[SHAKERS]. Catalogue of Medicinal Plants, Barks, Roots, Seeds, Flowers and Select Powders… Albany: Van Benthuysen, ca 1851? [With:] Two single-sheet letterpress advertisements. [Also with:] Five 20th-century works about the Shakers.
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[SHAKERS]. Catalogue of Medicinal Plants, Barks, Roots, Seeds, Flowers and Select Powders.....Raised, Prepared, and put up in the most careful manner by the United Society of Shakers, at New Lebanon, N.Y. Albany: Van Benthuysen, ca 1851?
8vo. 35 pp. (A few blank corners torn away, some staining.) Original printed wrappers, stab-sewn (lacking lower wrapper, upper corner torn away, some soiling). Provenance: Baxter L. Knowlton (signature on cover, Syracuse, NY).
19th-century catalogue for the United Society of Shakers at New Lebanon, NY. Includes a list of abbreviations, a catalogue of seeds, information about pure vegetable extracts in fluid and solid form, ointments and essential oils, plant name synonyms, and remedies.
[With:] Two single-sheet letterpress advertisements, comprising: "The Shaker Vegetable Remedy" and "Shaker Hair Restorer". [Mount Lebanon, NY?], ca 1889. 239 x 150 mm, printed recto and verso. (A few small holes.) -- "List of Garden Seeds Raised by the Society of Shakers, near Albany, NY." [Albany, NY?]: n.p., n.d. 396 x 138 mm, printed recto only. [Also with:] Five 20th-century works about the Shakers, Shaker industries, and Shaker herbs.
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Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
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