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The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia by Schultes, Richard; Ruffauf, Robert - 1990

by Schultes, Richard; Ruffauf, Robert

The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia by Schultes, Richard; Ruffauf, Robert - 1990

The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia

by Schultes, Richard; Ruffauf, Robert

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
Portland, OR: Dioscorides Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed by both authors with inscription by Schultes. First edition. 484 pp. Bluish green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with slightly bumped corners in Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine, two small tears at head and tail, lightly worn at edges. Warmly inscribed to banker Arthur Altschul by Schultes at top of title page, with his and Ruffauf's signatures beneath that. An uncommon signed copy of an in-depth Amazonian botanical book by the father of modern ethnobotany.
  • Bookseller Burnside Rare Books, ABAA US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Jacket Condition Very Good
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Dioscorides Press
  • Place of Publication Portland, OR
  • Date Published 1990
  • Keywords hallucinogens, Amazon rainforest, drugs, plants, botany, Brazil, tropical, medicine, medicinal, forest