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, physically appplied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind. To which are annexed, rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature: forming a complete family dispensatory, and natural system of physic ... Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory. By E. Sibly.

Accession number

PML 53040

Creator

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.

Published

London, Printed for the author, and sold at the British Directory Office ... and by Champante and Whitrow [1798?]

Credit line

Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1962.

Notes

Frontispiece: portrait of the author engraved by J. Pass.
29 engraved plates hand colored.
The first ed. was published in 1653.
Partly printed on blue paper.
References: Pritzel no. 1988 does not include this ed.

Description

xvi, 398 p. illus. (8vo)

Provenance

Mrs. Morgan's collection.

Binding

1/2 brown morocco.

Classification

Book

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