The Family Flora and Materia Medica Botanica, containing the Botanical Analysis, Natural History, and Chemical and Medical Properties and Uses of Plants
de GOOD, Peter P.;
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Cambridge, Mass, Peter P. Good, 1854, . . later full green morocco leather, gilt spine title lettering, some light foxing or offsetting from plates on few leaves but a clean fine set. . 8vo [924 x 15.5 cm]; 2 volumes, both half titles, extra tinted lithographed title in each volume, 98 hand colored plates (numbered 1 - 96, 99, 100, as called for), with tissue guards, ads in volume I has lithographed portrait plate of author. . Plesch 294. Bennet p 46. McGrath 46. Aatwater 1377. Not in Nissen. The 1st edition of 1845 had only 48 color plates. The book was expanded with double the number of plates and this is the preferred edition. Each plate has 4 pages of descriptive text, blank leaf and tissue guard, plus this copy has the lithographed plate of the author. This set also has the two hand colored plates on Linnaean Classification. A picture of this book is available on request by email.
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- The Family Flora and Materia Medica Botanica, containing the Botanical Analysis, Natural History, and Chemical and Medical Properties and Uses of Plants
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- GOOD, Peter P.;
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- Later full green morocco leather, gilt spine title lettering, some light foxing or offsetting from plates on few leaves but a cl
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- Cambridge, Mass, Peter P. Good, 1854, .
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- 8vo [924 x 15.5 cm]; 2 volumes,
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- Nature - Botany;
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