Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1444

JACOB BIGELOW (1787-1879) American medical botany. Cummings and Hilliard 1817-1820 Vol. I: xi, 197 pp., col. plates 1-20; Vol. II: xvi, 199 pp., col. plates 21-40; Vol. III: x, 197 pp., col. plates 41-60. 23.2 cm.

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It was Bigelow's great love of botany and the publication of this beautifully executed work that brought him most of his well-deserved acclaim. The sixty colored plates and the detailed but clearly written text mark it as one of the finest botanical treatises ever published in America.

Cited references: Austin 205; Cushing B384; Garrison-Morton 1842