Chapter VII: The Later Seventeenth-Century Herbals (3)

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_Colophon._ Londini, 1571 | Calendis Januariis excudebat
prelum Tho- | mæ Purf[oe]tii ad Lucretie symbolum. | Cum
gratia Priuilegii. |

1605. Petrus Pena & Matthias de L'Obel. Dilvcidæ simplicivm
medicamenorvm explicationes, & stirpivm adversaria,
perfacilis vestigatio, luculentaque accessio ad priscorum,
præsertim Dioscoridis & recentiorum materiæ medicæ solidam
cognitionem. Londini 1605.

1654. Matthiæ de l'Obel M.D. Botanographi Regii eximii
Stirpium Illustrationes. Plurimas elaborantes inauditas
plantas, subreptitiis Joh: Parkinsoni rapsodiis ex codice MS
insalutato sparsim gravatæ Ejusdem adjecta sunt ad calcem
Theatri Botanici Accurante Guil: How, Anglo. Londini Typis
Tho: Warren, Impensis Jos: Kirton, Bibliopolæ, in Cæmeterio
D. Pauli. 1654.

_John Frampton._

1580. Second edition.

¶ Imprinted at London in | Poules Churche-yarde, by |
Willyam Norton. | 1577 |.

(A duplicate of the preceding with a different title-page.)

(For the Spanish original and Latin, Italian, French,
Flemish and German translations see Bibliography of Foreign
Herbals.)

_Henry Lyte._

_Colophon._ Imprinted at Antwerpe, by me | Henry Loë
Bookeprinter, and are to be | solde at London in Powels
Churchyarde, | by Gerard Dewes.

1586. A New Herball or Historie of Plants: Wherein is
contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all
sorts of Herbes and Plants: their diuers and sundrie kindes:
their Names, Natures, Operations & Vertues: and that not
onely of those which are heere growing in this our Countrie
of England, but of all others also of forraine Realms
commonly used in Physicke. First set foorth in the Dutch or
Almaigne toong by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens Physition
to the Emperor: And now first translated out of French into
English by Henrie Lyte Esquier. Imprinted at London by
Ninian Newton. 1586.

1595. Title identical with above, except for the addition of
"Corrected and Amended. Imprinted at London by Edm:
Bollifant, 1595."

1619. A New Herbal or Historie of Plants: Wherein is
contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all
sorts of Herbes and Plants: their diuers and sundry kindes
their Names, Natures, Operations and Vertues: and that not
onely of those which are here growing in this our Country of
England but of all others also of forraine Realmes commonly
used in Physicke. First set forth in the Dutch or Almaigne
tongue by the learned D. Rembert Dodoens Physicion to the
Emperor; and now first translated out of French into English
by Henry Lyte Esquire. Corrected and Amended. Imprinted at
London by Edward Griffin. 1619.

_William Ram._

1606. Rams little Dodoen. A briefe Epitome of the New
Herbal, or History of Plants. Wherein is contayned the
disposition and true declaration of the Phisike helpes of
all sortes of herbes and Plants, under their names and
operations, not onely of those which are here in this our
Countrey of England growing but of all others also of other
Realmes, Countreyes and Nations used in Phisike: Collected
out of the most exquisite newe Herball, or History of Plants
first set forth in the Dutch or Almayne tongue by the
learned and worthy man of famous memory, D. Rembert Dodeon,
(_sic_) Phisicion to the Emperour; And lately translated
into English by Henry Lyte, Esquire; And now collected and
abbridged by William Ram, Gent. Pandit Oliua suos Ramos.

Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford, dwelling in the Cloth
Fayre, at the signe of the three Crownes. 1606.

_William Langham._

1579. The Garden of Health: containing the sundry rare and
hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of Simples and
Plants. Together with the manner how they are to bee used
and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, against
diuers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men.
Gathered by the long experience and industry of William
Langham, Practitioner in Physicke. London. Printed by Thomas
Harper with permission of the Company of Stationers.

1633. Second edition. Identical title with the addition "The
Second edition corrected and amended."

_Thomas Newton._

(The dedicatory epistle is to the Earl of Essex.)

_John Gerard._

1596. [Catalogus arborum fruticum ac plantarum tam
indigenarum quam exoticarum, in horto Ioannis Gerardi civis
et Chirurgi Londinensis nascentium-Londini. Ex officina
Roberti Robinson 1596.]

1599. Second edition. Londini. Ex officina Arnoldi Hatfield,
impensis Ioannis Norton. (The only known copy of the first
edition is in the Sloane collection in the British Museum.)

1876. Modern reprint with notes, etc., by B. D. Jackson.

_Colophon._ Imprinted at London by Edm Bollifant, | for
Bonham & John | Norton M.D.XCVII.

1636. Second edition of the above.

_John Parkinson._

1629. [Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. A Garden of
all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers Which Our English Ayre will
Permitt to be noursed up: with A Kitchen garden of all
manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause used
with us, and An Orchard of all sorte of fruit bearing Trees
and shrubbes fit for our Land together With the right
orderinge planting & preseruing of them and their uses &
vertues. Collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London
1629.

_Colophon._ London. Printed by Humfrey Lownes and Robert
Young at the signe of the Starre on Bread-Street hill. 1629.

1656. Second edition. Title, etc., identical with above.

1904. Facsimile reprint. Paradisi in Sole. Paradisus
Terrestris by John Parkinson. Faithfully reprinted from the
edition of 1629. Methuen & Co.]

1640. Theatrum Bo | tanicum: | The Theater of Plants | or a
Herball of | a | large extent: | containing therein a more
ample and | exact History and declaration of the Physicall
Herbs | and Plants that are in other Authors, encreased by
the accesse of | many hundreds of newe, | rare and strange
Plants from all parts of | the world, with sundry Gummes and
other Physicall Materi | als than hath been hitherto
published by any before, and | a most large demonstration of
their Names and Vertues. | Shewing withall the many errors
and differences & | oversights of Sundry Authors that have
formerly written of | them, and a certaine confidence, or
most probable con | jecture of the true and Genuine Herbes |
and Plants. | Distributed into Sundry Classes or Tribes for
the | more easie knowledge of the many Herbes of one nature
| and property with the chief notes of Dr. Lobel, Dr. Bonham
| and others inserted therein. | Collected by the many
yeares travaile, industry and experience in this subject, by
John Parkinson Apothecary of London, and the King's
Herbalist. And Published by the King's Majestyes especiall
priviledge. London. Printed by Tho. Cotes. 1640.

_Leonard Sowerby._

1651. [The Ladies Dispensatory, containing the Natures,
Vertues, and Qualities of all Herbs, and Simples usefull in
Physick. Reduced into a Methodicall Order, for their more
ready use in any sicknesse or other accident of the Body.
The like never published in English. With An Alphabeticall
Table of all the Vertues of each Herb, and Simple. London.
Printed for R. Ibbitson, to be sold by George Calvert at the
Halfe-Moon in Watling Street. 1651.]

_Robert Pemell._

1652. [Tractatus, De facultatibus Simplicium, A Treatise of
the Nature and Qualities of such Simples as are most
frequently used in Medicines. Methodically handled for the
benefit of those that understand not the Latine Tongue. By
Robert Pemell, Practitioner of Physick, at Cranebrooke in
Kent. London, Printed by M. Simmons, for Philemon Stephens,
at the guilded Lyon in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1652.

