WITHERING WILLIAM An Account of the Foxglove and Some of it

Sale 1968 - Lot 324

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WITHERING ON FOXGLOVE WITHERING, WILLIAM. An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medical Uses: with Practical Remarks on Dropsy, and Other Diseases. Large folding hand-colored engraved plate of digitalis purpurea by James Sowerby. [2], xx, [2], 207, [1] pages, including initial leaf (blank except for signature "a" on recto) and half-title. 8vo, contemporary sheep, rebacked, cover corners restored; short clean tear in corner of plate discreetly repaired, modern owner's embossed stamp on initial leaf and title, early owner's signature on title, scattered pencil marginalia. Birmingham: M. Swinney for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London, 1785

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