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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8 plates in this part of Newton's Compleat Herbal.

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L'ABRIDGE de bon fruits; or, The Abridgment of good fruits, &c. published by C. Cercy, at Paris, 1675, in Octavo. In this work a greater…

Country the Authors Were Of: Folio

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

Country the Authors Were Of: Plantarum

Casparus Bauhinus, a very famous Physician of Basil, who wrote Pinacem Theatri Botanici, one of the most elaborate and useful Works of…

Country the Authors Were Of: Jacobus

Jacob Jacob Bontius, a Physician of Padua, wrote Historia Naturalis & Medicæ Indiæ Orientalis, 1629. Icons 70. Folio.

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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…

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Rembertus Dodoneus wrote Stirpium Historiam, Pemptades, 1583. Icons 1305. Folio. This was translated into English by Dr. Priest, of London…

Country the Authors Were Of: History

Joh. Baptista Ferrarius Hesperides: or, History of Citrons, Limons and Oranges. Icons 80. Folio, and Florum, seu de Florum cultura, 1646…

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…

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