1653. Second Part of the above "Treatise." London, Printed
by J. Legatt, for Philemon Stephens, at the guilded Lion in
Paul's Church-yard. 1653.]

_Nicholas Culpeper._

1652. The English Physician Or an Astrologo-physical
Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation Being a
Compleat Method of Physick whereby a man may preserve his
Body in health; or cure himself, being sick, for three pence
charge, with such things one-ly as grow in England, they
being most fit for English Bodies.

Herein is also shewed,

1. The way of making Plaisters, Oyntments, Oyls, Pultisses,
Syrups, Decoctions, Julips, or Waters of all Sorts of
Physical Herbs, that you may have them ready for your use at
all times of the year.

2. What Planet governeth Every Herb or Tree used in Physick
that groweth in England.

3. The Time of gathering all Herbs, but vulgarly and
astrologically.

4. The way of drying and Keeping the Herbs all the year.

5. The way of Keeping the Juyces ready for use at all times.

6. The way of making and keeping all Kinde of usefull
Compounds made of Herbs.

7. The way of mixing Medicines according to Cause and
Mixture of the Disease, and Part of the Body afflicted.

By N. Culpeper, Student in Physick and Astrology.

London, Printed for the benefit of the Common-wealth of
England. 1652.

(This is the edition repudiated by the author in subsequent
editions as incorrect and unauthorised.)

Subsequent editions 1653, 1661, 1693, 1695, 1714, 1725,
1733, 1784, 1792, 1814, 1820.

1818. (_Welsh translation._) Herbal, Neu Lysieu-Lyfr. Y Rhan
Gyntaf, Yn Cynnwys Go o Gynghorion Teuluaidd Hawdd iw cael;
Wedi ei casglu allan o Waith. N. Culpeper. Ag amrywiol
eraill, a'r rhan fwyaf o honynt wedi eu profi yn rhinwellol
ac effeilhiol i symud yr amrywrol ddoluriau ac y mae ein
Cyrph llygredig yn ddarostyngedig iddynt: Ac y maent yn
hollawl ilw defnyddw o Ddail a Llysiau ein bwlad ein hunain.
Cewch hefyd gyfar wyddyd i ollwng Gwaed, ac y gymeryd Purge.
Yr ail argraphiad. Gan D. T. Jones. Caernarfon, Argraphwyd
Gan L. E. Jones. 1818.

1862. Second edition of the above.

_William Coles._

1656. The Art of Simpling. An Introduction to the Knowledge
and Gathering of Plants. Wherein the Definitions, Divisions,
Places, Descriptions, Differences, Names, Vertues, Times of
flourishing and gathering, Uses, Temperatures, Signatures
and Appropriations of Plants, are methodically laid down.
Whereunto is added A Discovery of the Lesser World. By W.
Coles. London. Printed by J. G. for Nath: Brook at the
Angell in Cornhill. 1656.

1657. Adam in Eden, or Nature's Paradise. The History of
Plants, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers. With their several Names,
whether Greek, Latin, or English; the places where they
grow; their Descriptions and Kinds; their times of
flourishing and decreasing; as also their several
Signatures, Anatomical Appropriations, and particular
Physical Vertues; together with necessary Observations on
the Seasons of Planting, and gathering of our English
Simples, with Directions how to preserve them in their
Compositions or otherwise. A Work of such a Refined and
Useful Method that the Arts of Physick and Chirurgerie are
so clearly Laid Open, that Apothecaries, Chirurgions, and
all other ingenuous Practitioners, may from our own Fields
and Gardens, best agreeing with our English Bodies, on
emergent and Sudden occasions, compleatly furnish themselves
with cheap, easie, and wholesome Cures for any part of the
body that is ill-affected. For the Herbalists greater
benefit, there is annexed a Latin and English Table of the
several names of Simples; with another more particular Table
of the Diseases, and their Cures, treated of in this so
necessary a Work. By William Coles, Herbalist. Printed by J.
Streater for Nathaniel Brooke.

_Robert Lovell._

1659. +PAMBOTANOLOGIA.+ Sive Enchiridion Botanicum. Or a
compleat Herball, Containing the Summe of what hath hitherto
been published either by Ancient or Moderne Authors both
Galenicall and Chymicall, touching Trees, Shrubs, Plants,
Fruits, Flowers, etc. In an Alphabeticall order: wherein all
that are not in the Physick Garden in Oxford are noted with
asterisks. Shewing their Place, Time, Names, Kindes,
Temperature, Vertues, Use, Dose, Danger and Antidotes.
Together with an Introduction to Herbarisme, etc. Appendix
of Exoticks. Universall Index of plants: shewing what grow
wild in England. By Robert Lovell. Oxford. Printed by
William Hall for Ric Davis. An. 1659.

1665. Second edition. +PAMBOTANOLOGIA.+ Sive Enchiridion
Botanicum. Or a compleat Herball, Containing the Summe of
Ancient and Moderne Authors, both Galenical and Chymical,
touching Trees, Shrubs, Plants, Fruits, Flowers, etc. In an
Alphabetical order: wherein all that are not in the Physick
Garden in Oxford are noted with Asterisks. Shewing their
Place, Time, Names, Kinds, Temperature, Vertues, Use, Dose,
Danger and Antidotes. Together with An Introduction to
Herbarisme, etc. Appendix of Exoticks. Universal Index of
Plants: shewing what grow wild in England. The second
Edition with many Additions mentioned at the end of the
Preface. By Robert Lovell.

Oxford. Printed by W. H. for Ric. Davis. 1665.

_John Josselyn._

1672. [New England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts,
Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that country. Together with
the Physical and Chyrurgical Remedies wherewith the Natives
constantly use to Cure their Distempers, Wounds and Sores.
Also A perfect Description of an Indian Squa in all her
Bravery; with a Poem not improperly Conferr'd upon her.
Lastly A Chronological Table of the most remarkable Passages
in that Country amongst the English. Illustrated with Cuts.
By John Josselyn Gent.

London Printed for G. Widdowes at the Green Dragon in St.
Pauls Church-yard, 1672.]

_W. Hughes._

1672. The American Physitian; Or a Treatise of the Roots,
Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Fruit, Herbs, etc., growing in the
English Plantations in America. Describing the Place, Time,
Names, Kindes, Temperature, Vertues and Uses of them, either
for Diet, Physick, etc. Whereunto is added A Discourse of
the Cacao-Nut-Tree, and the use of its Fruit, with all the
ways of making Chocolate. The like never extant before. By
W. Hughes.

London, Printed by J. C. for William Crook, at the Green
Dragon without Temple-Bar. 1672.

_John Archer._

1673. A Compendious Herbal, discovering the Physical Vertue
of all Herbs in this Kingdom, and what Planet rules each
Herb, and how to gather them in their Planetary Hours.
Written by John Archer, One of His Majesties Physicians in
Ordinary. London, Printed for the Author, and are to be sold
at his House at the Sign of the Golden Ball in Winchester
Street, near Broad Street. 1673.

_Robert Morison._

1680. [Plantarum Historiæ Universalis Oxoniensis. Pars
Secunda seu Herbarum Distributio Nova, per Tabulas
Cognationis & Affinitatis Ex Libro Naturæ Observata &
Detecta. Auctore Roberto Morison. Medico & Professore
Botanico Regio, nec non Inclytæ & Celeberrimæ Universitatis
Oxoniensis P. B. ejusdemque Hort. Botan. Præfecto primo.
Oxonii, E Theatro Sheldoniano Anno Domini M.D.C.LXXX.

