(BOTANICAL) Carson Joseph Illustrations of Medical Botany

Sale 1974 - Lot 271

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(BOTANICAL.) Carson, Joseph. Illustrations of Medical Botany. 100 hand-colored lithographed plates, finished with gum arabic. 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary 1/2 morocco, extremities rubbed, rebacked with the original backs retained; text moderately foxed throughout, plates with occasional light foxing and offsetting but generally quite clean. Philadelphia, 1847

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"The most elaborate work of medical botany was that of Dr. Joseph Carson of Philadelphia"--Reese, American Color Plate Books 16; Nissen, Botany 333; Bennett, page 20; Pritzel 1545.