American medical botany : being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States : containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts : with coloured engravings / by Jacob Bigelow, M.D., Rumford professor and lecturer on materia medica and botany in Harvard University.

American medical botany : being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States : containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts : with coloured engravings / by Jacob Bigelow, M.D., Rumford professor and lecturer on materia medica and botany in Harvard University.

Boston : Published by Cummings and Hilliard, at the Boston Bookstore, 1817-1820 [i.e. 1817-1821] ([Cambridge, Mass.] : University Press, Hilliard and Metcalf)

6 pts. (3 v.) : 60 col. ill. ; 26 cm

For detailed description of publishing history, illustration process and publisher's binding, see Wolfe, R.J. Jacob Bigelow's American medical botany. North Hills, Pa. : Bird and Bull Press, l979.

Each volume issued in two parts, paged continuously. Vol. 3, pt. 1-2 in the original gray-green paper boards; all but v. 1, pt. 1 have special half-title.

Vol. 1: xi p., p. [17]-197, [1] p., xx leaves of plates; v. 2: xvi p., p. [15]-199, [1] p., leaves xxi-xl of plates; v. 3: x p., p. [11]-197, [1] p., leaves xli-lx of plates.

Illustrations: Full-page etchings, some signed W.B. Annin or Annin & Smith, after drawings by Bigelow. Vol. 1, pt. 1: issued also with plates hand-colored. Vol. 1, pt. 2-v. 3, pt. 2: plates probably etched on stone and printed in color (some touched up by hand).

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, no. 205
Bennet, W. American 19th-cent. color plate books, p. 11
Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, 164

United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.

245- 209q

Folger copy: Bookplate of Mary P. Massey.