1699. Pars tertia. Partem hanc tertiam, post Auctoris
mortem, hortatu Academiæ explevit & absolvit Jacobus
Bobartius forte præfectus.]

(The first part was never published.)

_John Ray._

1686. [Historia Plantarum Species hactenus editas aliasque
insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens. In
qua agitur primo De Plantis in genere, Earumque Partibus,
Accidentibus & Differentiis; Deinde Genera omnia tum summa
tum Subalterna ad Species usque infimas, Notis suis certis &
Characteristicis Definita, Methodo Naturæ vestigiis
insistente disponuntur; Species Singulæ accurate
describuntur, obscura illustrantur, omissa supplentur,
superflua resecantur, Synonyma necessaria Adjiciuntur; Vires
denique & Usus recepti compendiò traduntur. Auctore Joanne
Raio, E Societate Regiâ & S.S. Individuæ Trinitatis Collegii
apud Cantabrigienses Quondam Socio.

Londini Mariæ Clark: Prostant apud Henricum Faithorne Regiæ
Societatis Typographum ad Insigne Rosæ in Cæmeterio. D
Pauli.

CI[C] I[C] CLXXXVL]

_Leonard Plukenet._

1690. [Leonardi Plukenetij Phytographia. Sive Stirpium
Illustriorum & minus cognitarum Icones, Tabulis Æneis, Summa
diligentia elaboratæ, Quarum unaquæg Titulis descriptorijs
ex Notis Suis proprijs, & Characteristicis desumptis,
insignita; ab alijs ejusdem Sortis facile discriminatur.
Pars prior Meminisse juvabit. Londini MDCXC, Sumptibus
Autoris.]

_William Westmacott._

1694. +THEOLOBOTANOLOGIA.+ Sive Historia Vegetabilium Sacra:
or, a Scripture Herbal; wherein all the Trees, Shrubs,
Herbs, Plants, Flowers, Fruits, &c., Both Foreign and
Native, that are mentioned in the Holy Bible, (being near
Eighty in Number) are in an Alphabetical Order, Rationally
Discoursed of, Shewing, Their Names, Kinds, Descriptions,
Places, Manner of Propagation, Countries, various Uses,
Qualities and Natural Principles, &c. Together with their
Medicinal Preparations, Virtues and Dose, Galenically and
Chymically handled and Performed according to the newest
Doctrines of Philosophy, Herbarism and Physick. The whole
being Adorned with variety of Matter, and Observations, not
only Medicinall, but Relating to the Alimental and
Mechanical Uses of the Plants. Fit for Divines, and all
Persons of any other Profession and Calling whatsoever, that
use to read the Holy Scriptures, wherein they find not only
Physick for the Soul, but also with the help of this Herbal,
(may the better understand the Bible, which also yields
them) safe Medicines for the Cure of their Corporal
Diseases. The like never extant before. By William
Westmacott of the Borough of Newcastle under Line, in the
County of Stafford, Physican. Adoro Scripturæ Plenitudinem.
Tertul. London, Printed for T. Salusbury, at the King's-Arms
next St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street. 1694.

_John Pechey._

1694. The Compleat Herbal of Physical Plants. Containing All
such English and Foreign Herbs, Shrubs and Trees, as are
used in Physick and Surgery. And to the Virtues of those
that are now in use, is added one Receipt, or more, of some
Learned Physician. The Doses or Quantities of such as are
prescribed by the London Physicians, and others, are
proportioned. Also Directions for Making Compound-Waters,
Syrups Simple and Compound, Electuaries, Pills, Powders, and
other Sorts of Medicines. Moreover, The Gums, Balsams, Oyls,
Juices, and the like, which are sold by Apothecaries and
Druggists, are added to this Herbal; and their Virtues and
Uses are fully described. By John Pechey, Of the College of
Physicians, in London. Printed for Henry Bonwicke, at the
Red Lyon in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1694.

_William Salmon._

1710. Botanologia. The English Herbal: or History of Plants.
Containing I. Their Names, Greek, Latine and English. II.
Their Species, or various Kinds. III. Their Descriptions.
IV. Their Places of Growth. V. Their Times of Flowering and
Seeding. VI. Their Qualities or Properties. VII. Their
Specifications. VIII. Their Preparations, Galenick and
Chymick. IX. Their Virtues and Uses. X. A Complete
Florilegium, of all the choice Flowers cultivated by our
Florists, interspersed through the whole Work, in their
proper Places; where you have their Culture, Choice,
Increase, and Way of Management, as well for Profit as for
Delectation. Adorned with Exquisite Icons or Figures, of the
most considerable Species, representing to the Life, the
true Forms of those Several Plants. The whole in an
Alphabetical Order. By William Salmon, M.D. London: Printed
by I. Dawks, for H. Rhodes, at the Star, the Corner of
Bride-Lane, in Fleet-Street; and J. Taylor, at the Ship in
Pater-noster-Row. M.DCC.X.

(The dedicatory epistle is to Queen Anne.)

_James Petiver._

1715. [Hortus Peruvianus Medicinalis: or, the South-Sea
herbal. Containing the names, figures, vse, &c., of divers
medicinal plants, lately discovered by Pere L. Feuillee, one
of the King of France's herbalists. To which are added, the
figures, &c., of divers American gum-trees, dying woods,
drugs, as the Jesuits bark-tree and others, much desired and
very necessary to be known by all such as now traffick to
the South-Seas or reside in those parts.]

(Undated.) Botanicum Londinense, or London Herbal. Giving
the Names, Descriptions and Virtues &c. of such Plants about
London as have been observed in the several Monthly
Herborizings made for the Use of the young Apothecaries and
others, Students in the Science of Botany or Knowledge of
Plants.

(Undated.) Botanicum Anglicum, or The English Herball:
Wherein is contained a curious Collection of Real Plants
being the true Patterns of such Trees, Shrubs and Herbs as
are observed to grow Wild in England. By which any one may
most easily attain to the Speedy and True Knowledge of them.
With an Account (affixed to each Plant) of their Names,
Places where Growing, and Times of Flourishing: As also what
Parts and Preparations, of Each Physical Plant, are most in
Use. And for the farther Instruction and Satisfaction of
such, who are Lovers of Plants, The Composer of this
Collection chose to make his chiefest References to the
General History, Catalogue and Synopsis of that Learned
Author, and most Judicious Botanist, Mr. John Ray: As also
to our Two most Esteemed English Herballs, Johnson upon
Gerard and Parkinson; and for your more speedy finding each
Plant, he hath quoted the Page, wherein you may observe its
Name, Figure or Description.

Sold by Samuel Smith at the Princes-Arms in St. Paul's
Church-yard, London.

[Undated. The Virtues of several Sovereign Plants found wild
in Maryland with Remarks on them.]

_Tournefort's Herbal._

1716. The Compleat Herbal: or, the Botanical Institutions of
Mr. Tournefort, Chief Botanist to the late French King.
Carefully translated from the original Latin. With large
Additions, from Ray, Gerard, Parkinson, and others, the most
celebrated Moderns; Containing what is further observable
upon the same Subject, together with a full and exact
Account of the Physical Virtues and Uses of the several
Plants; and a more compleat Dictionary of the Technical
Words of this Art, than ever hitherto published: Illustrated
with about five hundred Copper Plates, containing above four
thousand different Figures, all curiously engraven. A Work
highly Instructive, and of general Use.

