The family flora and materia medica botanica
Subtitle: containing the botanical analysis, natural history, and chemical and medicinal properties of plants: illustrated by colored engravings of original drawings, copied from nature
By: By Peter P. Good
Publisher: Published by the author
Published: 1845
Place of publication: Elizabethtown, N.J
Language: eng
Subjects: Plants; Medicinal Plants; Botanical chemistry; Medical Botany; Herbs; Vegetable Materia medica; Chemistry; Materia Medica
Notes: Additional tinted lithograph title-plate "Good's Family Flora"

T.p. of vol. 2: "A New Edition, Revised And Enlarged"

Issued in numbers, copyright dated 1845, preface dated September 1845, inserted advertisements dated 1851.

Collation (not including advertisements): vol.I: [2], V, 4, VI-XVIII, [192] p., add. t.-pl., [48] leaves of plates; vol.II: 32, [192] p., add. t.-pl., [50] leaves of plates.

Each plate is separated from the text by an additional blank leaf and a guard sheet.

Copy 1 Vol. 1 Supplier/Donor: SS President Garfield consignment (acc. no. 90768) Note: With 22 pages of advertisements for this and other works by the author bound in, plus a lithograph portrait of his uncle John Mason Good, M.D. Binding: contemp. blind-stamped black cloth, gilt spine title. Engraved book-plates of Joshua Riley, M.D., and Dr. John C. Riley, Washington, D.C. #90768.

Copy 1 Vol. 2 Supplier/Donor: SS President Garfield consignment (acc. no. 90768) Note: Binding and book-plates as vol.I.