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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Joh. Comelinus, a very worthy, ingenious Person, a Magistrate of Amsterdam; who, with very great civility and freeness, treated me with Specimens for my Hortus Siccus, of rare Plants growing in the Physic- Garden at Amsterdam. His Annotations on the 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6th Parts of Hortus Malabaricus.

Valerius Cordus wrote Historiam Stirpium, 561. Icons 272. Folio.

Jacobus Cornutus wrote Historia Plantarum Canadensium, &c. 1635.

Quarto.

Jacobus Delechampius, he began Historia Lugdunensis.

Dioscorides Anazarheus, a Grecian, who treated on Physic and Plants, a little before Christ. Eight of his Books were published, 1549. Octavo, &c.

Dodart, his Description de quelques Plantes Nouvelles. A Paris, 1676.

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