In the Savoy: Printed by John Nutt, and Sold by J. Morphew
near Stationers-Hall, and most Booksellers in Great-Britain
and Ireland. 1716.

_Joseph Miller._

1722. Botanicum Officinale; or a Compendious Herbal: giving
an account of all such Plants as are now used in the
Practice of Physick. With their Descriptions and Virtues. By
Joseph Miller. London: Printed for E. Bell in Cornhill, J.
Senex in Fleet-Street, W. Taylor in Pater-noster-Row, and J.
Osborn in Lombard-Street. M.DCC.XXII.

(The book is dedicated to Sir Hans Sloane.)

_Patrick Blair._

1723. Pharmaco-Botanologia: or, An Alphabetical and
Classical Dissertation on all the British Indigenous and
Garden Plants of the New London Dispensatory. In which Their
Genera, Species, Characteristick and Distinctive Notes are
Methodically described; the Botanical Terms of Art
explained; their Virtues, Uses, and Shop-Preparations
declared. With many curious and useful Remarks from proper
Observation. By Patrick Blair, M.D., of Boston in
Lincolnshire and Fellow of the Royal Society. London:
Printed for G. Strahan at the Golden Ball over-against the
Royal Exchange in Cornhill; W. and J. Innys at the West End
of St. Paul's Church-yard; and W. Mears at the Lamb, without
Temple Bar. MDCCXXIII.

_Elizabeth Blackwell._

1737. A Curious Herbal, Containing Five Hundred Cuts, of the
most useful Plants, which are now used in the Practice of
Physick. Engraved on folio Copper Plates, after Drawings,
taken from the Life. By Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is
added a short Description of y{e} Plants; and their common
Uses in Physick. London. Printed for Samuel Harding in St.
Martin's Lane. MDCCXXXVII.

1757. Herbarium Blackwellianvm Emendatvm et Anetivm id est
Elisabethæ Blackwell Collectio Stirpium Qvæ in
Pharmacopoliis ad Medicvm vsvm asservantvr Qvarvm Descriptio
et Vires ex Anglico idiomate in Latinvm conversæsistvntvr
figuræ maximam partem ad naturale Exemplar emendantvr floris
frvctvsqve partivm repræsentatione avgentvr et Probatis
Botanicorvm nominibvs cum præfatione Tit. Pl. D.D.
Christoph. Iacobi Trew. Excvdit figvras pinxit atqve in æs
incidit Nicolavs-Fridericvs Eisenbergervs sereniss. Dvcis
Saxo-Hildbvrg. Pictor avlicvs Norimbergæ Degens. Norim bergæ
Typis Christiani de Lavnoy Anno MDCCLVII.

_Thomas Short._

1747. Medicina Britannica: or a Treatise on such Physical
Plants, as are Generally to be found in the Fields or
Gardens in Great-Britain: Containing A particular Account of
their Nature, Virtues, and Uses. Together with The
Observations of the most learned Physicians, as well ancient
as modern, communicated to the late ingenious Mr. Ray, and
the learned Dr. Sim. Pauli. Adapted more especially to the
Occasions of those, whose Condition or Situation of Life
deprives them, in a great Measure, of the Helps of the
Learned. By Tho. Short of Sheffield, M.D. London. Printed
for R. Manby & H. Shute Cox, opposite the Old Baily on
Ludgate-Hill. MDCCXLVII.

1748. [A complete History of Drugs. Written in French By
Monsieur Pomet, Chief Druggist to the late French King Lewis
XIV. To which is added what is farther observable on the
same Subject, from Mess Lemery and Tournefort, Divided into
Three Classes, Vegetable, Animal, and Mineral; With their
Use in Physic, Chemistry, Pharmacy, and several other Arts.
Illustrated with above Four Hundred Copper-Cuts, curiously
done from the Life; and an Explanation of their different
Names, Places of Growth, and Countries where they are
produced; with the Methods of distinguishing the Genuine and
Perfect, from the Adulterated, Sophisticated and Decayed;
together with their Virtues, &c. A Work of very great Use
and Curiosity. Done into English from the Originals. London.
Printed for J. and J. Bonwicke, S. Birt, W. Parker, C.
Hitch, and E. Wicksteed. MDCCXLVIII.]

(The above is dedicated to Sir Hans Sloane.)

_James Newton._

1752. A compleat Herbal of the late James Newton, M.D.,
Containing the Prints and the English Names of several
thousand Trees, Plants, Shrubs, Flowers, Exotics, etc. All
curiously engraved on Copper-Plates. London: Printed by E.
Cave at S. John's Gate; and sold by Mr. Watson, an
Apothecary, over-against St. Martin's Church, in the Strand;
Mr. Parker, at Oxford; Mr. Sandby, at the Ship, in
Fleet-street. M,DCC,LII.

_"Sir" John Hill._

1755. 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. Also directions for the gathering and preserving
roots, herbs, flowers, and seeds; the various methods of
preserving these simples for present use; receipts for
making distilled waters, conserves, syrups, electuaries,
Juleps, draughts, &c., &c., with necessary cautions in
giving them. Intended for the use of families. By Sir John
Hill, M.D., F.R.A. of Sciences at Bourdeaux.

Subsequent editions, 1812, 1820.

1756. The British Herbal; An History of Plants and Trees,
Natives of Britain, cultivated for use, or raised for
beauty. By John Hill, M.D. London. Printed for T. Osborne
and J. Shipton, in Grays-Inn; J. Hodges, near London-Bridge;
J. Newbery in S. Paul's Church-Yard; B. Collins; And S.
Crowder and H. Woodgate, in Pater-noster-Row. MDCCLVI.

1769. Herbarium Britannicum Exhibens Plantas Britanniæ
Indigenas secundum Methodum floralem novam digestas. Cum
Historia, Descriptione, Characteribus Specificis, Viribus,
et Usis. Auctore Johanne Hill, Medicinæ Doctore, Academiæ
Imperialis Naturæ Curiosorum Dioscoride quarto, &c. Londini:
Sumptibus auctoris. Prostant apud Baldwin, Ridley, Nourse,
Becket, Davies, Cambell, Elmsly Bibliopolis. MDCCLXIX.

_Timothy Sheldrake._

1759 (_circ._). Botanicum Medicinale; An Herbal of Medicinal
Plants on the College of Physicians List. Describing their
Places of Growth, Roots, Bark, Leaves, Buds, Time of
Flowering, Blossoms, Flowers, Stiles, Chives, Embrio's,
Fruits, Farina, Colours, Seeds, Kernels, Seed-Vessels, Parts
used in Medicine, Preparations in the Shops, Medicinal
Virtues, Names in Nine Languages. Most beautifully engraved
on 120 Large Folio Copper-Plates, From the Exquisite
Drawings of the late Ingenious T. Sheldrake. English Plants
are drawn from Nature to the greatest Accuracy, Flowers, or
Parts, too small to be distinguished, are magnified. Nothing
in any Language exceeds this Thirty Years laborious Work, of
which may truly be said that Nature only equals it, every
Thing of the Kind, hitherto attempted, being trivial,
compared to this inimitable Performance. Designed to promote
Botanical Knowledge, prevent Mistakes in the Use of Simples
in compounding and preparing Medicines, to illustrate, and
render such Herbals as want the Just Representations in
their proper Figures and Colour more useful. Necessary to
such as practise Physic, Pharmacy, Chemistry, &c.,
entertaining to the Curious, the Divine and Philosopher, in
contemplating these wonderful Productions,--useful to
Painters, Heralds, Carvers, Designers, Gardeners, etc. The
Colours of every part are minutely described; for Utility it
must be esteemed to any Hortus Siccus extant. The Means to
preserve Fruits, or to dry Flowers, in their Native Form and
Colour are not yet discovered; Plants cannot be preserved
to Perfection. The Flowers, when coloured, are represented
in their original Bloom, and Fruits in the inviting Charms
of Maturity. To which is now added His Tables for finding
the Heat and Cold in all Climates, that Exotic Plants may be
raised in Summer, and preserved in Winter. London. Printed
for J. Millan, opposite the Admiralty, Whitehall.

