Search Results: the family herbal or an account by sir john hill

Bungay; Printed And Published By C. Brightly And T. Kinnersley, . Bungay First Edition Thus With Unnumbered Plates. Hardcover. Good solid Rebacked Copy, Verso Of Front Free End Paper And Front Fly Contain Fancy Calligraphied Name Of thomas Crook Fling, Hants, 1815, These Color Plate Leaves Are Worn And Frayed, Are Partially adhered To Adjoining Page, Calf Leather Cover Edges Are Worn But Solid, Text Block With Occasionally Soiled Pages, Lacks page 303/304. Octavo, Hardcover, Full Leather Rebacked And with New Leather Spine Label Gilt Lettered, Original Covers. 1810 Fifty Four Hand Coloured Plates Most With At Least Two Images, many up to four Octavo, Hardcover, Full Leather Rebacked And with New Leather Spine Label Gilt Lettered, Original Covers, , PP.title, iii, viii, xl, 376, Sir JOhn Hill (ca1716-1775) was a physician, apothecary, and writer who first published this work in 52 parts between 1756 and 1757; All The Parts were later bound into one volume, It is noteworthy for being one of the… Read More

Printed and Published by J & R. Childs, Bungay, 1822, reprint. Rebound some while ago in quarter leather with marbled boards. Five raised bands to spine. The word ""Herbal"" in gilt on a red leather patch to compartment two. 8.75ins x 5.5ins, viii, xl, 376pp plus 52pp coloured plates. (The 1812 edition contained 54pp plates - there is no list of plates for this edition, but, it is likely that it should have 54 plates). Scattered browning to both text and plate pages. A well preserved G+ copy.

Bungay: C. Brightly, and T. Kinnersley, circa 1808. Undated but circa 1808. 8vo in fours. [iii], viii, [i], xl, 376pp plus colour plates. Modern quarter calf gilt over marbled boards. New endpapers. Fifty four hand-coloured plates at rear. Very good. Some spotting, offsetting and dust-soiling.

Bungay: J. & R. Childs, 1822 . Leather. Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A richly illustrated edition of English composer, actor, author and botanist Sir John Hill's discussion of the medicinal usage of English plants. First published in 1755 as 'The Useful Family Herbal, this work was first published under the 'Family Herbal' title in 1810.Illustrated with fifty-four hand-coloured plates. Collated, complete.Hill is best remembered for his illustrated botanical compendium 'The Vegetable System', which was one of the first works to use the nomenclature of Carl Linnaeus.Hill also discusses the 'drugs which are produced by the vegetables of other countries'.Endpapers renewed.The back strip is laid down upside down.A fascinating, alphabetically arranged, guide to the use of the plants of England, with illustrations of over two hundred individual plants. In a half calf binding, with cloth covered boards. Rebacked, with joints reinforced with cloth, and back strip laid down upside down. Loss of leather to… Read More

Bungay, Suffolk, England: C. Brightly and Co. and T. Kinnersly, 1812. Leather-bound. Very Good. 8vo. 8 3/8 in. x 5 in. Contemporary tree calf, double-ruled in gilt chain pattern. Contrasting spine label - six compartments. Owner name Samuel S. Parkinson to front free endpaper. Note to front pastedown: "Collated May 30, 1902), and double initialed. FIFTY-FOUR ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL COLORED PLATES. 376 pp. Tight, clean copy of a 110+ year-old book, ready for daily use! "...It is his [the author's] opinion that the true end of science is use; and in this view, the present work has been undertaken.

Very Good. 54 Hand Colored Plates.