lister: herbals and ancient books on botany. 291 
Panckow’s Herbal. 
<( Thomae Pancovii, D. Serenissimi et potentissimi Elector 
Brandenburg Aulae Medici. Herbarium Portatile, oder 
Krauter- und Bewachs-Buch . . . verbessert Durch 
Bartholomaeum Zornn, Philos. & Medic. D. & Practicum. Leip¬ 
zig. Bei Christian Kirchnem zu finden. 1679. 
Small 4to. 
The hrst edition of this book was published in Berlin, 1654. 
The present edition contains 1,536 figures, four arranged on 
each page, depicting fungi, seaweeds, mosses, lichens, flowering- 
plants, seeds and spices : the second part consists of descrip¬ 
tions of the plants illustrated, taken in the alphabetical order 
•of their Latin names. 
[Lent by Miss Willmoit ] 
“ A Book of Simples.” 
8vo. 
Published by Sampson Low & Co., London, 1908. Edited 
by H. W. Lewer, F.S.A., who states in the introduction :— 
” The original of this little book was found in the library of a 
distinguished Essex antiquary ; the document has unfortunately 
no histoiy, but from its appearance and comprehensive character 
it must have been the still-room book of some manor house. 
The manuscript is a folio, composed entirely of vellum. . . the 
book has been submitted to experts, who are of opinion that 
it covers a period of some fifty years, terminating about the 
middle of the eighteenth century.” 
We have here a compilation of many interesting old recipes 
dor table delicacies, as well as for household medicines. 
[Lent by Mr. Percy Thompson ] 
