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RAFINESQUE, CONSTANTINE SAMUEL. Medical Flora; or, Manual of the Medical Botany of the United States of North America. Containing a Selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants...and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes. Philadelphia: Printed and published by Atkinson & Alexander [vol. 2: by Samuel C. Atkinson] 1828-30.
2 vols., 12mo, vol. 1: 197 x 118 mm. (7 3/4 x 4 5/8 in.), vol. 2: 185 x 114 mm. (7 5/16 x 4 3/8 in.), original linen-backed printed paper over pasteboards (publisher's ads on lower covers), original paper spine labels, vol. 2 uncut, vol. 1 split down spine and along front joint, repaired with careful if amateurish stitching, similar stitched repairs to loose signatures K and L, vol. 2 covers foxed, covers slightly wormed, a few plates detaching slightly along gutter, faint offsetting of text to plates in vol. 1, some foxing to vol. 2.
FIRST EDITION, 100 plates of woodcuts printed in green ink.
Rafinesque undertook the publication of his researches into the herbal properties of American plants, having "made a bargain with a printer" (Life of Travels, p. 86) shortly after his final retirement to Philadelphia. Medical botany had been the principal subject of his lectures at Transylvania University during the last two years of his Professorship there, before he grew weary of "struggl[ing] against the influence of the foes of sciences" (Life of Travels, p. 75), personified by the President of the University, and departed in 1826 for two years of travel through the Eastern states.
Fitzpatrick 554; Nissen BBI 1579; Sabin 67457; Stafleu TL-2 8579.
Provenance:
Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955)
Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966).
2 vols., 12mo, vol. 1: 197 x 118 mm. (7 3/4 x 4 5/8 in.), vol. 2: 185 x 114 mm. (7 5/16 x 4 3/8 in.), original linen-backed printed paper over pasteboards (publisher's ads on lower covers), original paper spine labels, vol. 2 uncut, vol. 1 split down spine and along front joint, repaired with careful if amateurish stitching, similar stitched repairs to loose signatures K and L, vol. 2 covers foxed, covers slightly wormed, a few plates detaching slightly along gutter, faint offsetting of text to plates in vol. 1, some foxing to vol. 2.
FIRST EDITION, 100 plates of woodcuts printed in green ink.
Rafinesque undertook the publication of his researches into the herbal properties of American plants, having "made a bargain with a printer" (Life of Travels, p. 86) shortly after his final retirement to Philadelphia. Medical botany had been the principal subject of his lectures at Transylvania University during the last two years of his Professorship there, before he grew weary of "struggl[ing] against the influence of the foes of sciences" (Life of Travels, p. 75), personified by the President of the University, and departed in 1826 for two years of travel through the Eastern states.
Fitzpatrick 554; Nissen BBI 1579; Sabin 67457; Stafleu TL-2 8579.
Provenance:
Dr. Evan Morton Evans (1870-1955)
Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966).