A curious herbal: containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick. Engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings taken from the life. By Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added a short description of ye plants; and their common uses in physick
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Tobacco: v. 1, no. 37 and plate 146. Smaller tobacco: v. 2, no. 110 and plate 437. Originally issued in 125 weekly parts, 1737-1739, each comprising leaf of text and 4 plates. Text "chiefly extracted from Mr. Joseph Miller's Botanicum officinale." Engraved throughout. Plates signed: Eliz. Blackwell delin. sculp. et pinx.