B 0 T A N I CU M ME DICINALE 
A N 
H E 
K 
O F 
MEDICINAL PLANTS 
ON THE 
COLLEGE of PHYSICIANS LIST. 
Places of Growth, 
Roots, Bark, 
Leaves, Buds, 
Time of Flowering, 
DESCRIBING THEIR 
Blossoms, Flowers, 
Stiles, Chives, 
Embrio’s, Fruits, 
Farina, Colours, 
Seeds, Kernels, 
Seed-Vessels, 
Parts ufed in Medicine, 
Preparations in the Shops, 
MEDICINAL VIRTUES, 
NAMES in NINE Languages. 
Moft beautifully Engraved on 1 1 8 Large Folio COPPER-PLATES, 
From the exquifite D R A V/ I N G S of the late Ingenious 
r. SHELDRAKE. 
ENGLISH PLANTS are drawn from NATURE to the greateft Accuracy, 
Flowers, or Parts, too fmall to be diftinguifhed, are magnified. 
Nothing in any Language exceeds this Thirty Years laborious WORK, of which it may truly 
be laid that Nature only equals it, every Thing of the Kind, hitherto attempted, being 
trivial, compared to this inimitable Performance. 
Defigned to promote Botanical Knowledge, prevent Miftakes in the Ufe of Simples in compounding and 
preparing Medicines, to illuftrate, and render fuch Herhals as want the juft Reprefentations in their proper Fi- 
gures and Colours more uleful. Neceflary to fuch as pra&ile Phyfic, Pharmacy, Cbemiftry, &c. entertaining 
to the Curious, the Divine and Philofopher, in contemplating thefe wonderiu! Productions, Uleful to 
Painters, Heralds, Carvers, Defigners, Gardeners, &c. 
The Colours of every Part are minutely delcribed ; for Utility it muft be efteemed preferable to any 
H O RT U S SICCUS extant. The Means to preferve Fruits, and dry Flowers, in their Native Form and 
Colour, are not yet dilcovered ; Plants cannot be preferved to Perfection. The Flowers when coloured, are 
reprefented in their original Bloom, and Fruits in the inviting Charms of Maturity. 
To which now is added , 
His TABLES for finding the Heat and Cold in all Climates, 
That Exotic PLANTS may be raifed in Summer, and preferved in Winter. 
L 0 N D O N: 
Printed for j. Mill a n, oppofite the Admiralty, Whitehall 
Price coloured, J Royal 6 o o] p] . 
Unbound ^ Small 4 o ain 
Where may he had , 
1 The Caufes of Heat and Cold in all Climates, 1 s. 
2 Norwich Gothic Crofs, 1 s. Both by T. Sheldrake. 
JUST PUBLISHED, Jacobi Petiveri Opera Hiftoriam Naturalem Spedtantia, containing feveral ThoufunJ Figures 
ot Birds, Beafts, Fillies, Reptiles, Infeds, Shells, Corals, and Foflils ; alfo of Trees, Shrubs, Herbs, Fruits, Fungufies, 
Mofles, Sea-Weeds from all Parts, on above 300 Copper-plates, with Englifli and Latin Names. The Shells have EnAifh, 
Latin, and Native Names, to which are added ioo Plates, and 17 curious Traits never before pubhfhed, in Folio, 6 ?. 6 s. 
•id, Catefby’s Hortus Americanus, containing 85 curious Trees, Shrubs, d?r. wich their Bloflbms, Fuuts, and Seeds, on 17 
large Copper-plates, coloured after Nature, with Obiervations on their Growth, Culture, Ufes, and Virtues, adapted to the 
Climates of Great Britain and Ireland, and moft Parts of Europe * likewife Directions to collect, pack up, and fecure them 
in their Paflage to Europe. 2 t. 2 s. 
/, Dellenius’s General Hiftory of Land and Water Mofles, Corals, UV. colleded, drawn, and eng'aved by the Author 
1 /. 5 s. 
300 
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