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., and Title, mended, within elaborate engraved border, coat of arms of Lord Burghley on verso. Full page portrait of author facing p.1, dated 1598.
"Made and sold by Gregory and Wright (the patentees), mathematical instrument makers near the India House, Leadenhail Street"--p. 4., "Suppose ... the following observation were taken June 10, 1785"--P. 2., and Folded plate (20 x 30 cm.) loose, originally tipped in between p. 2-3.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Topic):
Astronomical instruments --Early works to 1800, Navigation --Early works to 1800, and Octants
Engraving showing the statue of Queen Anne at Blenhiem Palace (in background), and text of inscription by Sarah Marlborough, dated 1738, with imprint: London, Printed & published ... by R. Walker, in Fleet Lane.
BEIN Defoe 50 719 1: Publisher's advertisements, [4] p. following p. 364. Bookplate of John Frederick Doveton, L.L.B., First ed., first issue, with second state of t.p., third state of preface, and first state of text p. 353--cf. Hutchins, Robinson Crusoe, p. 52-71., and Published April 25, 1719.
Stamp of the American Antiquarian Society; autograph of Stephen Salisbury, jr.; imperfect: 1 leave of plates wanting. Includes (p. [17]-20): The butterfly's ball and the grasshopper's feast by William Roscoe.
Publisher:
Published by David Longworth at the Dramatic Repos