Culpeper's English Family Physician; Or Medical Herbal Enlarged, With Several Hundred Additional Plants, Principally from Sir John Hill, Medicinally and Astrologically Arranged, after the Manner of Culpeper, And, a New Dispensatory, from the Manuscript of the Late Dr. Saunders ...by Hishua Hamilton.
by Culpeper, Nicholas
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Westmoreland, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed for W. Locke. 1792. Hardcover. One board detached, other three holding by cords, spines are incomplete, internally clean and sound and suitable for rebacking or rebinding to match plate volumes. ; 8vo; Two volumes of text and one volume of plates, while an octavo in size the signatures are as quartos, 456, 429, [330]-378, lacks portrait, astrological figures, indexes. The plate volume has been nicely bound in modern half black morocco with marbled boards, pages are uncut, the 193 botanical plates (only) have been numbered in upper RH corner. **Blanche Henrey #104; this being an uncolored copy printed on wove paper. .
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- Bookseller
- Janet & Henry Hurley (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48974
- Title
- Culpeper's English Family Physician; Or Medical Herbal Enlarged, With Several Hundred Additional Plants, Principally from Sir John Hill, Medicinally and Astrologically Arranged, after the Manner of Culpeper, And, a New Dispensatory, from the Manuscript of the Late Dr. Saunders ...by Hishua Hamilton.
- Author
- Culpeper, Nicholas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Printed for W. Locke
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1792
- Keywords
- Herbal, Medical, Antiquarian, Astrology, Occult
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medical;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Janet & Henry Hurley
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About the Seller
Janet & Henry Hurley
Biblio member since 2006
Westmoreland, New Hampshire
About Janet & Henry Hurley
Hurley Books was established by my father, Henry Hurley, in 1966. We have been shipping books through the mail for over 40 years with over 200 catalogs having been issued. Our bookshop contains well over 50,000 volumes with 17,000 +/- currently listed on Biblio.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Marbled boards
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...