Hall, James (1811–98). 1843. WITH LARGE GEOLOGICAL MAP.
Geology of New York. Part IV. Comprising the Survey of the Fourth Geological District. (Albany: Printed by Carroll and Cook, 1843.) Issued as part of the series Natural History of New York (New York: D. Appleton & Co. and Wiley & Putnam, 1843). First edition, xxii, 683, decorative cloth. Quarto, 11 ¾” x 9 ¼”. Steel-engraved general title. Spine lettered in gilt, raised bands. Gilt illustrated front cover. A good, solid volume with the cloth worn at corners, spine strip is chipped at top and bottom. Binding is strong and intact. Scattered foxing. Good condition.

Collates complete. Illustrated with 192 wood engraved figures in the text; 3 lithographed plates in the text, one of which is a survey map of Niagara Falls; “Tables of Organic Remains” (fossils) on 34 plates; folding map: “Sections Explanatory of a Geological Map of the Middle and Western States”, in color, after page 683; followed by 13 folding plates and 6 single-page plates, most in color. The one large folding color map is detached and is included with the book. For details on the map see “Antique Maps” “United States”.

Millspaugh, Charles Frederick. 1887. MEDICINAL PLANTS WITH 14 CHROMO PLATES.
American Medicinal Plants: an Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to the American Plants Used as Homœopathic Remedies: Their History, Preparation, Chemistry and Physiological Effects. New York and Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel, 1887. 8 ½”w x 11 ¼”h. Plates and text in very good condition. Tight binding, apparently seldom opened. Contents very good and clean without foxing. The front cover is worn and starting to separate; most of the spine cover is missing.

This is a one-volume “Prospectus”; that is, it contains a sample of the plates and their related text. The text covers description, history and habitat, part used and preparation, chemical constituents including formulas, and physiological action for each plant. There are14 chromolithographed plates (of 180 total illustrated by the author for the full three-volume set).

The plates and text include:

2. Hepatica. (Lover Leaf)
9. Hydrastis. (Golden Seal)
17. Podophyllum. (May Apple)
23. Sinapis Alba. (White Mustard)
29. Drosera. (Sundew)
40. Ampelopsis. (Virginian Creeper)
46. Genista. (Dyer’s Broom)
69. Aralia Racemosa. (Spikenard)
87. Artemsia Vulgaris. (Mugwort)
105. Monotropa. (Indian Pipe)
119. Collinsonia. (Stone-Root)
139. Phytolacca. (Poke Weed)
155. Lupulus. (Hop)
178. Lilium Superbum. (Turk’s Cap Lily). Shown at the right.

There an Appendix with a partial glossary of botanical names.

Charles Frederick Millspaugh (1854-1923) was a physician and academic who headed the botany department at West Virginia University and was curator of botany at the Field Museum in Chicago until his death in 1923. Widely regarded as the definitive study of American indigenous and naturalized plants of the nineteenth century, this work still referenced today and reproduced in paperback. The plates of the prospectus are dedicated to his father, John Hill Millspaugh, who was an artist. The text is dedicated to his professor, Timothy Allen.