A Compleat Herbal

James Newton's folio herbal shows the plants themselves: copperplate engravings of everything an eighteenth-century physician or gardener might need to recognise, from asphodels and adder's tongue to the mandrake and the mulberry.

HomeCountry the Authors Were Of › Country the Authors Were Of: Botanicum

Country the Authors Were Of: Botanicum

Montanus., Robert Morison, Physician, late Botanic Professor to Charles II. King of Great Britain; he wrote De Plantis Umbelliferis, printed at Oxon, 1672, and five Sections Plantarum Historiæ universalis Oxoniensis, 1680. Icons 1394. Folio, which was carried on by Jacob Bobert, 1685. Botanic Professor of Oxon, and Master of the Physic-Garden there. 1687.

R. Morison's Præludium Botani cum, seu Hortus Regius Blasensis 1669. Octavo. In these Works he reduced many Plants into a far better method than any before him.

Musæum Regalis Societatis Londinensis.

Abraham Munting, M. D. and Botanic Professor of Groning, wrote Ware affiningder Planten, 1672. Icons 54. Quarto; and De vera Antiquorum Herba Britannica, & Aloidarum Hist. 1681. Icons 34. Quarto.

Nieremberg. Hist. Exot.

Novelles Instructions pour connoistre les bon fruits; or, New Instructions whereby to know good Fruits, according to the Months; originally written by Father Feuillent, and published by C. Cercy, at Paris, 1670. Octavo.

Ludovicus Oviedus, a Spanish Ph. wrote Medicamentorum Simplicium, 1595. Also another, Consalvus Ferdinandus Oviedus, wrote Indiæ Oc. Hist. Generalem; published by Duretus.

Bernardus Paludanus.

Tho. Pancovius, a German Physician, wrote Herbarium Portatile, with many Icons, 1664. 4to.

John Perkinson, Apothecary and Herbarist to Charles I. King of Great Britain, his Theatrum Botanicum, 1640. Icons 2786. Folio.

John Perkinson, his Paradisus Terrestris; or, Garden of pleasant Flowers, 1629. Ic. 813. Fol.

Simon Paulus, a Danish Physician, wrote Quadripartitum Botan. 1667.

Quarto.

Phytologia Britannica, by Dr. How, 1650. 8vo.

Guil. Piso, a Physician of Amster dam, wrote Hist. Naturalem Brasilia, &c. 1648. and the Natural History of both Indies, 1658. Ic 224. Folio.

Caius Plinius, an Italian, who wrote the History of the World, and died in the Year of Christ, 70.

Dr. Robert Plot's Natural History of Oxfordshire, 1677. and Staffordshire, 1686. Folio. Joh. Pona, an Apothecary of Verona, wrote Catalogum Plant. in monte Baldo cresentium, annexed to Clus. History of rare Plants.

Pugillus Plant. rariorum, annexed by Menzelius to his Index Nominum Plant. 1682. Ic. 46. Fol.

Leonard Rauwolfius, M. D. a German, who wrote Itinerarium Germanic. 1582. Icons 42. 4to. John John Ray, M. A. Fellow of the Royal Society of London, a learned and very worthy Person, our good Friend, a most accurate Botanist; witness his Catalogus Plant. Angliæ, 1678. Cat. Stirpium in Exteris Regionibus, 1678. Methodus Plant. nova, 1682. all in 8vo. and lastly, his Hist.

Plant.taking in allhitherto extant, with Additions, without Icons, 1688. Fol.

John Rea, his Flora, 1676. Fol.

Nardus Antonius Recchus, Physician to the King of Spain, he digested into a Volume Rerum Medicarum Novæ Hispaniæ Thesaurum, &c. first compiled by Hernandez, 1648, Fol.

Fol. wherein are about 800 plants, and 600 Icons, but many of them very imperfectly, others not at all described.

Paul Renealnus Blæsensis Specimen Hist. Plant. 1611. Icons 43. Quarto.

Guil. ten Rhine, a Dutch Physician, whose rare Plants are subjoined to Breyn. his first Century.

Roberti Icones, which is of the King's Gardens at Paris. Folio.

Joh. Robinus, Herbarist to Henry IV. King of France, he published that King's Garden, Anno 1608. Folio.

Mr. Rochefortius his Natural History of the Antilles, or Caribby- Islands. Folio.

Folio.

John Ruellius wrote of the Nature of Plants, 1537. Folio.

Julius Cæsar Scaliger wrote Commentaries on Theoph. his History of Plants, 1566. Octavo.

John Schroderus, his Chymical Dispensatory, 1669. Folio.

Caspar. Schwenckfeldius wrote Catalog. Stirpium and Fossilium Silesiæ, 1601. Quarto.

Joh. Serapio, an Arabian, in the ninth Century, who wrote a Breviary of Simple Medicines, printed 1497, &c. Folio.

Arnold Seyn, he commented on the first Part of H M.

Rob. Sibaldus, M. D. his Prodromus Hist. Naturalis Scotiæ, 1684. with 16 Icons of Plants, Fol.

Francis. Sterbeeck, his Citra Cultura, & Theatrum Fungorum, 1675. Quarto.

Eman. Swertius, his Florilegia, 1647. with good Icons. Folio.

Jacob.Theodorus Tabernamontanus, he set forth Herbarium German. 1588. and 12 years after, 2087 Icons, wherewith G. his Herbal was printed. Joh. Terrentii, his Notes upon Rec.

John Thalius, a German Physici an, who wrote Sylvam Hercyniam, the Catalogue of the Plants of Hercyne, and the places adjacent, 1584. 4to.

Theophrastus Eresius, a Grecian, Aristotle's Successor, 322 years before Christ, who, among other things, wrote an History of Plants, printed by Bodæus a Stapel, 1644.

Folio.

Andreas Thevetus, a French-man, who wrote of Plants, 1557. Quarto.

Heronymus Tragus wrote Hist. Herbarum German. 1552. Ic. 567. Fol. Observationes de Ortu ac Vegetatione Plant. Job. Baptist. Triumfetti. Dr. Turnefort, M. D. and Botanic Lecturer at the Royal Garden of Paris.

Will. Turner, M. D. London, set forth a little Book with the Greek, Latin, English, Dutch, and French Names, 1548, and 1551, his Herbal, with Fuchsius his Icons.

Georgii Turre Hist. Plant. It treats only of the Faculty and Virtue of Plants, from Diosc. Theoph. and Gal. 1684. Folio.

Antonius Valet, M. D. Physician to the King of France; he wrote Hortus Regius, 1665. Folio.

Job. Veslingius, Anatomic and Botanic Professor of Padua, wrote Catalog. Plant. Hort Medici Patavina, in 12mo.

Marcellus Virgilius, Secretary to the State of Florence; he set forth Dios. in Greek and Latin, with Commentaries.

Sir George Wheeler, his Journey into Greece; where, among many other curious things, he treats of some rare Plants, 1682. Folio.

John Worlidge, Gent. his Treatise of Cyder, &c. Octavo.

Museum Jacobi Wormii. Folio.

Jacob Zanonius, an Apothecary of Bononia, who wrote in the Italian Tongue, Istoria Botanica di Jacomo Zanoni &c. in Bologna, 1675. Ic. 88. Folio.

Barthol, Zornius, a famous Physician of Berlin: who enlarged and corrected Herbarium Portatile Puncovianum, 1678. Quarto. These, especially their Botanic parts, are all brought into this one Manual: together with what is more new of our own, and communicated to us by ingenious and worthy persons, whose respective names shall be subjoined to their Gifts, that Posterity may know to whom they are obliged for the same.

← Country the Authors Were Of: History