_John Edwards._

1770. The British Herbal containing one hundred Plates of
the most beautiful and scarce Flowers and useful Medicinal
Plants which blow in the open Air of Great Britain,
accurately coloured from Nature, with their Botanical
Characters, and A short account of their Cultivation, etc.,
etc. By John Edwards. London: Printed for the Author; and
sold by J. Edmonson, Painter to Her Majesty in Warwick
Street, Golden Square; and J. Walter at Homer's Head,
Charing-Cross. MDCCLXX.

1775. A select Collection of One Hundred Plates; consisting
of the most beautiful exotic and British Flowers which blow
in our English Gardens, accurately drawn and Coloured from
Nature, with their Botanic Characters, and a short account
of their Cultivation, Their uses in Medicine, with Their
Latin and English Names. By John Edwards. London: Printed
for S. Hooper, No. 25 Ludgate-Hill. M.DCC.LXXV.

_William Meyrick._

1789. The New Family Herbal; or Domestic Physician:
Enumerating with accurate Descriptions, All the known
Vegetables which are any way remarkable for medical
efficacy; with an account of their Virtues in the Several
Diseases incident to the Human Frame. Illustrated with
figures of the most remarkable plants, accurately delineated
and engraved. By William Meyrick, Surgeon. Birmingham,
Printed by Pearson and Rollason, and Sold by R. Baldwin,
Pater-noster Row London. MDCCLXXXIX.

1790. Second edition--Title, etc., identical with above.

_Henry Barham._

1794. Hortus Americanus: Containing an account of the Trees,
Shrubs, and other Vegetable Productions, of South-America
and the West India Islands, and particularly of the Island
of Jamaica; Interspersed with many curious and useful
Observations, respecting their Uses in Medicine, Diet, and
Mechanics. By the late Dr. Henry Barham. To which are added
a Linnæan Index, etc., etc., etc. Kingston, Jamaica: printed
and published by Alexander Arkman, Printer to the King's
most Excellent Majesty, and to the Honourable House of
Assembly. MDCCXCIV.

_Robert John Thornton._

1810. A Family Herbal: a Familiar Account of the Medical
Properties of British and Foreign Plants, also their uses in
dying, and the various Arts, arranged according to the
Linnæan System, and illustrated by two hundred and
fifty-eight engravings from plants drawn from Nature by
Henderson, and engraved by Bewick of Newcastle. By Robert
John Thornton, M.D., Member of the University of Cambridge,
and of the Royal London College of Physicians; Lecturer on
Botany at Guy's Hospital; Author of a Grammar of Botany, the
Philosophy of Medicine, etc. London: Printed for B. & R.
Crosby and Co., Stationer's Court, Ludgate Street.

1814. Second edition.

_Jonathan Stokes._

1812. A Botanical Materia Medica, Consisting of the Generic
and Specific Characters of the Plants used in Medicine and
Diet, with Synonyms, And references to Medical authors, By
Jonathan Stokes, M.D. In Four volumes. London, Printed for
J. Johnson and Co. St. Paul's Churchyard. 1812.

_Thomas Green._

1816. The Universal Herbal; or, Botanical, Medical, and
Agricultural Dictionary. Containing an account of All the
known plants in the World, arranged according to the Linnean
System. Specifying the uses to which they are or may be
applied, whether as Food, as Medicine, or in the Arts and
Manufactures. With the best methods of Propagation, and the
most recent agricultural improvements. Collected from
indisputable Authorities. Adapted to the use of the
Farmer--the Gardener--the Husbandman--the Botanist--the
Florist--and Country Housekeepers in General. By Thomas
Green. Liverpool. Printed at the Caxton Press by Henry
Fisher, Printer in Ordinary to His Majesty. Sold at 87,
Bartholomew Close, London.

1824. Second edition.

_John Lindley._

1838. Flora Medica; A Botanical Account of all the more
important plants used in Medicine, in different parts of the
world. By John Lindley, Ph.D., F.R.S., Professor of Botany
in University College, London; Vice-Secretary of the
Horticultural Society, etc. etc. etc. London: Printed for
Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row.
1838.

* * * * *

The majority of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century
gardening books devote considerable space to herbs. See
especially:--

1563. Thomas Hill. The proffitable Arte of Gardening.

1594. Sir Hugh Platt. The Garden of Eden.

1617. Gervase Markham. The Country Housewife's Garden.

1618. William Lawson. A new Orchard and Garden with the
Country Housewife's Garden.

III

FOREIGN HERBALS

(Printed books)

This list includes only the chief works, and those which have some connection with the history of the herbal in England. With the exception of the _Arbolayre_, copies of all the incunabula herbals mentioned below are to be found in the British Museum. Copies in American libraries are noted in the list.

_Bartholomæus Anglicus._

1470. Bartholomæus Anglicus. Liber de proprietatibus rerum.
Printed at Basle with the type used by both Richel and
Wensler.

1470(?) Liber de proprietatibus rerum Bartholomei Anglici.
Printed at Cologne by Ulrich Zell.

Subsequent editions, 1480, 1481, 1482, 1483, 1485, 1488,
1491, 1492, 1519, 1601.

(_French translation._)

(A translation was made by Fr. Jehan Corbichon in 1372 for
Charles V. of France.)

1482. Cy commence vng tres excellent liure nomme le
proprietaire des choses par Fr. Jehan Corbichon. Printed at
Lyons.

Subsequent editions printed at Lyons, 1485, 1491, 1498 (?),
1525, 1530 (?), 1539, 1556.

1485. (_Dutch translation._) Printed at Haarlem by Jacop
Bellaert.

1494. (_Spanish translation._) El libro de propietatibus
(_sic_) rerum trasladado de latin en romance por Vincente de
burgos.

1529. Another edition printed at Toledo.

_Das p[ou]ch der natur._

1475. Konrad von Megenburg. Das p[ou]ch der natur. Printed
at Augsburg by Hanns Bämler.

(There are a large number of MSS. of the above extant,
eighteen of them being in the Vienna library. Eighty-nine
herbs and their virtues are described. The woodcuts in this
book are exceptionally fine. (There is only one of plants.)
In some copies the woodcuts are coloured by a contemporary
artist, possibly Bämler himself, for he was well known as an
illuminator before he began printing. Though not strictly a
herbal, the above is included in this list, as this and
_Liber de Proprietatibus Rerum_ are the earliest printed
books containing a section on herbs.)

1478. Another edition.

1499. Another edition. Printed at Augsburg by Hanns
Schönsperger. Cuts are copies of those in the first edition,
with the addition of two others from the Strassburg Hortus
Sanitatis of _circa_ 1490.

