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Title

Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal : to which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind : to which are annexed, rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature: forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic : beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants, and a set of anatomical figures : illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / by E. Sibly.

Author

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.

Publication

London : Printed for the author, and sold at the British Directory Office, Ave-Maria-Lane, and by Champante and Whitrow, Jewry-Street, Aldgate, [179-]

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Additional Authors

• Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800.
• Dodd, Daniel, active 1761-1780.
• Prattent, T., active 18th century.
• Pass, J., active 18th century.

Description

2 v. (xvi, 398, 256 p., [3], 40 leaves of plates) : ill. (some col.), port.; 28 cm. (4to)

Alternative Title

• English physician, and complete herbal.
• Culpeper's English physician, and family dispensatory.

Subjects

• Herbals > Early works to 1800
• Herbs > Therapeutic use > Early works to 1800
• Tobacco in art > Early works to 1800
• Tobacco > Therapeutic use > Early works to 1800
• Newcastle, Dukes of > Provenance
• Botany, Medical > Early works to 1800
• Materia medica, Vegetable > Early works to 1800

Note

• Running title, v. [1]: Culpeper's English physician, and complete herbal. Vol. [2]: Culpeper's English physician, and family dispensatory.
• Vol. [2] issued without t.p.
• Dedication dated "In the year of Masonry 5798" (i.e. 1798 or 1794).
• Enlarged ed., first published 1790, of the work originally published 1652 under title: The English physitian. For detailed description of 1790 ed. cf. Hunt botanical cat., 711.
• Originally issued in 42 parts.
• Signatures: v. [1]: pi² a-c² B-E² G-5K² ²B-3T²; v. [2]: B-3T².
• Illustrations: 1 print : engraving, stipple engraving ; full-page. Signed J. Pass sculp. Subject: Port. of Culpeper. -- 29 prints : etching, engraving, hand col. ; full-page. Numbered 1-29 (not in order as inserted); each with 12-28 figs. depicting medicinal plants. -- 13 prints : engraving, stipple engraving, mezzotint, sanguine ; full-page. First 2 not numbered, others numbered 30-40. Subject: Human anatomy. Some signed Dodd delin., Prattent sculp.
• "Tobacco, English and Indian": p. 366. Ill. of tobacco plant: print no. 24, opposite p. 362.
• Includes indexes.

Indexed In (note)

• BM (Nat. hist.)
• Wellcome cat. of printed books
• Yale. Cushing

Call Number

Arents 95-38

OCLC

NYPG95-B578

Author

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.

Title

Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal : to which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind : to which are annexed, rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature: forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic : beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants, and a set of anatomical figures : illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory / by E. Sibly.

Imprint

London : Printed for the author, and sold at the British Directory Office, Ave-Maria-Lane, and by Champante and Whitrow, Jewry-Street, Aldgate, [179-]

Indexed In:

BM (Nat. hist.), VI, p. 242

Wellcome cat. of printed books, II, p. 416

Yale. Cushing, C595

Local Note

Binding: Contemporary tan tree calf, gilt, with armorial superexlibris (Pelham-Clinton, Duke of Newcastle, KG; probably Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, the 2nd Duke, or Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, the 4th Duke).

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Local Subject

Newcastle, Dukes of Provenance.

Added Author

Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800.

Dodd, Daniel, active 1761-1780. Illustrator

Prattent, T., active 18th century. Engraver

Pass, J., active 18th century. Engraver

Added Title

English physician, and complete herbal.

Culpeper's English physician, and family dispensatory.

Research Call Number

Arents 95-38 Arents copy bound in 1 v.