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Materia medica e regno vegetabili, sistens simplicia officinalia, pariter atque culinaria.Stockholm, Peter Hesselberg, 1778. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary calf.
by BERGIUS, Peter Jonas
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[16], 448; [2], 449-908, [17], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a materia medica of the vegetable kingdom by the Swedish physician and botanist Peter Jonas Bergius (1730-1790). It opens with an introduction, followed by the description of 571 herbs and other plants, arranged according to their classification. The entries contains the plants names, habitats, appearance and properties, and note which ailments and diseases they can ameliorate and how to process them for simple and compound medicines.Internally in very good condition. Bindings very slightly rubbed, binding of volume 1 stained on the front board and spine, otherwise in good condition.l Blake, p. 43; Krok, Bibliotheca botanica Suecana, p. 76; Wellcome II, p. 148.
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- Materia medica e regno vegetabili, sistens simplicia officinalia, pariter atque culinaria.Stockholm, Peter Hesselberg, 1778. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary calf.
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- BERGIUS, Peter Jonas
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- [G8L0ANJLZU76] MEDICINE & PHARMACY|[G8L0ANJLZU76] MEDICINE & PHARMACY -> [G8L0DHF4KHSG] Herbals & Medical Botany|[G8L0ANJLZU76] MEDICINE & PHARMACY -> [K25A81V2GQQC] Medicine & Pharmacy after 1700|[5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY|[5091845FC46C] NATURAL HIST
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