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The herball or Generall historie of plantes.

by: Gerard, John, 1545-1612

Publication date: 1597

Topics: Herbs, Herbals, Botany, Medical, Botany -- Pre-Linnean works, Potatoes, Tobacco, Tomatoes, Imprint 1597

Publisher: Imprinted at London : By Iohn Norton

Collection: roomsoftheirown; johncarterbrownlibraryexhibitions; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English

[20], 1,392 pages, [72] p. : 35 cm (fol.)

Fully engraved, illustrated title page

Colophon reads: Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton. M.D.XCVII

This work is actually a translation, by Robert Priest, and adaptation, by John Gerard, of Stirpium historiae pemptades six / by Rembert Dodoen, first printed in Antwerp, 1583

Includes a discussion and woodcut illustrations of the potato, tobacco, and the tomato, here said to have originated in Italy and Spain

Signatures: A⁴ B⁶ ²A-²B⁸ C-3X⁸ chi² 4A-4T⁸ 4V⁶ 5A-5I⁴ (5I4 verso blank)

Includes indexes

Woodcut head pieces; initials

Coat of arms of Lord Burghley on the verso of title page; full page portrait, in the first state, of author facing p. 1, 2nd count, dated 1598

Gift; 30058

Notes

No copyright, table of contents. Irregular pagination. Cropping of text may occur due to narrow margins.
Chapters not asserted due to multiple chapters appearing on single page.