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The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe Duche & Frenche wyth the commune names that herbaries and apotecaries vse

by: Turner, William, -1568

Publication date: 1548

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: Herbs, Botany, Medical, Medicinal plants, Plants, Medicinal, United Kingdom

Publisher: Imprinted at London : By [Steven Mierdman for] John Day and Wyllyam Seres, dwellynge in Sepulchres Parish at the signe of the Resurrection a litle aboue Holbourne Conduite

Collection: opensource

Language: English

William Turner, The Names of Herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe Duche & Frenche wyth the Commune Names that Herbaries and Apotecaries Use. Gathered by William Turner. (1st edition) (Imprinted at London: By [Steven Mierdman for] John Day and Wyllyam Seres, dwellynge in Sepulchres Parish at the signe of the Resurrection a litle aboue Holbourne Conduite, 1548; OCLC 700375245).

Source: Google Books (https://books.google.com/books?id=quQql5HMlmAC&printsec=frontcover).

[128] p. ; 14 cm. (8vo).

Imprint from colophon; printer's name and publication date from STC; the dedication is dated: Anno Dom. M.CCCCxlviij. Martii.xv.

"A much-expanded English translation of Turner's Libellus [de re herbaria novus ... They] mark the beginning of scientific botany in England. They contain the first records of the occurrence of some 238 species of flowering plants, a few of them precisely localized ..."--Garrison-Morton.

Title within woodcut border. Cf. McKerrow & Ferguson 64.

Woodcut initials.

Signatures: A-H⁸ (H8 blank).

Final leaf blank. Cf. ESTC.

This edition not in Hunt.

NLM copy lacks the blank leaf (possibly used as the back paste-down?).

NLM copy provenance: inscribed on t.p. in c17 hand: "Godfrey Widlake"; collated by B. Quaritch; John Evelyn's copy; lot no 1493/1 in Christie's July 12, 1978 Evelyn sale.

NLM copy bound in c18 (?) calfskin, with gilt-stamp binder's title on the spine: Turner's Names of Herbes 1548; all edges sprinkled.

Addeddate: 2022-07-15 18:25:54

Associated-names: Mierdman, Steven, active 1551, printer; Seres, William, -approximately 1579, printer; Day, John, 1522-1584, printer; Evelyn, John, 1620-1706, former owner