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BIGELOW, Jacob (1787-1879). 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 colored engravings. Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817-1821.
3 volumes, in 6 parts. 4o (266 x 185 mm). 60 plates including 7 hand-colored copperplate engravings, the remainder color-printed (occasional spotting and minor browning). Original green printed boards, uncut (rebacked, new paper spine labels, worn); folding cloth case. Provenance: Emily B. Guerarde (inscriptions; University of Pennsylvania (stamp and withdrawal stamp).
FIRST EDITION, mixed state, OF THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES WITH PLATES PRINTED IN COLOR. Bigelow, professor of materia medica at Harvard, was one of America's greatest botanists. This work was to have been illustrated with hand-colored copperplates, but as the first illustrations for Volume I, Part I were prepared, this method proved too slow and expensive. Bigelow turned to an alternative method, believed to be the use of etched stone, a technique recently developed in Europe, but barely known in America at the time. VERY RARE COMPLETE SET IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Austin 205; Bennett, p.11; Cleveland Collections 804; Cushing B384; Garrison-Morton 1842; Heirs of Hippocrates 1444; Nissen BBI 164; Pritzel 733; Sabin 5294; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 514; Norman 234. (6)
3 volumes, in 6 parts. 4
FIRST EDITION, mixed state, OF THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES WITH PLATES PRINTED IN COLOR. Bigelow, professor of materia medica at Harvard, was one of America's greatest botanists. This work was to have been illustrated with hand-colored copperplates, but as the first illustrations for Volume I, Part I were prepared, this method proved too slow and expensive. Bigelow turned to an alternative method, believed to be the use of etched stone, a technique recently developed in Europe, but barely known in America at the time. VERY RARE COMPLETE SET IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Austin 205; Bennett, p.11; Cleveland Collections 804; Cushing B384; Garrison-Morton 1842; Heirs of Hippocrates 1444; Nissen BBI 164; Pritzel 733; Sabin 5294; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 514; Norman 234. (6)