Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 20)

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The 'Zhiwu Mingshi Tukao' (1848) is a monumental 38-volume botanical encyclopedia from the Qing Dynasty. While it is a foundational text frequently cited and excerpted in scholarly works on Chinese botany (such as Joseph Needham's 'Science and Civilisation in China' and various agricultural bibliographies found in search results), no complete or standalone English translation of the work exists. Search results only returned citations and references within broader historical and botanical studies.

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