Botanical description and medical, culinary & other uses of the plants in the first volume of my American herbarium [mansucript] : principally compiled from the latest & most approved writers on botany and materia medica / by Stephen W. Williams ... [1817-1900?]

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Botanical description and medical, culinary & other uses of the plants in the first volume of my American herbarium [mansucript] : principally compiled from the latest & most approved writers on botany and materia medica / by Stephen W. Williams ... [1817-1900?]

Contains material copied by Stephen West Williams from various sources; watercolors of plants by his wife, Harriet Goodhue Williams; and botanical prints by several artists and lithographers, including Caroline Negus, D.W. Moody, E. Whitefield, and Lewis and Brown (from a journal titled, "Monthly flora")

1 v. ; 26 cm.

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Historic Deerfield Library

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Lewis & Brown

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Moody, D. W. (Dan W.), b. 1853.

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Negus, Caroline, 1814-1867

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Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892

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Edwin Whitefield was born in England in 1816, immigrating to the United States ca. 1840. Between 1840 and 1855, he studied and taught drawing in New York and New England. In the latter 1850s, he became a real estate speculator in the Minnesota territory and became involved in land and and townsite promotion in what is now Kandiyohi County and the Sauk River Valley, Minn. Between 1860 and 1864 he lived in Chicago, but spent his final years in Massachusetts until his death in 1892. Edwin's son Wil...

Williams, Stephen W. (Stephen West), 1790-1855

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