The medicinal and poisonous plants of Southern Africa: being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal by Watt, John Mitchell and Maria Gerdina Breyer-Brandwijk - 1962

London: John Murray, 1850. New edition. Small square octavo, pp xvi, 144, (4). + publisher's catalogue 8 pages, with 12 lithographed plates, delicately hand-coloured, all edges gilt, very clean internally, a contemporary signature on the front endpaper [Charles H. Hingeston, 1852], original blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover, slightly faded, a little worn at the corners, very neatly re-backed with a modern cloth spine, unlettered. Still a very pleasing copy of a work which is difficult to find in good condition. [In many ways a ground-breaking work, as was much of Mantell's opus. It alerted the Victorians to an aspect of natural history which had previously largely escaped them, and was a remarkable precursor to the germ theory.]. Cloth. Very Good.

London: John Murray, 1849. Octavo, pp viii, 212 [+ 16 page publisher's catalogue dated October 1848), slightly used and marked internally, corners slightly bruised throughout, a couple of pages opened slightly carelessly, a folding facsimile manuscript plate, a contemporary signature on the front endpaper, original cloth slightly worn and marked, corners bruised, the spine a little worn and lacking tiny pieces at head and tail. A duplicate from the Royal Society of London itself, with their stamp on the title page.. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1975. Nearly 2,700 illustrations from woodcuts, large thick quarto, pp (38), 1632, (46), slight foxing to the fore and other edges, otherwise clean internally, the fore-edge is convex due to the weight of the book and the spine conversely concave, otherwise a good cloth-bound copy, in a slightly worn and torn dustwrapper which is faded on its spine. [Very heavy - extra postage may be needed.]. Cloth. Very Good/A little worn and frayed.

Vindobonae [Vienna]: Joannis Thomae Trattner, 1763. ["A little book which shows Colchicum autumnale (Meadow Saffron) root not only safe for human use, but also useful for internal cures whenever diseases, difficult to cure, will not yield to other medicines".]. Small octavo, illustrated with one folding engraved plate (a little foxed around the margins and with a corner creased), pp 96, some foxing but otherwise firm throughout, the verso of the title pages has an early stamp of an Austrian library, also with the perforated stamp of the John Crerar library and its tiny withdrawn stamp, an early signature on the title page, with the attractive bookpate of the Crerar Library on the front endpaper, the free front endpaper nearly detached. red quarter morocco and marbled boards, rubbed . [Anton von Storck (1731 - 1803) was an Austrian physician. Storck is remembered for his clinical research of various herbs, and their associated toxicity and medicinal properties. His studies are considered to… Read More