The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirvrgerie

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Title
The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirvrgerie
Creator
Gerard, John, 1545-1612
Published / Created
1597. and by Iohn Norton
Publication Place
Imprinted at London
Description
Colophon: Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton. M.D.XCVII.
Epistle Dedicatorie [to Sir William Cecil, baron Burghley] -- [Commendatory verse and prose, mainly in Latin] -- To the courteous and well-willing Readers. -- First booke of the Historie of Plants, containing Grasses, Rushes, Corne, Flags, Bulbose, or Onion-rooted Plants. -- Second booke ... Containing the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of all sorts of herbs for meate, medicine, or sweete smelling vse, etc. -- Third booke ... Containing Trees, Shrubs, bushes, Fruit-bearing plants, Rosins, Gums, Roses, Heath, Mosses: some Indian plants, and other rare plants ... Also Mushroms, Corall, and their seuerall kindes, etc. -- Index latinvs ... stirpivm. -- Index nominum Herbarum, quibus Pharmacopolarum officinæ, Barbari & Arabes vtuntur. -- Nominvm et opinionvm harmonia et consensus. -- Table of the English names. -- Supplement or Appendix vnot the generall Table, and to the Table of English names : gathered. -- Table, wherein is contained the Nature, Vertue, and Danger of all the Herbes, Trees and Plants.
Errors in paging.
Signatures: A⁴, B⁶, A⁸-Vvv⁸, Xxx¹⁰; Aaaa-Tttt⁸, Vvvv⁶; Aaaaa-Iiiii⁴, last verso blank.
Title, mended, within elaborate engraved border, coat of arms of Lord Burghley on verso. Full page portrait of author facing p.1, dated 1598.
Extent
10 p.l., 1392, [71] p. illus. 34 cm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been partially digitized.

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Si8 0168

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
text
Genre
Engravings
Illustrations
Title pages
Resource Type
Books, Journals & Pamphlets

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Citation
STC 11750

Identifiers

Catalog Record
3469108
Object ID (OID)
10687506

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