[Science, Medicine, & Mathematics] [Culpeper, Nicholas] Sibly, E(benezer). Culpeper's English
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London: Printed for the Author, and Sold at the British Directory Office...and by Champante and Whitrow, (ca. 1790s). Two volumes bound as one. 4to. xvi, 396; (ii), 256, 397-398 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Culpeper and 29 hand-colored botanical engravings in first volume; engraved frontispiece printed in red and 12 engraved anatomical plates printed in red in second volume. Full contemporary tan calf, rebacked, stamped in gilt, boards and extremities rubbed; all edges trimmed; small oval botanical illustration by J. Orme, 1794, laid in; scattered light to moderate foxing to text; offsetting from plates onto text. ESTC N69195
First printed in 1652, Culpeper's Herbal proved to be incredibly popular and influential and was often reprinted. A very good copy with handsome hand-colored engravings.
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