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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Casparus Bauhinus, a very famous Physician of Basil, who wrote Pinacem Theatri Botanici, one of the most elaborate and useful Works of Herbarism, 40 years in compiling; wherein he gives the several Synonyma's to each Plant, and names about 6000 as distinct, 1627. 4to.

Casp. Bauhinus his Phytopinax. 1596. Quarto.

C. Bauh. Prodromus Theatri Botanici, 1620. Icons 140. Quarto. Petrus Bellonius wrote De Arboribus Coniferis, &c. 1553. Quarto. Honorius Bellus, a Physician of Creet, who by Letters had great correspondence with Cl. about Plants. Paul. Breconius, Herbarist to the great Duke of Tuscany; he wrote Rariorum Plantarum Siciliæ, Melitæ, Galliæ & Italiæ, 1674. Icons/110. 4to.

Johannes Bodæus, a Physician of Amsterdam, who commented on Theophrastus, and wrote of some rare Plants. 1644. Folio.

Ars. Boœtius, he published a treatise of Flowers and Herbs, with Icons, at Bruges. 4to.

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