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.

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Aetius Amideus, a Grecian, who wrote of Medicines, 1535. Folio.

Paul. Ægineta, of the Isle Ægina, wrote of Medicines before Dioscorides, published 1528. Folio. Ulysses Aldrovandus, a Bononian, wrote much of Medicines, and natural things. His Dendrologia Naturalis was published 1648. Folio. Prosper Alpinus, a Physician of Padua, wrote De Plantis Ægyptiæ, 1592. Icons 46. Quarto.

Character Plantarum Naturalis, by Paul. Amman, 1684, and Hortus Bosianus, 1687.

Aloysius Angularia, a Physician, President of the public Garden of Padua, his Opinion of some Plants; printed 1561. Octavo.

Apuleius, an ancient Platonist, who wrote on the Virtues of Herbs; printed at Paris, 1528. Folio.

Avicenna, an Arabian Ph. whose Works were reduced into an Index by Castæus, 1564. Folio.

Hermolaus Barbarus, an Italian, who wrote Corollaries on Dioscorides, 1530. Folio.

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