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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lambert, Aylmer Bourke, 1761-1842. Illustration of the genus Cinchona. London : Printed for John Searle, 77 Lower Grosvenor-Street and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, ; Printed by R. Wilks, 89 Chancery Lane, 1821 (OCoLC)719420353 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Aylmer Bourke Lambert; Weddell; Alexander von Humboldt; Charles Jean Laubert; Hipólito Ruiz |
OCLC Number: | 5016997 |
Notes: | Printer from colophon. "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.]. |
Description: | IX, [1], 181, [1] p., [5] folded leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 33 cm. |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | by Aylmer Bourke Lambert ... |
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