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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. / By Jacob Bigelow.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection 615.32 B483 v.1
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC8 B4814 817a v.1-2
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879.
Contributor:
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Botany, Medical--United States.
Botany, Medical.
Botany, Medical--Pictorial works.
Materia medica, Vegetable.
United States.
Materia medica, Vegetable--United States.
Genre:
Pictorial works.
Physical Description:
3 volumes, 60 plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Place of Publication:
Boston : Published by Cummings and Hilliard at the Boston Bookstore, [Printed by] University Press (Hilliard and Metcalf), 1817-1820.
Notes:
"The figures of the present volume have been graved and coloured from original drawins made principally by mself. Dissections of the flower and fruit have been added to each for the use of botanical students."--Preface, v. 1.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapter.
U. S. Nat. Lib. of Med. Index - catalogue, I, 2, 46//.
Local Notes:
Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: vol. 3 wanting.
Culture Class Collection copy has label of the Library of the Philadelphia Hospital.
OCLC:
14845314

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