_Albertus Magnus._

1478. Albertus Magnus. Liber aggregationis seu liber
secretorum. Alberti Magni de virtutibus herbarum animalium
et mirabilis mundi. (_Colophon_) per Johannem de Annunciata
de Augusta.

1500. Edition printed at Rouen by Thomas Laisne.

(This book claims Albertus Magnus as its author, but is
wholly unworthy of that great scholar.)

_Herbarium Apuleii Platonici._

1480 (_circ._). Incipit Herbarium Apuleii Platonici ad
Marcum Agrippam. Printed at Rome by Philippus de Lignamine,
courtier and physician to Sixtus IV. First impression
dedicated to Cardinal de Gonzaga. Second impression to
Cardinal de Ruvere. The copy in the British Museum has the
Ruvere dedication.

America: Library of Mrs. J. Montgomery Sears, Boston.

_The Latin Herbarius._

1484. Herbarius Maguntie impressus. Anno [et] CLXXXIV.
Printed at Mainz by Peter Schöffer.

(This is the book sometimes spoken of as Aggregator, but
this word was never used as the actual title in any edition.
The work is a Compilation from mediæval writers and consists
of homely herbal remedies. The figures of plants are
pleasing and decorative. The copy in the British Museum is
not perfect, but there is a perfect copy in the Kew
Library.)

America: Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.

1485. Herbarius Pataviæ impressus Anno domi [et] cetera
LXXXV. Printed at Passau by Conrad Stahel.

(This edition is sometimes known as Aggregator Patavinus.)

America: John Crerar Library, Chicago.

1486. Another edition printed at Passau.

Undated editions. There are several in the British Museum.
It is believed that one of them belonged to Sir Thomas More.

America: J. P. Morgan Library, New York.

1484. (_Flemish translation._) Flemish translation printed
by John Veldener Kiulenborg.

1500. Edition evidently a reprint of above printed by W.
Osterman at Antwerp.

America: Hawkins Collection, Annmary Brown Memorial, Providence.

(_Italian editions._)

1491. Edition printed at Vicenza by Leonard of Basel and
William of Pavia.

America: Boston Medical Library, Boston.

1499. Edition printed at Venice by Simon of Pavia.

America: Surgeon-General's Library, Washington.

1502. Edition printed at Venice by Christ. de Pensa.

1509. Edition printed at Venice by W. Rubeum et Bernardinum
Fratres Vercellenses.

1534. (_Italian translation._) Herbolario Volgare nel quale
le virtu de la herbe, etc., con alcune belle aggionte noua
m[=e]t[=e] de latino in Volgare tradulto. Printed at Venice.

Subsequent editions, 1536, 1539, 1540.

(In the Italian editions and translations the book is
erroneously attributed to Arnold de Nova Villa, whose name
is mentioned on the title-page with that of Avicenna. This
error is pointed out in the British Museum Catalogue.)

1485 (_circ._) (_French edition._) Printed at Paris by Jean
Bonhomme.

_Herbarius zu teutsch._

1485. Herbarius zu Teutsch. Printed at Mainz by Peter
Schöffer.

America: Surgeon-General's Library, Washington, and library
of Mrs. Montgomery Sears, Boston.

The illustrations in this herbal are evidently drawn from
nature, and are generally held to be only surpassed by those
in the herbals of Brunfels and Fuchs. The preface is
singularly beautiful. Though the preface enjoins the name
"Ortus Sanitatis, in German, a Garden of Health," the title
in this and subsequent editions is Herbarius zu teutsch.

1485 (a few months later than the above). Pirated edition
printed at Augsburg, probably by Schönsperger. It is
interesting to note that in this edition a pine cone, the
badge of Augsburg, appears on the title-page. Figures of
plants are very inferior to those in the first edition.

1486. Edition printed at Augsburg by Schönsperger.

Subsequent editions, 1487 (?), 1488, 1493, 1496, 1499, 1502.
There are several undated editions.

America: Copy of edition printed in 1493 in Library of the
College of Physicians, Philadelphia.

_Arbolayre._

1485 (_circ._) Arbolayre conten[=a]t la qualitey et virtus
proprietey des herbes gômes et sim[=e]ces extraite de
plusiers tratiers de medicine co[=m]ent davicene de rasis de
constatin de ysaac et plateaire selon le co[=n]u usaige bien
correct.

(Supposed to have been printed by M. Husz at Lyons. It is
believed that there are now only two copies of this book
extant. One is in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. The
other was sold in London, March 23, 1898.)

_Le Grand Herbier._

Before 1526. Le Grand Herbier en Francoys, contenant les
qualites vertus et proprietes des herbes, arbres gommes.
Printed at Paris by Pierre Sergent.

_Ortus Sanitatis._

1491. Ortus Sanitatis. Printed at Mainz by Jacob Meydenbach.

(This is often regarded as a Latin translation of the
Herbarius zu teutsch, but it is much larger and owes very
little to that work. The woodcuts are copied from the
Herbarius zu teutsch, but they are inferior.)

America: Surgeon-General's Library, Washington; John Crerar
Library, Chicago; Arnold Arboretum, Boston; Mrs. J.
Montgomery Sears Library, Boston; and J. P. Morgan Library,
New York.

1511. Edition printed at Venice.

There are several undated editions.

America: Library of Congress, Washington; Arnold Arboretum,
Boston; Surgeon-General's Library, Washington; Dr. G. F.
Kunz's Library, New York.

1500 (_circ._) (_French translation._) Ortus Sanitatis
translaté de Latin en francois. Printed at Paris by A.
Vérard.

(The copy in the British Museum belonged to Henry VII.)

1539 (?) Edition printed at Paris by Philippe le Noir with
the title "Le Jardin de Sante translate de latin en francoys
nouvellement Imprime a Paris. On les vend a Paris en la rue
sainct Jacques a lenseigne de la Rose blanche couronnee.
(_Colophon_) Imprime a Paris par Philippe le noir."

_Aemilius Macer._

1491 (?). Macer floridus De viribus herbarum. Printed at
Paris.

1500 (?). Another edition. (Paris?)

1506. Herbarum varias [qui] vis cognoscere vires Macer
adest: disce quo duca doct'eris. (_Colophon_) Impressus
Parisius per magistrum Johannem Ieune. Pro Magistro Petro
Bacquelier. 1506.

1588. (_French translation._) Les fleurs du livre des vertus
des herbes, composé jadis en vers Latins par Macer Floride.
Le tout mis en François par M. Lucas Tremblay, Parisien ...
Rouen.

_Jerome of Brunswick._

1500. Liber de arte distillandi de Simplicibus. Johannes
Grüeninger, Strassburg. 1500.

(_English translation._) See Bibliography of English
Herbals.

_Johann Czerny._

1517. Kineha lekarska kteraz slowe herbarz. Hieronymous
Höltzel. Nürnberg. 1517.

_Otto von Brunfels._

1530. Herbarum vivæ eicones ad nature imitationem, su[=m]a
cum diligentia et artificis effigiate.... Argentorati apud
Ioannem Schottum.

Subsequent editions, 1530, 1531, 1532, 1536, 1537.

(The illustrations in this herbal are much superior to the
text, which is based chiefly on the writings of the Italian
herbalists. Brunfels was a Carthusian monk who turned
Protestant. Jacob Theodor (Tabernæmontanus) was a pupil of
Brunfels.)

