(BOTANICAL) Good Peter Petyo The Family Flora and Materia Me

Sale 1974 - Lot 288

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(BOTANICAL.) Good, Peter Petyo. The Family Flora and Materia Medica Botanica. New Edition. Lithographed additional titles, 98 hand-colored lithographed plates (plates 1-96 and 99 and 100 [complete]). 2 volumes in one. 8vo, publisher's 1/2 sheep, extremities lightly scuffed; front hinge cracked; scattered foxing to the plates. Cambridge and Elizabethtown, (1854-45)

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Complete with 98 plates. This home-grown volume was enormously popular in its day, giving all manner of advice and recipes for the medicinal use of commonly found plants. Plesch, page 239.