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Circumstantial information on the plants used in Dutch pharmacology, by a famous botanist

MIQUEL, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm.
Leerboek der artsenij-gewassen. Nieuwe uitgave, in verband met de Nederlandsche apotheek.
Utrecht, Amsterdam, C. van der Post, 1859. 8vo. Original publishers boards covered with grey paper with printed title in ornamental border and shortened title on spine. XVI, LX, 406 pp.
€ 400
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (l811-1871), born in Germany, was a famous Dutch botanist, who focussed his study primarily on the flora of the Dutch East Indies.
Next to his scientific works like the Flora Indiae Batavae (Amsterdam, 4 vols., 1855-1859), Miquel published this more practical handbook on pharmaceutical plants for students and practitioners, including very circumstantial information on the plants used in Dutch pharmacology. The present first edition appeared in the year Miquel was appointed in Utrecht.
A bifolium contains the half-title on one leaf and two copies of the shortened title meant for the spine and was supposed to have been bound before the title-page with one of the shortened titles cut out and pasted on the spine, but in this copy the bifolium is bound between pp. xxxviii and xxxix (fol. C4 and C5). Worn copy with the spine missing, therefore the book is very vulnerable and the quires nearly fall apart. Still in good condition with all its faults. Stoeder, 422; NNBW, VI, 986-987.
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