John Hill - The Family Herbal - 54 Hand Coloured Plates - Botany / Medicine 1810

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The Family Herbal, or an Account of All Those English Plants, Which are Remarkable for Their Virtues, and of the Drugs Which are Produced by Vegetables of Other Countries; With Their Descriptions and Their Uses, As Proved by Experience.Intended for the Use of Families. HILL, John: C. Brightly, and T. Kinnersley (c 1810), Bungay. Recent � leather binding. viii, xl, 376 pp., with 54 fine hand-colored plates, illustrating 150 plants. A later edition. Small 4to. The colourful "Sir" John Hill first published his popular herbal in 1754, with only eight plates. In an age when herbals were relied upon by families for the home preparation of medical remedies, the importance of such works is obvious. Hill, though considered a quack in some respects, produced the first Linnaean flora of Britain, and was a physician, botanist, and writer of considerable skill. Wellcome, III, p. 264. Henry, III, 827. Nissen BBI, 883. See Hunt Catalogue, II, Part II, 551. See Rohde, The Old English Herbals, p. 222. Some wear to the pages, with contemporary annotations to the rear a few of the plates. A very good copy of the first Bungay edition; and first newly-illustrated edition.
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