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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Family Flora and Materia Medica Botanica |
| Reference | 11796.O |
| Library | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Date | 1845 |
| Author | Good, Peter P. |
| Publisher / Printer / Lithographer | Good, Peter P. |
| Place of Creation | Elizabethtown, New Jersey |
| Description | People with more pretensions – and dollars – could purchase full-length herbals embellished with engraved illustrations individually coloured by hand, which were not only beautiful but "true to life." |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Botanic Medicine |
| Keywords | botany, medicine, pharmacology, chemistry |
| Additional Information | The complete work was issued serially in 96 parts. The first completed edition was issued at New York by the author in 1845 as 'The family flora and materia medica botanica', and also as 'A materia medica botanica'. |
| Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan. |
| Copyright | The Library Company of Philadelphia |