An illustration of the genus Cinchona : comprising descriptions of all the officinal Peruvian barks including several new species ; Baron de Humboldt's Account of the Cinchona forests of South America, and Laubert's Memoir on the different species of Quinquina ; to which are added several dissertations of Don Hippolito Ruiz on various medicinal plants of South America ; with several plates ; and a short account of the spikenard of the ancients, with a plate
Print Book, English, 1821
Printed for John Searle ; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ... ; Printed by R. Wilks ..., London, 1821
IX, [1], 181, [1] p., [5] folded leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 33 cm.
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Humboldt (Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, baron von) On the cinchona forest of South America, pp. 19-59. ; Laubert Memoir on the different species of quinquina, pp. 60-82. ; Ruiz (Hippolito don) Description of the tree known in the kingdom of Peru under the name of quinquino, and of its bark, called quinquina, pp. 92-97. ; Ruiz (Hippolito don) Memoir on the genuine calaguala, and two other roots, which are bent under the same name from South America, pp. 98-124 ; Memoir on the virtues and uses of the root of the plant called yallhoy, in Peru, pp. 131-147 ; Memoir on the virtues and uses of the plant called in Peru the star-seed, pp. 148-170
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"The great additions made to the genus Cinchona since the publication of the author's former account [Description of the genus Cinchona. London, 1797] ... have induced him to give the following Illustration, which may be considered as supplementary or as forming a distinct work"--Preface
Plates are signed: Weddell fecit [or sc.]