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London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard WHitakers, 1636. Leather. Very Good. 13.5" by 9.5". Not Stated. An early edition of John Gerard's important herbal, a sixteenth century guide to the proper care and maintenance of plants, illustrated throughout. The important botanical work of John Gerard, which was first published in 1597. This is the second edition with Johnson's expansions, and the third overall edition. Illustrated profusely throughout.'The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes' was one of the most popular and essential works on gardening in the seventeenth century, a comprehensive resource on the growing and maintaining of plants, with details on their uses in medicine. Though incredibly popular, this was mostly a plagiarised English translation of Rembert Dodoen's 1554 herbal, 'Cruydboeck'. This expansion by Johnson addresses the controversy in the preface. This is the expanded edition by Thomas Johnson; in the thirty-six years since Gerard's first publication had seen such…
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The Herball Or Generall Historie Of Plantes 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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London: Adam Islip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633. Second edition. leather_bound. Modern full blind calf, raised bands, red morocco spine label. Fine.. 1630 (24) pages. 36 X 24 cm. Approximately 2821 wood-cuts. Indices. The title page by John Pyne, and engraver chiefly of portraits and frontispieces. Johnson produced this edition noteworthy for its many corrections, improvements, and additions, and remained popular for many years. "Even during the second half of the eighteenth century it was still used by students of botany.......The popularity of the herbal extended into the nineteenth century and, in 1806, Richard Weston, the agricultural and horticultural writer, referred to this edition as follows, 'At this day the book is held in high esteem, particularly by those who are fond of searching into the medicinal virtues of plants. Its usual price in three guineas, being very scarce." [see: HENREY Vol I, pp.47-53]. HUNT 223. NISSEN 698. License and dedication leaves repaired at head, title page supplied in facsimile, last leaf of table lacking, minor internal toning and spotting, occasional modest marginal dampstains.
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London: Printed by Adam Islip, Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633. Second Edition overall and first Johnson edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Second Edition overall and first Johnson edition. Hardcover. From the Library of Oliver Sacks. "This is the first edition enlarged and edited by Thomas Johnson (1595-1644) who corrected many of Gerard's more gullible errors, and improved the accuracy of the illustrations by using Plantin's woodcuts" (Hunt). "So great had been the progress of botany in the thirty-six years since Gerard's original publication, that Johnson added over eight hundred new species to the list, and seven hundred figures, besides numerous corrections. The work, which contains about 2,850 descriptions, is commonly known by the name 'Gerarde emaculatus,' given to it by Ray. Johnson seems, however, to have completed it in a year" (DNB). ESTC S122165; Hunt 223; Nissen 698; Henrey 155. Includes the famous title page engraved by John Payne featuring Ceres, Pomona, Theophrastus and…
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London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1633. Second Edition. Full calf. Good +. Christophe Plantin. 2°, 34cm.; ¶8 (Missing A1, blank), ¶¶-¶¶¶6, A-B8, C-6V6, 6X4, 6Y6-7B6 (missing final blank), 859 leaves, pp. [38] 2-1630 [50] [leaves 35-36 misnumbered]. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners bumped and worn through. Pages generally clean, title page ever so slightly chipped around edges with light soiling. 2 bookplates on fr. pastedown. This 2nd edition was commissioned by London herbalist Thomas Johnson and enlarged by him, extending and revising Gerard's near translation of Rembert Dodoens 'Pemptades' (1583) with the addition of hundreds of new species and illustrations. Johnson also jettisoned the woodcuts from the 1st edition for ones supplied by Christopher Plantin's press. Includes the famous title page engraved by John Payne featuring Ceres, Pomona, Theophrastus and Dioscorides with John Gerard at bottom.
