Medical flora Botany Botanical book 1828 Phila. by Rafinesque 50 color plant plates
Medical flora Botany Botanical book 1828 Phila. by Rafinesque 50 color plant plates Medical flora Botany Botanical book 1828 Phila. by Rafinesque 50 color plant plates Medical flora Botany Botanical book 1828 Phila. by Rafinesque 50 color plant plates Medical flora Botany Botanical book 1828 Phila. by Rafinesque 50 color plant plates Medical flora Botany Botanical book 1828 Phila. by Rafinesque 50 color plant plates
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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, with their Names, Qualities, Properties, History, &c: and Notes or Remarks on Nearly 500 Equivalent Substitutes, by C. S. Rafinesque.
Self-published 1828, Philadelphia by Atkinson & Alexander.
268 pages. 50 tinted botanical plates (of 52).

Period publisher's paper covered boards, untrimmed deckled edges as issued. Front cover detached, binding shaken, signatures loose & separating, plates often with some offsetting. 

Rare book in any condition, an early American book with colored plates.

First of a two volume set, book contains plants listed alphabetically A-H. The second volume was issued 2 years later in 1830.

Book measures: 8" H X 4 3/4" W.

[V2029].

Nissen, Botany, 1579.

"Rafinesque's most important work was his Medical Flora. It must be remembered that medical treatment was at that time largely based on vegetable drugs and what Rafinesque sought was to write a medical botany adapted to the needs of the American physician and pharmacist" (Lilly 137).