Culpeper's British Herbal; and Complete English Physician
1800.
Item #14441
CULPEPER, NICHOLAS. Culpeper's British Herbal; and Complete English Physician. London: For H. Hogg, [undated but early 1800s]. 1 vol. in 2. vi, [1], x-xii, [1], 10-728, 96, [4] p. Frontis. of Culpeper and his home, 194 botanical plates, and 4 anatomical plates, all handcolored. Contemporary black calf, very neatly rebacked at an early date in black morocco, original spine labels retained. Endsheets foxed, a few random plates and the anatomical plates at the end lightly foxed, otherwise all plates and text clean and fresh. An enlarged early nineteenth-century edition, edited by Geo. Alex. Gordon, of Culpeper's classic herbal, with colored plates depicting some 400 herbs and plants.
Price: $1,400.00