The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe Duche & Frenche wyth the commune names that herbaries and apotecaries vse

Title Variants

Alternative: Turner's Names of Herbes 1548

Uniform: Libellus de re herbaria novus

By

Turner, William, 1568

Mierdman, Steven, active 1551- , printer
Seres, William, approximately 1579 , printer
Day, John, 1522-1584 , printer

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

[Imprinted at London, By [S. Mierdman for] John Day and Wyllyam Seres, dwellynge in Sepulchres Parish at the signe of the Resurrection a litle aboue Holbourne Conduite, [1548]]

Notes

Imprint from colophon; printer's name and publication date from STC; the dedication is dated: Anno Dom. M.CCCCxlviij. Martii.xv.

"A much-expanded English translation of Turner's Libellus [de re herbaria novus ... They] mark the beginning of scientific botany in England. They contain the first records of the occurrence of some 238 species of flowering plants, a few of them precisely localized ..."--Garrison-Morton.

Title within woodcut border. Cf. McKerrow & Ferguson 64.

Woodcut initials.

Signatures: A-H⁸ (H8 blank).

Final leaf blank. Cf. ESTC.

This edition not in Hunt.

ESTC | S104970

STC (2nd ed.) | 24359

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.) | 1801.2

Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit., | I, no. 365

Subjects

Botany, Medical , Dictionaries , Dictionary , Dictionnaires , Medicinal plants , Plants, Medicinal , United Kingdom

Language

English

Identifiers

NLM: WZ 240 T954LE 1548
OCLC: 700375245