John Stephenson and James M. Churchill | Medical Botany, London, 1834-36, 3 vols, nineteenth-century half calf

John Stephenson and James M. Churchill

Medical Botany; or, illustrations of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias, comprising a popular and scientific account of poisonous vegetable indigenous to Great Britain... New edition. London: printed for John Churchill, 1834-1836

3 volumes, 8vo (233 x 143mm.), 187 hand-coloured lithographed plates, nineteenth-century light brown half calf over marbled boards, spines with raised bands in six compartments, later morocco labels to second and fourth compartments, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, plate 100 slightly cropped at outer margin, some others bound tightly

LITERATURE:

cf. Nissen BBI 1891 (edition with 185 plates, dated 1827-1831); cf. Stafleu TL2 13.011 (new edition dated 1800-1835)

PROVENANCE:

"Lettice Harmeer, | from | Sir Evan Nepean, | Appleshaid, | Sep. 4. 1895", i.e. Sir Evan Yorke Nepean, 4th Baronet (1825–1903), inscriptions to front free endpapers