genera and Species of British Plants
1812. THORNTON, Robert John. BRITISH FLORA; OR, GENERA AND SPECIES OF BRITISH PLANTS: ARRANGED AFTER THE REFORMED SEXUAL SYSTEM; AND ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS TABLES, AND DISSECTIONS. London: J. Whiting, 1812. Five volumes bound in two. 8vo. 120pp. 138pp. 126pp. 100pp.52pp.+ 347 leaves of b/w plates. Three-quarter dark brown leather over marbled boards. Stamped and ruled in gilt to spines. Ex- library, bookplate to pastedowns and stamps. Boards rubbed at extremities. Joints are worn. Thornton is best known for his work THE TEMPLE OF FLORA, from which some of the material for this work is annexed. THE TEMPLE was his ambitious attempt to create a monumental botanical publication that was specifically British. The production of it was a financial disaster that ruined him. Thornton died in 1837 in destitution. (ODNB), (Pritzel 9239). .
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(TåChå«) Kokuyaku Honzå KåMoku (é 註) åoeè¯æOe¬èç¶±ç® (Also Honså KåMoku), 15 Vols
1929. (Tōchū) Kokuyaku Honzō Kōmoku (頭註) oe譯oe草
目 (also Honsō Kōmoku), 15 vols [Bencao Gangmu - Materia Medica], Li Shizhen 李時珍原, author; translated by Makino Tomitaro et al. Shunyodo 春陽堂, publisher Showa 4 [1929] 15 volumes, bound Western-style in decorated cloth over boards, slipcases. The late 16th century Chinese materia medica, Honzō Kōmoku oe草
目, was imported into Japan by the early 17th century. Bencao Gangmu, or "Compendium of Materia Medica," was originally written by Chinese botanist Li Shizhen 李時珍原 (1518-1593). The first Japanese edition appeared in 1637, the definitive enlarged Japanese edition in 1714, with native Japanese plants added. The Edo era versions were printed in classical Chinese with diacritical marks (kanbun 漢文) to aid the Japanese reader. This set at hand was translated into modern pre-war Japanese and, as such, became the first version of the text useful to the general Japanese reading public. Binding decorations are quite lovely Deco-inspired floral designs, here still in excellent, clean condition. Complete. One of the most important guides to the medicinal uses of plants in East Asia. .
目 (also Honsō Kōmoku), 15 vols [Bencao Gangmu - Materia Medica], Li Shizhen 李時珍原, author; translated by Makino Tomitaro et al. Shunyodo 春陽堂, publisher Showa 4 [1929] 15 volumes, bound Western-style in decorated cloth over boards, slipcases. The late 16th century Chinese materia medica, Honzō Kōmoku oe草
目, was imported into Japan by the early 17th century. Bencao Gangmu, or "Compendium of Materia Medica," was originally written by Chinese botanist Li Shizhen 李時珍原 (1518-1593). The first Japanese edition appeared in 1637, the definitive enlarged Japanese edition in 1714, with native Japanese plants added. The Edo era versions were printed in classical Chinese with diacritical marks (kanbun 漢文) to aid the Japanese reader. This set at hand was translated into modern pre-war Japanese and, as such, became the first version of the text useful to the general Japanese reading public. Binding decorations are quite lovely Deco-inspired floral designs, here still in excellent, clean condition. Complete. One of the most important guides to the medicinal uses of plants in East Asia. .
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Introduction to Botany, in a Series of Familiar Letters
1811. WAKEFIELD, Priscilla. INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY, IN A SERIES OF FAMILIAR LETTERS, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS. Boston: J. Belcher & J.W. Burditt, 1811. First American Edition from 5th London Edition. Full calf, stamped in gilt to red leather spine label. Ex-library with label to spine and stamps to front pastedown and title page. Bookplate to front pastedown and ownership in ink to ffep. Fire damage to heel affecting bottom corner of some interior pages. Front hinge weak. .
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Histoire Naturelle Des Quinquinas
WEDDELL, Hugh Algernon. HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES QUINQUINAS, ou Monographie du Genre Chinchona, suivie d'une Description du Genre Cascarella et de quelques autres Plantes de la meme Tribu. Ouvrage accompagnee de 21 Planches dessinees par Riocreux et de Steinheil. Paris: Victor Masson, 1849. First edition of Weddell's major work. Illustrated with a frontispiece etching of a South American landscape, thirty botanical plates and a map of the Andes. Large folio. 19x14 in. viii, [3] ff. 108 pp. + XXX ff. + [1] f. Weddell travelled for five years in Peru, Paraguay and Bolivia, identifying fifteen different species of "fever-bark," from which quinine is obtained. He brought back specimens for the Jardin des Plantes, from which chinchona forests were established in the East Indies. The map and the last three plates, which illustrate bark specimens, are beautifully hand-colored. In original printed wrappers, reinforced, repaired, and rebacked. Corners of the first vii pages chipped and dog-eared, not affecting printed area. Small chips to endleaves. Neat owner's signature on title. A very good copy of an important book. (Pritzel 10042; Nissen 2123). Ill.: riocreux.