_Eucharius Rhodion._

1533. Kreutterb[ou]ch von allem Erdtgewachs Anfenglich von
Doctor Johan Cuba zusamen bracht Jetzt widerum new
Corrigert.... Mit warer Abconterfeitung aller Kreuter.... Zu
Franckfurt am Meyn, Bei Christian Egenolph. 1533.

(The above was not an original work, but merely a revised
and improved edition of the German Herbarius. The
illustrations are copies of those in Brunfels's herbal.)

_Iean Ruel._

1536. De Nature stirpium libri tres, Ioanne Ruellio
authore.... Parisiis Ex officina Simonis Colinæi. 1536.

(Jean Ruel was a physician and a professor in the University
of Paris.)

_Leonhard Fuchs._

1542. De historia stirpium effectis & expressis Leonharto
Fuchsio.... Basileæ, in officina Isingriniana. Anno Christi
1542.

Subsequent editions, 1546, 1547, 1549, 1551, 1555.

1543. (_German translation._) New Kreüterb[ou]ch....
Bedruckt zu Basell durch Michael Isingrin.

1557. (_Spanish translation._) Historia de yeruas y plantas
de Leonardo Fuchsio.... En Anvers por los herederos de
Arnald Byrcman.

_Conrad Gesner._

1542. Catalogus plantarum.... Authore Conrado Gesnero....
Tiguri apud Christoph Froschouerum.

(Gesner's most important work--a general history of
plants--was never published, for he died of plague before it
was finished. The illustrations he had collected were
published by Christopher Jacob Trew 150 years later.)

_Hieronymus Bock._

1546. Kreuter B[ou]ch. Darin Underscheid Würckung und Namen
der Kreuter so in Deutschen Landen Wachsen. Wendel Ribel.
Strasburg.

Subsequent editions, 1539, 1560, 1572, 1577, 1595, 1630.

(The first edition (1539) has no illustrations. The
illustrations in the second edition (1546) are generally
supposed to have been copied from Fuchs's Herbal (1542), but
many of them are original. Bock's Herbal is remarkable for
the accurate descriptions of the plants.)

_Rembert Dodoens._

1554. Kruydeboeck.... Rembert Dodoens Medecijn van der stadt
van Mechelen. Ghedruckt Tantwerpen by Jan vander Loe.

Subsequent editions, 1563, 1603, 1608, 1618.

1557. (_French translation._) Histoire des plantes....
Nouvellement traduite de bas Aleman en François par Charles
de l'Escluse. En Anvers De l'Imprimerie de Jean Loë.

1578. (_English translation._) See Henry Lyte in
Bibliography of English Herbals.

1566. Frumentorum, leguminum, palustrium et aquatilium
herbarum aceorum quæ eo pertinent, historia.... Antverpiæ Ex
officina Christophori Plantini.

Second edition, 1569.

1568. Florum et Coronarium odoratarumque nonnullarum
herbarum historia.... Antverpiæ Ex officina Christophori
Plantini.

1583. Remberti Dodonæi mechliniensis medici Cæsarei.
Stirpium historiæ pemptades sex sive libri xxx.... Antverpiæ
Ex officina Christophori Plantini.

Second edition, 1616.

_Pierandrea Mattioli._

1563. Neuw Kreüterbuch ... von dem Hochgelerten und
weitberümbten Herrn Doctor Petro Andrea Matthiolo....
Gedruckt zu Prag durch Georgen Delantrich von Auentin.

Subsequent editions ("gemehret unnd verfertigt Durch
Joachimum Camerarium"), 1590, 1600.

_Antoine Mizauld._

1565. Alexikepus, seu auxiliaris hortus.... Lutetiæ Apud
Federicum Morellum.

1575. (_German translation._) Artztgartem ... neuwlich
verteutschet durch Georgen Benisch von Bartfeld ... zu Basel
bey Peter Perna.

_Nicolas Monardes._

1569. Dos libros, el veno que trat a de tod as las cosas que
traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales.... Impressos en
Sevilla en casa de Hernando Diaz, en la calle de la Sierpe.

1571. Segunda parte del libro de las cosas que se traen de
nuestras Indias Occidentales. Sevilla en casa Alonso
Escriuano, Impressor.

1574. Primeray segunda y tercera partes de la Historia
medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias
Occidentales en Medicina.... En Sevilla. En casa de Alonso
Escriuano.

Second edition, 1580.

1574. (_Latin translation._) De simplicibus medicamentis ex
occidentali India delatis quorum in medicina usus est....
Interprete Carolo Clusio Atrebate. Antverpiæ Ex officina
Christophori Plantini. Subsequent editions, 1579, 1582,
1605.

1576. (_Italian translation._) Due Libri Dell' Historia de I
Semplici, Aromati, et altre cose, che Vengono portate dall'
Indie Orientali, di Don Garzia Dall' Horto ... et due Altri
libri parimente di quelle che si portano dall' Indie
Occidentali, di Nicolo Monardes, Hora tutti tradotti dalle
loro lingue nella nostra Italiana da M. Annibale
Briganti.... In Venetia.

Subsequent editions, 1582, 1589, 1605, 1616.

1600. (_Flemish translation._) Beschriivinge van het
heerlijcke ende vermaerde Kruydt wassende in de West Indien
aldaer ghenaemt Picielt, ende by den Spaenaerden Tabaco, en
van desselv[=e] wonderlijcke operatien e[=n] Krachtengemaert
by D. Monardes Medecijn dez stede Sivillen e[=n] overgheset
Door Nicolaes Iansz vander Woudt. Tot Rotterdam, By Jan van
Waesberghe.

(The title-page has a charming illustration of a little
Indian boy smoking a long carved pipe, and a figure of the
tobacco-plant.)

1619. (_French translation._) Histoire des Drogues.... La
seconde composée de deux liures de maistre Nicolas Monard,
traictant de ce qui nous est apporté de l'Amerique. Le tout
fidellement translaté en François par Antoine Colin, maistre
Apoticaire juré de la ville de Lyon.... A Lyon, au despens
de Iean Pillehotte, à l'enseigne du nom de Iesus.

(_English translation._) See John Frampton in Bibliography
of English Herbals.

1895. (_German translation of the 1579 Edition._) Die
Schrift des Monardes über die Arzneimittel Americas nach der
lateinischen Übertragung des Clusius aus dem Jahre 1579.
Übersetzt und erläubert von Kurt Stünzner, Dr. med. Mit
einem Vorwort von Prof. Dr. Erich Harnack in Halle a S.

_Bombast von Hohenheim_ (Paracelsus).

1570. [Ettliche Tractatus des hocherfarnen unnd berumbtesten
Philippi Theophrasti Paracelsi.... I. Von Natürlichen
dingen. II. Beschreibung etlichen Kreütter. III. Von
Metallen. IV. Von Mineralen. V. Von Edlen Gesteinen.
Strassburg. Christian Müllers Erben.]

(The "doctrine of signatures" is usually associated with the
name of Paracelsus, but the greatest exponent of this theory
was Giambattista Porta.)

_Nicolaus Winckler._

1571. Chronica herbarum, florum seminum.... Authore Nicolao
Wincklero, Forchemio, Medico Halæ.... Augustæ Vindelicorum
in officina Typographica Michaëlis Mangeri.

(The above is an astrological calendar giving the times when
herbs should be gathered.)

