William Woodville's "Medical botany" now on-line

[Jim Solomon]

Dear Colleagues,

The Missouri Botanical Garden is pleased to announce that William
Woodville's Medical Botany, published 1790-1793, has now been digitized and
can be viewed on-line at:

http://ridgwaydb.mobot.org/mobot/rarebooks/title.asp?relation=QK91C7431790V1

Title: Medical botany : containing systematic and general descriptions, with
plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in
the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of
Physicians of London and Edinburgh : accompanied with a circumstantial
detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have
been most successfully employed / by William Woodville ...

Author: Woodville, William

Publisher: London : Printed and sold for the author by James Phillips ... ,
1790-1793.

Description: 3 v. (578 p., [210] leaves of plates) : ill. (copper
engravings) ; cm. (4to in 2s)

Notes: The first 10 plates are unnumbered.  Includes bibliographical
references and indices.
Vol. 1, p. 25-26 incorrectly bound following p. 28.
Vol. 2, plates 81-83, 131, 133 bound out of place.
Vol. 3, plates 181-185 bound out of place.
References: Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.) 2183.  Stafleu
(2nd) 18.272.  Pritzel (2nd) 10398.  Soulsby 743.

Any questions or comments may be directed to Chris Freeland
(chris.freeland at mobot.org).


James C. Solomon
Curator of the Herbarium
Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299
e-mail: jim.solomon at mobot.org