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The Principles of Botany and Vegetable Physiology
1811. WILLDENOW, D.C. [Actually Willdenow, Karl Ludwig]. THE PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY AND VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY. Translated from the German. A New [Second] Edition, Greatly Enlarged by the Author. Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1811. Octavo. [4] ff. iv, 544 pp. + 11 ff. plates, one hand-colored. Willdenow was the Director of the Berlin Botanical Garden from 1801 until his death in 1812. His greatest contributions were, in an age of exploration, to the creation of the study of the geographical distribution of plants (phytogeography). This is based upon the second edition of his Grundrisse der Kreuterkunde (Berlin, 1792 and 1798). The English edition first appeared in Edinburgh in 1805. Leather, worn, with hinges split and starting, foxing to plates. Library stamps to endpaper and reverse of title. .
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A Manual of Vegetable Materia Medica
1878. WILLS, George S. V. A MANUAL OF VEGETABLE MATERIA MEDICA. London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1878. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. With a large folding, colored world map, and 25 leaves of colored, lithographic plates showing 158 illustrated specimens. Octavo. 114 pp. + 25 ff. plates + [36] pp. appendix + [5] pp. index + [19] ff. ads. Intended for students preparing for examinations in Materia Medica, the appendix includes 873 sample exam questions, unpaginated blank leaves, intended for students' notes, are interleaved throughout the text leaves. Wills ran mail-order courses from the Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy, of which he was Principal. Apparently his students, numbering some 800 at a time, were successful at passing the exams for their certificates in pharmacy. He also published handbooks to the metric system and Caesar's Commentaries. A very good copy, appealing copy with only slight rubbing and smudging, and a light library stamp on the title page. .
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Medical Botany
1832. WOODVILLE, William. MEDICAL BOTANY: Containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburg, and Dublin; together with the principal medicinal plants not included in those pharmacopoeias. [..] The botanical descriptions arranged and corrected by Dr. William Jackson Hooker [..]. The new medico-botanical portion supplied by G. Spratt, [..] under whose immediate inspection the whole of the plates have been coloured. London: John Bohn, 1832. The third and most complete edition of Woodville's classic work: Five volumes, including the first printing of the supplemental fifth volume, which was limited to 200 copies and sold separately. Illustrated with 310 hand-colored plates, 273 of 274 engraved by James Sowerby (1757-1822) and 37 lithographs by George Spratt, including one duplicate plate. Sowerby's plates are numbered, and the missing plate is "Pansie," number 90. Plate number 112 was never published, but the work was issued with two (different) plates numbered 181 as compensation. Spratt's plates are unnumbered, and the duplicate plate is "Cinchona cordifolia." Volumes 1-4 are continuously paginated: 824 pp. + [28] pp. indices. Volume 5: 157 pp. + [12] pp. indices. Quarto, 28 x 18.5 cm (10 by 7.25 in), in modern two-tone (medium green/dark green) cloth bindings with gilt lettering on spines. Ex library, with no external marks and some library marks within, though not excessive: all volumes have stamps to title-page, first text leaf, on verso of a couple of plates, and sometimes on another text page. Nineteenth-century (private ownership) book label on front pastedowns. Occasional light to moderate foxing and/or toning affecting some text pages and plates - though mostly text pages. It is generally clean and bright, and quite attractive overall. First compiled by William Woodville (1752-1805), a Quaker physician and botanist, and issued in parts from 1790 to 1795, MEDICAL BOTANY remained the standard illustrated book of plants of the British pharmacopoeia until the late 1870s. This third edition of MEDICAL BOTANY, edited and expanded by the British botanist William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), who created the modern Royal Garden. .
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A Synopsis of Natural History
1839. WYATT, Thomas. A SYNOPSIS OF NATURAL HISTORY Embracing the Natural History of Animals, with Human and General Animal Physiology, Botany, Vegetable Physiology and Geology. Translated from the Latest French Edition of C. Lemmonnier, with Additions from the Works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede etc.; and Arranged as a Textbook for Schools. Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle, 1839. Contains 49 pleasant lithographic plates of animals, birds, insects, fish, anatomy, and "The Distribution of the Human Races." Octavo. i-viii, 9-192 pp. + 49 ff. plates. Light spotting here and there, and library stamps to endpaper and tissue guard of frontispiece (which is plate 19), otherwise fine in ribbed cloth with gilt-stamped title, with minimal rubbing to corners of binding. A very attractive copy. .
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