BOSSU, Antonin. - Traité des plantes médicinales indigènes. - Lot 11

BOSSU, Antonin. - Traité des plantes médicinales indigènes. Description, properties, uses, harvesting, preparations and therapeutic indications preceded by an elementary course in botany... also containing advice on the formation of herbariums, general principles of medicine and therapeutics... a memorial of diseases to be treated by plants. Accompanied by an atlas of 60 intaglio plates... plus 92 figures in the text. Troisième édition corrigée, augmentée, refondue dans plusieurs de ses parties - Paris, Delahaye, Germer Baillière, 1872 - In-8, XXIV, 864, IV pp. 60 color plates; brown half-chagrin, ribbed spine decorated with cold-stamped boxes (period binding). Third and last edition, the most complete. It features 60 color plates with hundreds of botanical figures. (Pritzel, Thesaurus literaturæ botanicæ, 1048 - Nissen, Die botanische Buchillustration, 216 - Plesch, Mille et un livres botaniques, pp. 152-153).