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Genre/Form: | Atlases Atlas Herbal atlases Early works Engravings Woodcuts Recasing (Binding) Leather bindings (Binding) Gold blocked bindings (Binding) Raised bands (Binding) Headbands (Binding) Herbals Chainlines (Paper) Catchwords (Printing) Annotations (Provenance) Underscoring (Provenance) Pre-Linnean works Early works to 1800 Ouvrages prélinnéens Ouvrages avant 1800 verk före 1800 |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gerard, John, 1545-1612. Herball, or. Imprinted at London : By Iohn Norton, 1597 (OCoLC)1084032963 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Gerard; John Norton; Bonham Norton; Edmund Bollifant; W Pratt; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress); Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress); Thordarson Collection. |
OCLC Number: | 14166389 |
Notes: | Engraved t.p. Colophon: "Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, M.D. XCVII." Signatures: A⁴ B⁶ ²A-²B⁸ C-3V⁸ 3X¹⁰ 4A-4T⁸ 4V⁶ 5A-5I⁴. Coat of arms of Lord Burghley on title page verso; full page portrait of author facing p. 1, dated 1598. Includes indexes. LC copy misbound: p. 621-622 (erroneously signed 2Q2) bound in place of 611-612; 611-612 bound between 620 and 623. Bound by W. Pratt. Dealer's description, laid in. |
Description: | [20], 1392, [72] p. : ill. (woodcuts), port. (engraving), coat-of-arms (woodcut) ; 33 cm. (fol.) |
Contents: | Epistle dedicatorie [to Sir William Cecil, baron Burghley] -- [Commendatory verse and prose, mainly in Latin] -- To the courteous and well-willing Readers -- First booke of the historie of plants, containing grasses, rushes, corne, flags, bulbose, or onion-rooted plants -- Second booke ... containing the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of all sorts of herbs for meate, medicine, or sweete smelling vse, etc. -- Third booke ... containing trees, shrubs, bushes, fruit-bearing plants, rosins, gums, roses, heath, mosses: some Indian plants, and other rare plants ... also mushrooms, corall, and their seuerall kindes, etc. -- Index Latinus ... stirpium -- Index nominum herbarum, quibus pharmacopolarum officinae, Barbari & Arabes vtuntur -- Nominum et opinionum harmonia et consensus -- Table of the English names -- Supplement or appendix vnto the generall table, and to the tables of English names: gathered -- Table, wherein is contained the nature, vertue, and danger of all the herbes, trees and plants. |
Other Titles: | Herball Generall historie of plantes |
Responsibility: | gathered by John Gerarde ... |
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