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: No date [c.1835] Description: vi, 398, [iv] index pp. Engraved frontispiece, 20 hand-colored botanical plates, each with 9 vignettes. 27.4x21.3 cm. (10¾x8½"), re-backed half calf and boards, much of original spine laid down. A New Edition. 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, framed by a zodiac table, and beneath that a vignette of Red Lion House, Spitalfields, the home in which the author lived, studied and died. Lot Amendments Condition: Moderately rubbed extremities and boards; lightly foxed and/or finger-soiled pages within, mostly marginal; one botanical plate with the name of the flower written in ink beneath its image; else very good. Item number: 218330
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: No date [c.1835] Description: vi, 398, [iv] index pp. Engraved frontispiece, 20 hand-colored botanical plates, each with 9 vignettes. 27.4x21.3 cm. (10¾x8½"), re-backed half calf and boards, much of original spine laid down. A New Edition. 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, framed by a zodiac table, and beneath that a vignette of Red Lion House, Spitalfields, the home in which the author lived, studied and died. Lot Amendments Condition: Moderately rubbed extremities and boards; lightly foxed and/or finger-soiled pages within, mostly marginal; one botanical plate with the name of the flower written in ink beneath its image; else very good. Item number: 218330
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