Berlin: in der Schuppel'schen Buchhandlung, 1831. Hardcover first edition - in der funften Ausgabe der preufsischen Pharmakopoe aufgefuhrten, und vieler andern mit ihnen verwandten Pflanzen. Nebst einer fasslichen Darstellung der offizinellen Pflanzenfamilien nach Jussieu's naturlichem System. Register. Errata. 84 pp mit 2 kupfertafeln. 19 cm x 23 cm. / Pharmaceutical botany in tabular form: a concise guide to the knowledge of all the plants listed in the fifth edition of the Prussian Pharmacopoeia and many other plants related to them. In addition to a clear representation of the official plant families according to Jussieu's natural system. Index, errata 84 pp plus 2 engraved plates of botantical drawings.Text in Geman.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1995). A story of the Mayan peoples struggle across Guatemala to recover from decades of religious conversions, civil war, displacement, and military repression and of the Catholic lay activists who seek to renovate a new pan-Q'eqchi' ethnic identity. Includes chapters on fertilizing the land, and on curing illness. Maps and black and white photographs. Notes, glossary, references cited, index. xxii, 373 pp. ISBN: 0-8061-31950.

Cambridge, MA: Botanical Musuem of Harvard University, 1977. First edition - Contains two articles by Richard Schultes, who was one of the worldÕs leading authorities on hallucinogenic and medicinal plants, a botanical explorer, a pioneering conservationist, and a teacher and mentor, as well as being credited as the modern founder of the science of ethnobotany who documented the use of over 2000 medicinal plants, mainly from the Colombian Amazon. The first on Hevea is illustrated with 2 plates of botanical drawings and 2 maps. The second article by Schultes, Tony Swain and Timothy C. Plowman is on the changing usage of Virola as a hallucinogenic and is illustrated with 1 map and 5 plates of photographs. . pp 243-272.

Cambridge, MA: Botanical Musuem of Harvard University, 1957. Contains two articles by Richard Schultes, who was one of the worldÕs leading authorities on hallucinogenic and medicinal plants, a botanical explorer, a pioneering conservationist, and a teacher and mentor, as well as being credited as the modern founder of the science of ethnobotany who documented the use of over 2000 medicinal plants, mainly from the Colombian Amazon. Illustrated with 1 drawing and 1 map. pp241-264.

Cambridge, MA: Botanical Musuem of Harvard University, 1942. Contains a long and interesting articles by Richard Schultes, who was one of the worldÕs leading authorities on hallucinogenic and medicinal plants, a botanical explorer, a pioneering conservationist, and a teacher and mentor, as well as being credited as the modern founder of the science of ethnobotany who documented the use of over 2000 medicinal plants, mainly from the Colombian Amazon. Illustrated with 1 plate of a botanical drawing, 2 plates of photographs and one map. pp 301-324.

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.

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.

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

Berkeley, CA: Shambala Publications, 1970. Hardcover first edition - A retelling of an Indian legend from Guatemala about a boy who is given a magic drink by a medicine man which sends him on an incredible trip deep inside himself. Illustrated with gorgeous full-color, full-page paintings by his wife and co-researcher into mescaline, Nan Cuz, who was born in Guatemala of Mayan and German descent. Foreword by Miguel Angel Asturias. Translated from the German by Dinah Livingstone. Large format. 40 pp. ISBN: 0-877730164.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1992). First edition - A provocative and very unusual anthropology work - Edith Turner was the wife of the noted anthropologist Victor Turner and for several years in the 1950s, she was at his side when he conducted fieldwork among the Ndembu. But when she returned in 1985 and sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu, her perspective changed to the view of millions of Africans - that ritual is the harnessing of spiritual power. Illustrated with photographs. A title in the Series of Contemporary Ethnography. Several appendices, references, index. xii, 239 pp. ISBN: 0-812213661.

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.

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..

Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. First edition - One of a series of leaflets designed to give brief non-technical accounts of the beliefs, habits and customs of various races. Illustrated with 6 plates in photogravure. Bibliography. 45 pp plus final plate.

Lovedale, South Africa: Published in the Book Department, 1888. Hardcover - Uncommon second edition of this early work on South African indigenous medicine, which was first published in 1885. The preface notes that although there is still work to be done, the first edition has been sold out, and so a new edition was appropriate, Among the Native contributors who are acknowledged in the preface is W. W. Gqoba and the students of Lovedale. Includes indices of the botanical, Kaffir, English and Dutch names of the plants. viii, 163 pp. plus errata.

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.

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: 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.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887. Hardcover first edition - A book which attempts to rectify the idea that most of Africa is nothing but "bush." Includes several appendices, index to the economic plants and a general index. vi, 533 pp plus a 32 pp publisher's catalogue.

Capetown and London: Oxford University Press of behalf of The Institute for African Studies, Zambia, 1953. First edition - A paper written as a study-in-the-field, which focuses on the place of 'bona' in post-mortem rituals. Illustrated with photographs. Footnotes. 40 pp.

Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press of behalf of The Institute for African Studies, Zambia, (1961). First edition - A preliminary analysis of the raw data, rather than a finished work - one which focuses on the symbolic objects, especially as they are used by two diviners - Muchona and an Angolan diviner. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. 85 pp plus bibliography and list of other publications.

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1951. First edition - Presented by the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations to Parliament in April, 1951, this is a report on "(1) the nature and significance of the large numbers of murders which had taken place in 1947 and 1948 in Basutoland, (2) the proximate causes of and underlying reasons for the apparently increased incidence of the crime, and (3) the steps which the Basutoland Administration might take to remedy the position. Includes a look at the role of native medicine men and the use of 'diretlo' in the making of magical medicines with protective value. Appendices, Diagrams (including two fold-out diagrams) and a fold out map. vi, 104 pp.

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.

Edinburgh: E & S Livingstone, 1962. dj. Hardcover - The second - and best - edition of this authoritative and comprehensive work. In fact, it is so signficantly changed from the original 1932 edition, that is more like a new work. The title was changed to include Eastern Africa to reflect the expanded area it covers, and the book has over 1000 additional pages. Illustrated with botanical color paintings, black and white drawings and photographs, some in color. Bibliography, European names, vernacular names, active principles, index and more. pp. xii 1457.

New York: Chelsea House Publishers, (1992). Hardcover - Writen for teenagers, this discusses the origins and effects of LSD and the LSD experience, including flashbacks and toxic effects, and discusses hallucinogens, therapy options, and the effects of drugs on animals. While it is described on the back cover as an objective study, in reality the emphasis is on the dangers posed by LSD (a photograph of the Manson family with the caption that "after using LSD, they embarked on a killing spree" and another photograph of Thelonius Monk with the commentary that a person's creativity can be damaged or destroyed if they take LSD. Illustrated with photographs. Includes several appendices, glossary, suggestions for further reading, index. 103 pp. ISBN: 0-877547521.

Madison, WI: American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1987. First edition - Edited and with an introduction by John Scarborough (who also contributes an essay on the recognition of drugs in classical antiquity) Includes seven essays by David L. Cowen, John M. Riddle, Eric H. Christianson, and others on medieval herbalism, folk medicine in Indiana, and of the Pennsylvania Dutch and more. Notes at the end of each essay. Publication Number 10. 122 pp.