Portland, OR: Timber Press, (2004). Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive look at the medicinal uses of more than 400 species used by the people of Britain and Ireland. Based on firsthand accounts captured by surveys, on more than 1000 manuscript volumes of the Irish Folklore Commission, and on 300 other published and unpublished sources. Includes illustrations from herbals such as those by Bock, Fuchs, and Brunfels, a map and a selection of color photographs by Deni Bown. Includes an appendix on veterinary remedies, sources and indexes of folk uses, scientific names and vernacular names. 431 pp. ISBN: 0-881926388.

Tiburon, CA: Waters Edge Press, (1997). Hardcover first edition - Illustrated throughout in full color.Everything imaginable about this plant, from his history in Aztec days to how it became a symbol of Christmas and how to care fro the plants. Bibliography, index. Square format, 63 pp. ISBN: 0-965622495.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Two journalists who came back from an assignment in Indian Country with a powerful message for humankind share the intensely personal story surrounding their time with the Wisdomkeepers, and continue to extoll the Native American approach to humanity and life." Photographs. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-684800942.

Oxford, New York & Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects in one volume information about the poisonous plants that can be found in Pakistan which previously could only be found in scattered, specialized scientific papers. A beautiful book, in which detailed descriptions of the plants are accompanied by author's own accurate full color botanical drawing which highlight the poisonous parts of each plant. Of interest especially since otherwise toxic or poisonous plant extracts can have therapeutic value at lower dosage levels. Includes notes and references with each plant, plus glossary of botanical and medical terms, index of common English names and botanical names. xv, 512 pp. ISBN: 9780195977899.

Algonic, MI: Reference Publications, Inc., (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Caribbean islands have had a long acquaintance with herbal medicine in the form of "bush teas" going back to the early days of slavery and using both plants introduced from West Africa and indigenous plants. Illustrated with full page botanical drawings throughout. The second book in the series "Medicinal Plants of the World." Includes notes, glossary, bibliography, medicinal index, common names index and index to species. 282 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-917256123.

New Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta & New York: Amerind Publishing, (1976). Hardcover first edition - An uncommon monograph, translated from the Russian. Illustrated with photographs, maps (including one folding map). References. 68 pp.

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - A publication of the Institute for the Study of Human Problems, Stanford University. Each volume has a bibliography and index. xvi, 400 pp. xix, 399 pp. ISBN: 0-87589-0334; 0-87589-0342.

Boulder, CO: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Focuses primarily on plants as they were used by Native Americans in North America. "Useful as a reference book and inspires the reader to look again at the plant world as a source of life and healing." INSCRIBED on the half title page "For -- in the spirit of the plants" and dated in 1997. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Includes 19 full color botanical plates by Cyncie Marini. Foreword by Brooke Medicine Eagle. Appendices, index. 210 pp. ISBN: 1-570980853.

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket: "Whatever reason is given for being ill, a vast body of preventive and therapeutic folk medicine and practice has evolved through the centuries. Many of these 'cures' have a surprisingly scientific basis, and, in the light of modern knowledge, are far more efficacious than might be imagined from the beliefs on which they are founded. This fascinating book examine folk medicine from many countries, traces its origins and development and describes its surprising survival into this scientific and computerized age." Illustrated, bibliography, index. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-800850467.

Sydney: Anthropological Society of New South Wales, 1953. First edition - In addition to the featured article on "The Healing Art in Primitive Society" this includes articles on the discovery of adze heads in New Guinea and a selection of children's songs from Ooldea in W. South Australia. Illustrated with maps and drawings. pp 394 to 434.

New York: Walker, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Armchair adventure for the reader with a keen interest in both natural history and exotic culture... Here is an 'on the road'tale that combines a naturist's observations, misadventures, encounters with birds and people - and discoveries about himself - during several months in backcountry Mexico." Accounts of life among the Nahuat Indians, and several sections describing the birds. Illustrated with drawings by Kelli Glancey.Index. xi, 196 pp. ISBN: 0-802711529.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Lone Pine Publishing (1992). First edition - The author, a Harvard ethnobotanist, writes with empathy and understanding and personal experience about indigenous tribes from the tropics to the Arctic circle. Included are chapters on shamanic healing, the plants of the gods - and on the end of the wild. Photographs. 156 pp. ISBN: 1551050269.

San Francisco: North Point Press, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "One of the oldest and longest of American creation myths, this oral tale has been gathered in Venezuela over the past 15 years by Marc de Civirieux, one of South America's leading anthropologists." Edited and translated by David Guss. Preface and glossary. Photographs. viii, 195 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-86547-0022.

Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, (2010). First edition - An exploration of supernatural and natural healing practices all over the world through 270 colonial postcards from a private collection, published in conjunction with an exhibition of these postcards in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, 2009. Shown in their original colors, the cards are a rich source of visual information about native health and healing, but also a source which needs to be considered with care, since many reflect the colonial prejudices and racist attitudes of the time. Notes, references. Large format. 215 pp. ISBN: 978-9460220173.

Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, (2009). First edition - An account of almost half a century of pioneering research in the Amazon and Peru by this noted anthropologist studying hallucinogens, including ayahuasca. Although the Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes was credited in the early 1950s as being the first to document the use of ayahuasca, other researchers, including de Rios, were responsible for furthering his findings and uncovering the curative capabilities of this compound. Illustrated with photographs, including some in full color. Glossary, list of publications by de Rios, bibliography, index. xvi, 190 pp. ISBN: 9781594773136.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1979) dj. Hardcover - An account of some of the early botanists, explorers and foot-loose travellers brought us such things as coffee, tea and chocolate, spices from black pepper to nutmeg, cloves and more - as well as medicinal herbs like quinine from the "fever bark tree." Bibliography, index. vii, 278 pp. ISBN: 0-070172900.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973. First edition - An essay by Durrell on his experience with Ludo Chardenon, a herbalist in Arles, Provence. Cover blocks by Margaret Wilson. The fifth title in the 'Yes! Capra Chapbook Series' edited by Robert Durand and Noel Young. Illustrated with small decorations and woodcuts throughout. 25 pp plus a facsimile copy of Chardenon's preparations and plants, a final woodcut, a photograph of Chardenon and Durrell and the colophon. ISBN: 0-912264-519.

(Porto-Novo (Benin) STRC / OUA, 1996. First edition - Published under the auspices of the Scientific, Technical and Research Commission (STRC) of the Organization of African Unity, this is the first comprehensive survey of the medicinal plants of the area, including many which are indigenous to Cameroon. Each plant is described in alpahabetical order and is illustrated by a line drawing. Also includes listings of the major diseases and their treatments, a glossary, an index of the medicinal plants by disease, an index of the vernacular names of these plants and more. vi, 641 pp. ISBN: 9782453661.

New York: The Guilford Press, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the survival, adaptation and utilization of traditional medical systems in a rapidly modernizing country and suggests that a collaboration between traditional and Western biomedicine would advance the goals of community health. Photographs, references, index. xxi, 354 pp. ISBN: 0-89862-7796.

Bedford Hills, NY: Redgrave Publishing, (1986). Hardcover first edition - A multidisciplinary approach to this topic with contributions by 18 writers, and an introduction to each section by the editor. Included are papers on Folk Anti-cancer Plants by James Duke; Aztec Medicinal Herbs by Bernard Ortiz de Montellano; Coca in Andean Cultural Perspective by Jim Weil and much more. Illustrated with photographs, diagrams and tables. Index. xii, 336 p. : ill. ISBN: 0-913178020.

New York: William Wood & Company, 1887. Hardcover first edition - Translated by Frederick B. Power from the second and completely revised (and expanded) edition of 'Grundlagen der Pharmaceutischen Waarenkunde,' originally published in Germany in 1873. Includes 186 illustrations in the text. Index. xiv, 294 pp.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1980. First edition - Includes detailed information on the pottery and ethnobotanical remains found in the cliff dwellings of the area, illustrated with photographs, line drawings, charts and maps. Number 36 of the Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona, a peer-reviewed monograph series sponsored by the School of Anthropology, which publishes archaeological and ethnographic papers that use contemporary method and theory to investigate problems of anthropological importance in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and related areas.
References, index. Large format. xii, 218 pp. ISBN: 0-816503605.

Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, (1955) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A compilation of words and expressions relating principally to natural medicinal and pharmaceutical materials and the plants from which they are derived." Several appendices, including H, New Entries Supplement. Lists of abbreviations and symbols. xxv, 284 pp.

New York: William Wood and Company, (1884). Hardcover - A rather scarce American colorplate work of medical botany. a title in Wood's Library of Standard American Authors. Among other things, Johnson was a lecturer on medical botany at the Medical department of the City University of New York. Notable for its Illustrated with nine striking chromolithographs [including frontispiece] by H. Benke and numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. Not in Bennett, nor in McGrath. Index. xi, 292 pp

Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press (1984). An intimate portrait of the last surviving Comanche Eagle doctor based on field research for a 3 year period beginning in 1967. Jones was not only an intimate observer, he was adopted by Sanapia as her son. Among other things, he talks about her treatment of 'ghost sickness' and how she was able to adapt to 3 different religious systems - the Christianity of her father, the peyotism of her uncle and grandfather and the Plains Indians pattern of vision quests as represented by her mother, also an Eagle Doctor. Map frontispiece. Photographs. References, recommended reading. xvii, 107 pp. ISBN: 0-88133041.

Pretoria, Union of South Africa: By the Government Printer, 1941. First edition - A slim volume considered the most authoritative work on the Zulu Izangoma diviners and healers. The introduction notes that the statements contained in this publication were obtained by Kohler when he was practicing as a mission doctor in Natal. They were mostly dictated to a native amanuensis by patients and informants. The second section is on Iqondo, which is the use of magic spells. Each section in English is followed by a transcription of the original statements, in the regional Zulu dialect. Illustrated with photographs and with many drawings done by a young native man, Gerard Bhengu. 98 pp.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the practice of traditional Maya medicine which examines "the work of curers in Piste, Mexico, a small town in the Yucatn Peninsula near the ruins of Chichen Itza. The traditions of plant use and ethnomedicine applied by these healers have been transmitted from one generation to the next since the colonial period throughout the state of Yucatan and the adjoining states of Campeche and Quintana Roo. . . The author collected plants with traditional healers and observed their techniques including prayer and massage as well as plant medicine, western medicine, and ritual practices." Illustrated with drawings of plants. Includes a map, several tables, a plant catalogue, glossary and index. vii, 152 pp. ISBN: 0-826328644.

Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1924. First edition - One of a series of leaflets designed to give brief non-technical accounts of the beliefs, habits and customs of various races. This includes information on pipes, tobacco, opium, Tibetan snuff-bottles, tobacco-chewing in Asia, water-pipe in China, India & Persia, Philippines & Formosan tobacco-pipes, the distribution of cigar and cigarette in Asia, etc. Illustrated with 10 plates in photogravure. Bibliography. 39 pp..