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Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel (1783-1840) Medical Flora; or, Manual of the Medical Botany of the United States.
Philadelphia: Atkinson & Alexander, 1828 &1830.
First edition, octavo, illustrated with ninety-nine of 100 botanical woodcuts printed in green; two volumes in one; [4], xii, 268; 276 pages (lacking pages 221/222, 223/224, and plate 43 in the first volume), illustrations in volume oneinterspresed throughout the text opposite the plants' description, all plates in volume two appear together after the text; bound in later sheepskin boards, rebacked; ownership stamp or inscription excised from the title page with glancing loss of words and letters on approximately nine lines, repaired crudely on verso, a few missing letters added in pencil; dampstaining, moderate foxing; 1912 bookplate from the private library of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. C. Deam of Buffington, Indinana inside front board, with note of auction sale in 1910, Charles Deam (1865-1953) was an Indiana State Forester, botanist, and conservationist; 7 x 4 in.
