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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Rembertus Dodoneus wrote Stirpium Historiam, Pemptades, 1583. Icons 1305. Folio. This was translated into English by Dr. Priest, of London; which was the Foundation of Gerard's Herbal.

Castor Durantes wrote Herbarium Novum, of the Plants growing in Europe, and both the Indies, -1585.

Icons 879. Folio.

Germ. Ephemerides Medico-Physicæ Germanicæ, sive Miscellania curiosa Medico-Physica S. R. Imp. Academiæ curiosorum. Per Germanum.

John Evelyn, Esq. a very worthy person, and Member of the Royal ( Society of London, his Sylva and Pomona, 1679. Folio.

Joh. Eusebii Nierembergii Historia Naturæ, Antwerp, 1635. Folio.

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