Culpeper, Nicholas 



Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal. To which are 

 now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs with a 

 display of their medicinal and occult properties. . . to which are 

 annexed ruics for compounding medicine according to the new sys- 

 tem of nature: Forming a complete family dispensatory and natural 

 system of physic. Beautified and enriched with engravings of . . . 

 plants and. . . anatomical figures. . . by E. Sibley. 

 London, Year of masonry, 5793 (1790) Printed for the author, 2 

 vols, in 1 pi. 27 cm. lea. 



Good anatomical and herbal illustrations. 



Flint, Martha Bockee 



A garden of simples. 



New York 1900. Scribners, 307 p. 20 cm. bds. 



Arranged in the old style of printing-, arrangement, and bind- 

 ing, and crowded with quotations from and allusions to the old- 

 time writers on herbs and gardening in general. A fascinating 

 hodge-podge of entertaining material, very cleverly put together. 



Crerarde, John 



The Herbail; or, Generall Historie of plantes. Gathered by John 

 Gerarde of London, Master in Chirurgerie. Very much enlarged and 

 Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London. 

 London, 1633. Printed by Adam Islip, Joice, Norton, and Eichard 

 Whitakers, 1630 p. Engr. front, illus. 37 cm. calf (orig?) 

 Large paper. Very fine engraved pictorial title-page, and other en- 

 gravings. Alphabetical tables in Latin and in English, the latter 

 in blackletter. The table of Vertues is interesting. Has name and 

 address of Ant. Thompson with date 1636 on front fly-leaf, and 

 the book-plate of Trinity College, Cambridge, appears on the verso 

 of the leaf following the title page. 



This book is very valuable, and stood equally with I'arkinson's 

 Theatrum Botanicum as the authoritative reference book on 

 botany until the time of Ray. 



Good, Peter P. 



The family flora and materia medica botanica; containing the botan- 

 ical analysis, natural history, and chemical and medical properties 

 and uses of plants. . .illustrated by colored engravings. 2 vols, 

 rev. ed. 



Cambridge (Mass.) cl854. Peter P. Good, Jr. 2 vois. col. pi. 24 cm. el. 

 Not usable as a first-aid medical work as there is no index. The 

 properties of each herb follow its description, but there is no sys- 

 tematic arrangement. The herbs described in vol. 2 are arranged 

 or listed in a table according to seasons, i. e., spring, summer, etc. 

 A chart explaining and illustrating the Linnaean System is given 

 , in vol. 2. Profusely illustrated. 



Green, Thomas 



The universal herbal; or, botanical, medical, and agricultural dic- 

 tionary. Containing an account of all the known plants in the 

 world, arranged according to the Linnaean system. Specifying the 

 uses to which they are or may be applied, whether as food, as medi- 

 cine, or in the arts and manufactures. With the best methods of 

 propagation and the most recent agricultural improvements, ed. 2 rev. 

 London, pref. 1824. Caxton press, 2 vols., col. pi. 28 cm. lea., gilt 

 back and decorations. 

 Very fine hand-colored plates, front., and extra title-pages. 



Hunter, John D. 



. . .Some account of the soil climate, and vegetable productions, 

 and the Indian materia medica in his Hunter's Narrative of the man- 



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