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Lot 65
Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
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Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$300 -
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$640
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Lot Description
[NATURAL HISTORY]. MILLSPAUGH, Charles F. (1854-1923). American Medicinal Plants; An Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to the American Plants Used as Homeopathic Remedies. New York and Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel, 1887.
2 volumes, small 4to. 180 chromolithographic plates, some folding. (Occasional spotting, some marginal toning.) Contemporary quarter red morocco, gilt-lettered spines (spines darkened, some rubbing to joints). Provenance: L.H. Pennington (stamps).
FIRST EDITION in book form. Nissen BBI 1381; Bennett, p.78 ("the outstanding Homeopathic Materia Medica").
Property from the Estate of Peter Fortsas