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Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States; or Medical Botany.
Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son, 1817 - 1818. 2 vols in 1. Quarto (275x220 mm). 50 hand-colored engraved plates. Contemporary half roan. Condition: some offsetting of the text onto the plates as usual, age toning to the text, very minor marginal dampstaining along the lower fore-edge, scattered minor foxing, front free endpaper detached; spine darkened, binding rubbed at extremities. among the first botanical works with colored plates published in america. Issued the same year as Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany, the plates in Barton's Vegetable Materia Medica were after his own drawings and, according to the Preface, colored by Barton himself. “A key book - obviously” ( Bennett ). Austin 149; Bennett, page 9; Dunthorne 25; Garrison-Morton 1841; Great Flower Books 48; Nissen BBI 85; Norman 127; Pritzel 444; Sabin 3863.