Thomas culpeper (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Einband - fest (Hardcover). Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Culpeper's Book of Birth: A Seventeenth Century Guide to Having Lusty Children This book is in good or better condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages will be missing from the book. The spine of the book is still in great condition and the front cover is generally unmarked. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Shipping is normally same day from our UK warehouse. We offer a money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. Warne, Sue (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Nicholas Culpeper's influential work on herbal medicine, illustrated with vibrant coloured plates. Culpeper's 'Herbal' was an enormously successful seventeenth century work, first published as 'The English Physician' in 1652.This work is a complete guide to herbs, discussing their medicinal and occult qualities for which they can be used, and has been a standard reference work for pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge.Culpeper's aim for this work was to make medical treatments more accessible to the public, intending to educate them about herbs which could be used to help maintain their health.Illustrated with an engraved title page, and nineteen brightly hand coloured plates. Collated, lacking plate no I, which should be a hand coloured botanical plate.Undated; dated 1842 via the University of Bristol Libraries.Inscription to verso of plate II.Written by Nicholas Culpeper, a botanist, herbalist, and astrologer. He spent most of his life cataloguing medicinal herbs, and was briefly accused of witchcraft in the English Civil War. He was a relative of Thomas Culpeper, the lover of Catherine Howard, who was beheaded on order of Henry VIII. In a full cloth binding. Handling marks to boards, with bump to back strip head, and small bump to centre of back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Engraved title page laid down, with losses to perimeters. Large tide mark to engraved title tail. Inscription to verso of plate II. Plates and pages age toned, with handling marks and instances of spotting throughout. Lacking one plate. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…