Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Paradisi in sole paradisvs terrestris : Or, A choise garden of all sorts of rarest flowers, with their nature, place of birth, time of flowring, names, and vertues to each plant, useful in physick, or admired for beauty. To which is annext a kitchin-garden furnished with all manner of herbs, roots, and fruits, for meat or sawce used with us. With the art of planting an orchard of all sorts of fruit-bearing trees and shrubs, shewing the nature of grafting, inoculating, and pruning of them. Together with the right ordering, planting and preserving of them, with their select vertues: all unmentioned in former herbals / Collected by John Parkinson ...

Accession number
PML 55831
Creator
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650.
Published
London : Printed by R. N. and are to be sold by R. Thrale, 1656.
Credit line
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1965.
Notes
Illustrations slightly colored.
Added t.-p., engraved.
Reproduces the illus. t.p. of the first ed., 1629, with the date changed to 1656.
Description
6 p. l., 612, [16] p. : illus. ; 34 cm.
Provenance
On covers: impressed in gold, the coat of arms of the Breadalbane family, probably John Campbell, 2d earl of Breadalbane, second son of the first earl to whom he succeeded in 1715. From Mrs. Morgan's collection.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt.
Classification
Department