The American vegetable practice, or, A new and improved guide to health. : Designed for the use of families. : In six parts. Part I. Concise view of the human body, with engraved and wood-cut illustrations. Part II. Glance at the old school practice of physic. Part III. Vegetable materia medica, with colored illustrations. Part IV. Compounds. Part V. Practice of medicine, based upon what are deemed correct physiological and pathological principles. Part VI. Guide for women, containing a simplified treatise on childbirth, with a description of the diseases peculiar to females and infants. /

Errata and advertisement for "New England Depot. D.L. Hale" at end of v. 2.

Illustrations include 24 chromolithographs by Sharp, Michelin & Co. after W. Sharp, M. Mattson, Miss C. Neagus, Mrs. Anne Hill; and 2 engravings by J. Drayton after J. Perry.

Vol. 1: xii, [2], 592 p., [26] leaves of plates; v. 2: xix, [6], 598-686, [2] p.

First American book illustrated with chromolithography.

Includes bibliographic references and indexes.

Checklist American imprints,

Bennett, W. Color plate books,

Mode of access: Internet.

Contemporary brown full goatskin; spine tooled or blocked in gold, titled direct; plain brown endpapers.

ACQ: 21714; Morrill; 9 May 1980.