_Bartholomaus Carrichter._

1575. Kreutterb[ou]ch des edlen v[=n] Hochgelehrten Herzen
Doctoris Bartholomei Carrichters von Reckingen.... Gedruckt
z[ou] Strassburg an Kornmarck bey Christian Müller.

Subsequent editions, 1577, 1589, 1597, 1615, 1618, 1619,
1625, 1652, 1673, 1739.

(In this Herbal every plant is assigned to one of the signs
of the zodiac.)

_Charles de l'Escluse._

1576. Caroli Clusii atrebat. Rariorum aliquot stirpium per
Hispanias obseruatarum historia, Libris duobus expressa....
Antverpiæ, Ex officina Christophori Plantini.

1583. Caroli Clusii atrebatis. Rariorum aliquot Stirpium,
per Pannoniam, Austriam & vicinas quasdam Prouincias
obseruatarum Historia, Quatuor Libris Expressa: ...
Antverpiæ, Ex officina Christophori Plantini.

1601. Caroli Clusii Atrebatis.... Rariorum Plantarum
Historica.... Antverpiæ Ex officina Plantiniana Apud Joannem
Moretum.

(A republication of the two works cited above with some
additional matter.)

For De simplicibus medicamentes ex occidentali India, see N.
Monardes.

_Mathias de L'Obel._

1576. Plantarum seu stirpium icones. Antverpiæ Ex officina
Christophori Plantini.

1581. (_Flemish translation._) Kruydtboeck.... Deur Matthias
de L'Obel Medecyn der Princ' exc{en}. T'Antwerpen. By
Christoffel Plantyn.

(The Flemish translation is dedicated to William of Orange
and the Burgomasters of Antwerp.)

_Leonhardt Thurneisser zum Thurn._

1578. Historia sive descriptio plantarum.... Berlini
Excudebat Michael Hentzke.

Second edition, 1587.... Coloniæ Agrippinæ apud Joannem
Gymnicum.

1578. (_German translation._) Historia unnd Beschreibung
Influentischer Elementischer und Natürlicher Wirckungen,
Aller fremden unnd Heimischen Erdgewechssen ... Gedruckt zu
Berlin, bey Michael Hentzsken.

(Thurneisser was one of the foremost exponents of
astrological botany. He gives astrological diagrams showing
when the various herbs should be picked. The illustrations
are not particularly good, but they are attractive owing to
the quaint ornamental border which surrounds each figure.)

_Andrea Cesalpino._

1583. De plantis libri xvi. Florentiæ Apud Georgium
Marescottum.

_Geofroy Linocier._

1584. L'histoire des plantes traduicte de latin en françois:
... à Paris Chez Charles Macé.

(The above is based chiefly on the works of Fuchs and
Mattioli.)

_Castor Durante._

1585. Herbario nuovo di Castore Durante, medico et cittadino
romano.... In Roma. Per Iacomo Bericchia & Iacomo Tormerij.

Subsequent editions, 1602, 1617, 1636, 1667, 1684.

1609. Hortulis Sanitatis. Das ist ein heylsam[es] vnd
nützliches Gährtlin der Gesundheit.... Erstlich von Castore
Durante ... in Italianischer Sprach verfertigt. Nunmehr aber
in unsere hoch Teutsche Sprach versetzt, Durch Petrum
Uffenbachium Getruckt zu Franckfort am Mayn durch Nicolaum
Hoffman.

(It is uncertain whether this is a translation of Herbario
nuovo. See Meyer, _Gesch._, IV. p. 383.)

_Jacques d'Aléchamps._

1586-1587. Historia generalis plantarum ... Lugduni, apud
Gulielmum Rovillium.

_Joachim Camerarius._

1588. Hortus medicus et philosophicus.... Francofurte ad
M[oe]num.

_Giambattista Porta._

1588. Phytognomonica.... Neapoli Apud Horatium Saluianum.

_Jacob Theodor_ (Tabernæmontanus).

1588. Neuw Kreuterbuch.... [Nicolaus Bassæus] Franckfurt am
Mayn.

1590. Eicones plantarum seu stirpium. Nicolaus Bassæus,
Francofurte ad M[oe]num.

1613. Neuw Vollkommentlich Kreuterbuch ... gemehret Durch
Casparum Bauhinum.... Franckfurt am Mayn, Durch Nicolaum
Hoffman. In verlegung Johannis Bassæi und Johann Dreutels.

Subsequent editions, 1625, 1664, 1687, 1731.

_Fabio Colonna._

1592. +PHYTOBASANOS+ sive plantarum aliquot historia.... Ex
officina Horatii Saluiana. Neapoli. Apud Io Jacobum Carlinum
& Antonium Pacem.

(This Herbal is the first in which copper-plate etchings
were used as illustrations.)

_Adam Zaluziansky von Zaluzian._

1592. Methodi herbariæ, libri tres. Pragæ, in officina
Georgii Dacziceni.

_Gaspard Bauhin._

1596. +PHYTOPINAX+ seu enumeratio plantarum ab Herbarijs
nostro seculo descriptarum, cum earum differentijs....
Basileæ per Sebastianum Henric petri.

1601. Animadversiones in historiam generalem plantarum
Lugduni editam.... Francoforti Excudebat Melchior Hartmann,
Impensis Nicolai Bassæi.

1620. +PRODROMOS+ Theatri Botanici.... Francofurti ad
M[oe]num, Typis Pauli Jacobi, impensis Ioannis Treudelii.

Second edition, 1671.

1623. +PINAX+ Theatri Botanici.... Basileæ Helvet. Sumptibus
et typis Ludovici Regis.

1658. Caspari Bauhini ... Theatri Botanici sive Historiæ
Plantarum.... Liber primus editus opera et cura Io Casp
Bauhini. Basileæ. Apud Joannem König.

_Claude Duret._

1605. Histoire admirable des plantes et herbes
esmeruillables & miraculeuses en nature.... A Paris Chez,
Nicolas Buon demeurant au Mont S. Hylaire à l'image S.
Claude.

_Jean Bauhin and J. H. Cherlerus._

1619. J. B.... et J. H. C.... historiæ plantarum generalis
... prodromus ... Ebroduni, Ex Typographia Societatis
Caldorianæ.

1650-51. Historia plantarum universalis. Auctoribus Johanne
Bauhino, Archiatro. Joh. Henrico Cherlero Doctore:
Basiliensibus Quam recensuit et auxit Dominicus Chabræus. D.
Genevensis Juris vero publici fecit. Fr. Lud. a
Graffenried.... Ebroduni.

_Johann Poppe._

1625. Kräuter Buch ... Leipzig, In Verlegung Zachariæ
Schürers und Matthiæ Götzen.

_Guy de la Brosse._

1628. De la nature, vertu et utilité des plantes. Divisé en
cinq livres.... Par Guy de la Brosse, Conseiler & Medecin
ordinaire du Roy. A Paris Ches Rollin Barragnes, au second
pillier de la grand' Salle du Pallais.

(This Herbal is dedicated to Cardinal Richelieu. It is the
only Herbal with mottoes on the title-page--"Chasque chose a
son ciel et ses astres"; "En vain la medicine sans les
plantes"; "De l'Esperance la connaisance.")

_Antonio Donati._

1631. Trallato de semplici ... in Venetia ... Appresso
Pietro Maria Bertano.

_Petrus Nylandt._

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