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London: Adam Islip, 1633. Thick Folio. Second edition and considered the best edition because of Johnson's expansion and extensive corrections. Johnson added over eight hundred new species and seven hundred new illustrations. Engraved title page, [38], 1630[1], [47]pp. [1pp. errata], as stated by ESTC-Dlr last line begins "sists".In three books. 1. The First Book contains grasses, bushes, reeds, corne, flags, and bulbous or onion-rooted plants. 2. The Second Book contains the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of all sorts of herbes, for meat, medicine, or sweet-smelling use. 3. The Third Book contains the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of trees, shrubs, busses, fruit-bearing plantes, rosins, gums, roses, heath, mosses, some Indian plants, and other rare plants not remembered in the proeme to the first booke. Also mushrooms, corall, ad their severall kindes. includes the Latin names of the plants and a table of the English names as are attributed to the herbes,…
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The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes…Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson
by GERARD, John [1545-1612]
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London: Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633. Second and Best Edition (first: 1597), the first to be edited by London apothecary and botanist, Thomas Johnson, who contributed extensived revisions and additions. “Gerard is perhaps the best remembered of all the English herbalists.” (Garrison & Morton). A barber surgeon, he supervised the gardens of Lord Burleigh and Theobolds and kept his own famous garden in Holborn for twenty years, for which he issued a list of plants cultivated, the first complete catalogue ever published of the contents of a single garden. According to Arber and the Osler catalogue, Gerard used as the basis of his herbal a translation of Dodoens begun by Robert Priest, but without any acknowledgment, while according to William T.Stearn (DSB), “to what extent Gerard was indebted to Priest’s work is quite uncertain…the Herball as published…was on the whole so massive a task that it seems charitable to credit [Gerard] with the whole. It remains…
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Fine illustrated and antiquarian Gardening . 2nd. Rev. Ed. Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers. 1636. pp.[xxxviii], 1632 with engraved title, over 2,500 wood-block engravings plus Indexes and Table of Virtues. Collated and complete. Folio. Hardback. Seven wood-block engravings hand coloured (not dated but in keeping with the practice of the period). Last leaf professionally remargined with loss to a couple of letters only. Other than marking to some margins, as is common with herbals, and some occ. minor spotting the contents are very clean and nr. fine. More recently handsomely rebound in full calf with raised bands and blind ruling decoration, a trifle marked o/w. fine. A very pleasing copy of Thomas Johnsons expanded version of John Gerardes Herball (first published 1597). It is noteworthy for its many corrections, improvements, additions (Henrey). Johnson indicated where he had made amendments with obelisk and double obelisk symbols.
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London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636. Third edition. Engraved title by John Payne, over 2700 woodcut illustrations to text. [38], 1630 [i.e, 1634], [48] pp. (lacking initial and final blank as usual). Folio. Later boards, rebacked in half calf, text toned with some light dampstaining. Third edition. Engraved title by John Payne, over 2700 woodcut illustrations to text. [38], 1630 [i.e, 1634], [48] pp. (lacking initial and final blank as usual). Folio. John Gerard was a 16th-century English botanist with a large herbal garden in London. His Herball, a 1,484 page illustrated book, was first published in 1597. It was a largely unacknowledged translation of Rembert Dodoen's herbal, itself published in 1554, and popular in Dutch, Latin, French, and in other English translations. This revised and enlarged third edition, the second by Thomas Johnson, corrects many of Gerard's errors and adds 800 new species and 700 woodcuts. This third edition is the most complete edition of…
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London: Printed for Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1636. Second Printing of the Best Edition Of The Most Famous English Herbal GERARD, John. The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London, Master in Chirurgerie, Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London. London: Printed for Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1636. Third edition of Gerard's Herball (first published in 1597), the second edition edited by Thomas Johnson, a reprint of his "very much enlarged and amended" 1633 edition, with the errata corrected in the text. Large folio (13 1/4 x 8 15/16 inches; 337 x 227 mm.). [38], 1630 [i.e, 1634], [1], [1, blank], [46, indexes and tables] pp. Bound without the initial and final blank leaves, as usual. Engraved allegorical title by John Payne and 2,766 woodcut illustrations of plants in the text. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Mid-nineteenth-century sprinkled calf,…
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London: Printed by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633. Second edition overall and first Johnson edition. Engraved title, woodcut illustrations. [38], 1630, [50] pp. Lacks preliminary and terminal blanks, as usual. 1 vols. Folio. Full panelled calf, expertly rebacked. Second edition overall and first Johnson edition. Engraved title, woodcut illustrations. [38], 1630, [50] pp. Lacks preliminary and terminal blanks, as usual. 1 vols. Folio. "This is the first edition enlarged and edited by Thomas Johnson (1595-1644) who corrected many of Gerard's more gullible errors, and improved the accuracy of the illustrations by using Plantin's woodcuts" (Hunt). "So great had been the progress of botany in the thirty-six years since Gerard's original publication, that Johnson added over eight hundred new species to the list, and seven hundred figures, besides numerous corrections. The work, which contains about 2,850 descriptions, is commonly known by the name 'Gerarde emaculatus,' given to it by…
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London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1636. The engraved title page mounted, with tiny losses at corners and inner margin, dedication leaf slightly soiled and stained, a few minor spots and stains; binding neatly repaired at joints and extremities; in overall excellent condition.. Thick folio, with more than 2500 woodcut illustrations of plants, as well as numerous other woodcut decorations; contemporary sprinkled calf, spine ornately gilt in wide compartments, red morocco label. A splendid copy of one of the most famous English herbals, here in the second printing of the best edition, Johnson's 'very much enlarged and amended' version which first appeared in 1633. This massive herbal made the barber-surgeon and horticulturist Gerard (1545-1612) famous when its first version appeared in 1597, and it remained highly esteemed for more than 200 years. Gerard's work was based on his experience in his own substantial gardens and as superintendent of several others in and around London,…
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