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The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Healing Remedies
by C Norman Shealy
To meet public’s demands for more and better information on alternative therapies, Element is adding a new volume to its popular illustrated health reference library.The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Healing Remedies provides a chapter on each of the eight major alternative therapies: ayurveda, aromatherapy, flower essences, Chinese herbal medicine, herbal medicine, vitamins and minerals, homeopathy and folk remedies. Written by experts in each field, this full-color illustrated book explains everything...
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The Native American Herbalist's Bible 1 the Forgotten Art Of the Ancestors Of Medicine
by Linda Osceola Naranjo
Herbal Medicine Books & Ephemera
A Rhyming Alphabet of Medicinal Plants
by Oakeley, Henry
Beckenham: Henry Oakeley, 2016. Illustrated, slim square octavo, pp 42, paperback. NEW. ["An A to Z of rhymes (witty) and wisdom (useful) on medicinal plants and people. Beautiful 16th & 17th century woodcuts (some rude). A perfect present."]. J is for juniper, it's used to flavour gin, an aid to disinhibition and faciliating sin. R is for ranunculus, it always causes smiles, for the knobbly rootstock, was used to cure one's piles.. First Edition. Paperback. New.
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£2.99
An Exhibition of Flower Books From the Society of Herbalists
by Stearn, W.T. (text); Blunt, Wilfred (introduction); James, Philip (foreword)
London: The Arts Council of England, 1953. Small tall 12mo, (measures 110mm x 190mm), pp (8), 48, very clean internally, paperback, covers slightly age-toned, but otherwise a very good copy.. [Vignette title page, colophon illustration, but no others.]. [Postage will be reduced]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.
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£4.00
Flowers and Flower Lore
by Friend, Rev. Hilderic
London: W. Swann Sonenschein, 1884. Second edition, revised. Illustrated, very thick octavo, pp xvi, 704, one page badly opened with tear to the margins, original blue cloth, gilt decorated, rubbed, the spine very poor, cracked and weak, the rear joint broken, the front and rear hinges repaired with thick tape, the hinge at the end of the index completely broken, though the remaining text block is firm. With the label of the Battersea Salesian College. A working copy, but could be repaired. [A heavy...
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£17.50
![Stress: The Aromatic Solution [How Aromatherapy Can Relieve Stress and Stress-Related Conditions].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/606/966/327966606.0.b.jpg)
Stress: The Aromatic Solution [How Aromatherapy Can Relieve Stress and Stress-Related Conditions].
by Maggie Tisserand
London, UK Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows several faint creases at backstrip; just a hint of rubbing at the top of the front hinge; binding shows barely discernible lean, but remains perfectly secure; text clean. Despite minor defects as noted, a 'nearly new' copy of this scarce title. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 277pp. Line illustrations. Trade Paperback.
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£15.83
Landmarks of Botanical History. Part II.
by Greene, Edward Lee (edited by Frank N. Egerton)
Stanford University Press, 1983. Text illustrations throughout, thick octavo, pp (4), 509-1139, top and fore-edge a little foxed, otherwise clean internally, blue cloth, binding rather skewed from leaning on a shelf, in a very poor torn dustwrapper. [Presumably David Mabberley's copy as, loosely inserted, is a proof copy of his revue.]. First Edition. Cloth. Fair.
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£20.00
![Stalking the Healthful Herbs [Dan Mayers copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/402/435/1593435402.0.b.jpg)
Stalking the Healthful Herbs [Dan Mayers copy]
by Gibbons, Euell
New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1967. Fourth printing. Illustrated with simple line drawings, octavo, pp xvi, 303, very clean internally, cream cloth slightly faded and marked but a good sound copy. From the library of Dan E. Mayers, plantsman, chess-master, limerick-lover and eccentric, with bookplate showing his Arts & Crafts house "Lorien" in Wadhurst. [Euell Theophilus Gibbons, 1911 - 1975, was an outdoorsman and early health food advocate, promoting eating wild foods during the...
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£12.00
![Revision der Sektionenen Acanthophace Bunge und Aegacantha Bunge der Gattung Astragalus L. [Vicki Matthews' copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/447/196/1587196447.0.b.jpg)
Revision der Sektionenen Acanthophace Bunge und Aegacantha Bunge der Gattung Astragalus L. [Vicki Matthews' copy]
by Deml, Irmingard
Conservatoire Botanique de Geneve, 1972. Illustrated with line drawings and distribution maps, octavo, pp 235, very clean internally, paperback, a slight crease to the spine otherwise very good. [Boissiera Volume 21]. [From the library of the Kew botanist Vicki Matthews, with her signature on the upper cover and bookplate internally.]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.
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£10.00
Botany and Healing - Medicinal Plants of New Jersey and the Region.
by Still, Cecil C
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998. Illustrated with line drawings, large 8vo, pp xvi, 260, paperback, very good copy.. Paperback. New.
