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Genre/Form: | Atlases Atlas Herbal atlases Early works Pre-Linnean works Early works to 1800 Ouvrages prélinnéens Ouvrages avant 1800 |
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Additional Physical Format: | Also issued on microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1972. 2 microfilm reels : negative ; 35 mm. Online version: Gerard, John, 1545-1612. Herball or Generall historie of plantes. London : Printed by Adam Islip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, anno 1633 (OCoLC)962018075 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Gerard; Robert Davyes; Thomas Johnson; John Payne; Adam Islip; Joyce Norton; Richard Whitaker; Rembert Dodoens; Robert Priest; Thordarson Collection. |
OCLC Number: | 14294872 |
Notes: | Signatures: ¶ ⁸, ¶¶ - ¶¶¶ ⁶, A-B⁸, C-Z⁶, Aa-Zz⁶, Aaa-Zzz⁶, Aaaa-Zzzz⁶, Aaaaa-Zzzzz⁶, Aaaaaa-Vuuuuu⁶, Xxxxxx⁴, Yyyyyyy-Zzzzzz⁶, Aaaaaaa--Bbbbbbb⁶. The first and last leaves are blanks. Engraved title page signed "Io: Payne sculps." Imperfect: first and last leaves (blank) wanting. "A catalogue of the Brittish [i.e. Welsh] names of plants, sent me by Master Robert Dauyes of Guissaney in Flint-Shire": pages [31-32] at end. Includes indexes. Virtually a translation of Rembert Dodoens' Stirpium historiae pemptades sex (originally published in 1583) made by a member of the London College of Physicians, Robert Priest, who died before it was printed. The manuscript came into the hands of Gerard, who issued the work as his own. Cf. Hunt 175. |
Description: | 40 unnumbered pages, 1630 pages, 48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 35 cm |
Other Titles: | Herball Generall historie of plantes |
Responsibility: | Gathered by John Gerarde of London, Master in Chirurgerie ; Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London |
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