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CULPEPER, Nicholas

"The complete herbal; to which is now added upwards of one hundred additional herbs with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind; to which are now first annexed the english phys
London
Thomas Kelly
1850
€300 - €400

In-4°, vi + 398 + [4] (index) p. Frontispiece (lithographic portrait of Nicholas Culpeper and het Red Lion House in Spitalfields) + 20 plates with engravings of 180 British herbs and plants, contemporary hand coloured from nature. Waterstain on frontispiece. Brown cloth boards with gilt print on spine

Last edition and perhaps most complete. ""His 'Herbal', first printed in 1652, which continued for more than a century, to be the manual of good ladies in the country, is well known; and, to do the author justice, his descriptions of common plants were drawn up with a clearness and distinction that would not have disgraced a better pen."" (Hunt 711) Wellcome 416

Botany