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£6.50
Livre des Simples Medecines - Codex Bruxellensis IV. 1024 : A 15th-century French Herbal. English translation by Enid Roberts and William T. Stearn - The text volume only
by Opsomer, Carmelia; Stearn, William T. & Roberts, Enid
Antwerp: De Schutter, 1984. English translation by Enid Roberts and William T. Stearn - The text volume only. Quarto, pp 293, very clean internally, full vellum, slightly rubbed and marked. [Provides an introduction to the French edition, a description of the Codex, and a list of sources. This is followed by Stearn's essay on Medieval Plant Names and Illustrations, and then a complete translation of the Codex. This copy is without the facsimile volume, but still of great intrinsic interest.] ....
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£65.00
![The Story of Culpeper House - World-Renowned Society of Herbalist [Catalogue]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/783/014/1541014783.0.b.jpg)
The Story of Culpeper House - World-Renowned Society of Herbalist [Catalogue]
by Culpeper House; Mrs C.F. Leyel; E.V. Lucas
London Illustrated, small octavo, pp 48, paperback, the covers slightly worn. [Not dated, but obviously not the first issue as many products have received manuscript price changes, almost certainly entered by the firm. Perhaps c.1935 ? On the first page "American Catalogue" has been written, though I see nothing else to support this. A fascinating booklet, with much information on the business, and several references from stars such as Yvonne Arnaud, Evelyn Laye and Dorothy Dickson. Loosely...
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£35.00
Food Plants of British Columbia Indians. Part 1 - Coastal Peoples. Part 2 - Interior Peoples
by Turner, Nancy J. & Szczawinski
Victoria: British Columbia Provincial Museum [1982 - 1978]. Two volumes, small octavo, pp 264; 259, well illustrated with colour and black and white photographs, very clean internally, paperback, covers in very good condition, a lovely set, virtually as new. [A very detailed work. The second volume is extremely sarce.]. Paperback. Very Good.
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£40.00
The Compleat Herbal of Physical Plants. Containing all such English and Foreign Herbs, Shrubs and Trees as are used in Physick and Surgery....also directions for making compound-waters, syrups, electuaries, pills, powders...gums, balsams, oils, juices .
by Pechey, John
The Red Lion in St Paul's Churchyard, London: R. & J. Bonwicke, 1707. "The Second edition, with the addition of many physical herbs and their vertues". 12mo (measures 165mm x 105mm), pp (6), 349, (29) (though errors in pagination mean that there are actually 411 pages of main text), slightly used and marked throughout, contemporary panelled calf, dull and cracke but very sound, early repairs to the corners, fairly recently rebacked with new calf spine, raised bands and title label....
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£585.00
The Compleat Herbal of Physical Plants. Containing all such English and Foreign Herbs, Shrubs and Trees as are used in Physick and Surgery....also directions for making compound-waters, syrups, electuaries, pills, powders...gums, balsams, oils, juices .
by Pechey, John
The Red Lion in St Paul's Churchyard, London: R. & J. Bonwicke, 1707. "The Second edition, with the addition of many physical herbs and their vertues". 12mo (measures 165mm x 105mm), pp (6), 349, (29) (though errors in pagination mean that there are actually 411 pages of main text), a little used and marked throughout, the contemporary signature of an early owner on the blank facing the title page (Wm Brecknock - his book - 1714), and his signature again on the preface page, the front...
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£475.00
Index Stirpium Hortus Botanicus (the first plan of Leiden Botanic Garden)
by Clusius. Cluyt
Originally drawn up in1594, the year of its creation, this is a poorly produced photo copy of the original manuscript, paperback, ring-bound. It is not clear if this was ever issued for sale, or if it has been produced privately. [The drawings of this first garden plan have been preserved in Leiden University Library, and include a list of the plants in each numbered section. This reveals that there were not only medicinal plants in the garden but anything on which Clusius and Cluyt could lay their...
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£10.00
Turkish Folk Medicinal Plants parts V, VI, VII. + Contribution to Traditional Medicine in Western Anatolia
by TUZLACI, G.; EMRE BULUTUT, G.; SADIKLOGU,. E. ; ALPARSLAN, D.F.; ASLAN, A. (et al)
Istanbul: Istanbul Universitesi, 2008. Articles of 55 pages contained in the complete edition of Journal of Faculty Pharmacy of Istanbul University, Volume 39. Very good condition, octavo, paperback.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.
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£6.50
Guide to Medicinal Plants
by Schauenberg, Paul & Paris, Ferdinand
Guildford & London: Lutterworth Press, 1977. Illustrated, small octavo, pp 349, top edge foxed, fore-edge slightly foxed, green cloth very good, a good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper.. First English edition. Cloth. Good/Very Slightly Worn.
