Title: 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 Physician Enlarged, and Key to Physic, with Rules for Compounding Medicine...Forming a Complete Family Dispensatory and Natural System of Physic...To Which is Also Added, Upwards of Fifty Choice Receipts... Author: Culpeper, Nicholas Place: London Publisher: Thomas Kelley Date: 1823 Description: vi, 398, [4] index pp. Engraved frontispiece, 40 hand-colored engraved botanical plates, each with 12 plant vignettes. 26.6x21 cm. (10½x8¼"), period calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Numerous editions of herbals using Culpeper's name were published from the latter half of the 17th Century to the early 19th Century. The engraved frontispiece plate consists of a portrait of the author. Lot Amendments Condition: Leather scuffed; some fairly minor soiling within, very good. Item number: 224425
Title: 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 Physician Enlarged, and Key to Physic, with Rules for Compounding Medicine...Forming a Complete Family Dispensatory and Natural System of Physic...To Which is Also Added, Upwards of Fifty Choice Receipts... Author: Culpeper, Nicholas Place: London Publisher: Thomas Kelley Date: 1823 Description: vi, 398, [4] index pp. Engraved frontispiece, 40 hand-colored engraved botanical plates, each with 12 plant vignettes. 26.6x21 cm. (10½x8¼"), period calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Numerous editions of herbals using Culpeper's name were published from the latter half of the 17th Century to the early 19th Century. The engraved frontispiece plate consists of a portrait of the author. Lot Amendments Condition: Leather scuffed; some fairly minor soiling within, very good. Item number: 224425
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