The Complete Herbal; To Which is Now Added, Upwards of One Hundred Additional Herbs, with a Display of their Medicinal and Occult Qualities Physically Applied to the Cure of All Disorders Incident to Mankind to Which are Now First Annexed, the English Physician Enlarged, and Key to Physic. With Rules for Compounding Medicine According to the True System of Nature. Forming a Complete Family Dispensatory and Natural System of Physic

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A very scarce Virtue & Co. new edition of Nicholas Culpeper's substantial herbal reference, with twenty colour plates. A new edition.In the original cloth binding.Illustrated with an additional engraved title and twenty hand-coloured plates to the rear of the work. Collated, complete.Containing a comprehensive description of nearly all herbs, alongside their medicinal properties and instructions for making up herbal remedies. Among those described are vervain, samphire, mugwort, viper's grass, star-thistle, toad-stools, tobacco, carraway, hemp, horsetail and more.From eminent English botanist, herbalist and physician Nicholas Culpeper. First appearing under the title The English Physitian in 1652 this work had enormous sales, forming the basis of herbalism in the English-Speaking world and serving as a source of pharmaceutical and herbal lore of the time. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Marks to the boards. Hinges are starting, but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spotting largely concentrated to the fore edge and margins. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 994Y50

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