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£6.50
Atlas of the History of Medicine. Volume 1 - Anatomy
by De Lint, J.G
London: H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd, 1926. Very well illustrated, tall quarto, pp 96, a very good copy, with only slight wear to the red cloth. A tiny owner's name-stamp on the title page, and another and signature on the front endpaper.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.
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£32.50
The Garden of Health: containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants. Together with the manner how they are to bee used and applied in medicine for the health of mans body, against divers diseases
by Langham, William
London: Thomas Harper, 1633. Thick square octavo, pp (6), 702, (66), printed in black letter. The title page is mounted and heavily restored from a much earlier time; it is age-toned and there is much staining of the surface, possibly from the glue used to repair ? The first few pages are fragile at the leading edge and lacking a few small pieces; the remaining pages are age-toned and occasionally slightly marked or stained, certainly used but overall quite sound with no tears or loss. Later calf with...
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£1,950.00
The Potomac Herb Journal. Volume IV numbers 2 & 3; Volume V numbers 1, 3 & 4; Volumes VI complete throught to Volume IX number 3 + Index for 1965 - 69
Potomac Unit of the Herb Society of America 1968-1973. Paperbacks, each issue comprised 16 pages with an illustration and usually several short articles and recipes. Rarely occurs for sale.. Paperback. Very Good.
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£12.00
A Modern Herbal : The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk Lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs and Trees
by Grieve, Mrs M. (edted by Mrs C.F. Leyel)
London: Penguin Books, 1978. Illustrated, large thick octavo, pp xvi, 912, a little age-toned but otherwise very clean internally, paperback,the spine slightly concave, the covers in very good condition. A considerably better-than-usual copy [Originally published in 1931].. Paperback. Very Good.
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£20.00
The medicinal and poisonous plants of Southern Africa: being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal
by Watt, John Mitchell and Maria Gerdina Breyer-Brandwijk
Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd, 1962. Second edition. Thick quarto, well illustrated, pp xii, 1457, very clean internally, hinge after the last index page is cracked, otherwise very sound, grey and orange cloth, very slightly worn, the spine dull.. Second edition. Cloth. Very Good.
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£250.00
![The Treasure of Euonymus, containing the wonderful hid secretes of nature, Touchinge the Most Apte Formes to Prepare and Destyl Medicines, for the Conservation of Helth: as Quintessence, aromatical wynes, balmes, oyles, perfumes.... [1559]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/454/565/1599565454.0.b.jpg)
The Treasure of Euonymus, containing the wonderful hid secretes of nature, Touchinge the Most Apte Formes to Prepare and Destyl Medicines, for the Conservation of Helth: as Quintessence, aromatical wynes, balmes, oyles, perfumes.... [1559]
by Gesner, Conrad
New York: Walter J. Johnson Inc., 1975. Facsimile reprint, thick square octavo, a few woodcut illus, pp [20], 408, [Black Letter print], a very good hardback copy. [Conrad Gesner (1516 - 1565) was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist. He is regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography, zoology and botany. He was frequently the first to describe species of plants or animals in Europe, such as the tulip in 1559. A number of plants and animals have been named after...
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£80.00
And Some Brought Flowers - Plants in a New World
by Downie, Mary Ellice & Hamilton, Mary (editors)
University of Toronto Press, 1980. Illustrated with delicate watercolours by E.J. Revell, large octavo, pp xvi, 164, fore-edge slightly foxed, otherwise very clean internally, decorated cream cloth, very slightly marked, a good copy in a slightly worn and age-toned dustwrapper. [Aspects of the flora of North America, particularly Canada, as perceived by the early settlers, using contenporary accounts. When Martin Frobisher reached the coast of North America in 1576 'he commanded his company, if by...
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£10.00
Woodland Nuggets of Gold - the story of American Ginseng cultivation
by Hardacre, Val
Northville, Michigan: Holland House Press, 1974. Second edition, revised and enlarged. A few illustrations, octavo, pp 331, very clean internally, red cloth in very good condition, a very good copy in a slightly rubbed dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE.. Second edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly rubbed.
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£25.00
Medical Flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America : containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c. : and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes
by Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel)
Philadelphia: Atkinson and Alexander, 1830. First edition. Two volumes, uncut in period style quarter green morocco. 7-1/4 x 4-1/4 inches, xii, 268, 276 pp. 100 woodcut plates printed in green, with plates 50 and 53 (the last in v. 1 and the first in v. 2) provided in excellent facsimile. Fine condition. "Beginning in 1818, with his 2,000-mile tour to the west of the Alleghenies, Rafinesque made important botanical explorations, mostly on foot, as far as Kentucky and Illinois" (DSB). "Rafinesque was a...
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£2,019.00
