CULPEPPER Nicholas - The English Physician enlarged. with Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines made of English Herbs that were not in any Impression until this. BRIGHT COPY IN PERIOD CALFPrinted for the Booksellers,, 1799. 12mo., neat contemporary signature on front paste-down, some light and intermittent age-staining to text, title and first two leaves of Table open awkwardly; contemporary mottled calf, sometime rebacked in calf to style, backstrip with black leather label lettered and tooled in gilt, boards rubbed at edges and corners else a bright, clean copy. Bright copy of the most famous herbal in English, first published in 1652 and commonly known as 'Culpeper's Herbal'. In the following year the author altered the format of his work, apparently to differentiate it from the two well-known piracies issued by Bentley immediately after first publication. VERY SCARCE. Henrey 102. EUR 360.00 [Appr.: US$ 389.19 | £UK 307 | JP¥ 61134] Book number 45422is offered by:
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