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Very good copy of the rare first edition of John Hill's famous herbal with contemporary hand colour.
With engraved allegorical frontispiece showing Health receiving tribute from Asia, Africa and America by Samuel Wale engraved by Henry Roberts, engraved coat of arms of the Duke of Northumberland on dedication, and 75 engraved botanical plates all finely coloured in a contemporary 18th-century hand.
The 75 plates show approximately 1,500 species of plants, flowers, herbs, vegetables, fruits, ferns, mushrooms, both native to Britain and foreign, all in distinctive 18th-century colour.
Plates drawn and engraved by Boyce, C. Edwards & Matthew Darly, Henry Roberts, R. Benning, etc.
Title page printed in red and black with allegorical vignette of Aesculapius and Flora gathering from the Lap of Nature by Samuel Wale, engraved by Charles Grignion.
Sir John Hill (1714–1775) was an English composer, actor, author and botanist. He contributed to contemporary periodicals and engaged in literary battles with… Read More

Very good- copy of the first edition of this early classic of homeopathy.Two volumes bound in one, but missing the first six plates and 44 pages of text (never bound in).With 60 (of 66) hand-coloured lithographs by Edward Hamilton, Henry Sowerby, A.M. Traice, Charlotte Caroline Sowerby, L.W., A.W., M.D. and A.E.Green watermarked silk binding in need of some TLC.Edward Hamilton (1815-1903) was an English physician and early exponent of homeopathy. Along with the first British homeopathic physician Frederic Hervey Foster Quin, he played a role in the founding of the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1851. Henry Sowerby (1825-1891) was an artist and lithographer, grandson of botanical artist James Sowerby. From 1854, he worked as a gold miner, mining engineer and art tutor in Australia.Charlotte Caroline Sowerby (1820-1865) was a British artist and granddaughter of botanical artist James Sowerby. She also worked on Henderson's Illustrated Bouquet (1857-1864).Green watermarked silk binding coming loose… Read More

Very good copy of the complete first edition of this classic of Enlightenment medical botany
Seven volumes in eight, edited by Francois-Pierre Chaumeton, Jean-Louis Marie Poiret and Jean-Baptiste de Chamberet.
With 425 hand-coloured stipple engravings by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin and Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke
Engraved by Lambert Jr., Boutelou, Mme. Benoit, Bignant, Mlle. Coignet, Mlle. Cornu, Dien, Dubois, Forget, Gautier, Giraud, Goulot, Guyard, Mlle. Louvier, Massard, Phelipeau, Plee, Poulet, Rebel and Victor.
Francois-Pierre Chaumeton (1775-1819) was a French physician and botanist. While working as a military surgeon with the French Army, he studied botany at Strasbourg in 1805 and later moved to Paris to continue his work as a botanical writer and editor.
Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840) was one of the greatest botanical artists of the Napoleonic era, along with Redoute and Bessa. When serving in the French army in Haiti in 1794, Turpin met botanist Pierre Antoine Poiteau and switched… Read More

Very good copy of the first four volumes of the second edition of this classic of Enlightenment medical botany
4 volumes edited by Francois-Pierre Chaumeton, Jean-Louis Marie Poiret and Jean-Baptiste de Chamberet.
With 339 (of 360) hand-coloured stipple engravings by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin and Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke
Engraved by Lambert Jr., Boutelou, Mme. Benoit, Bignant, Mlle. Coignet, Mlle. Cornu, Dien, Dubois, Forget, Gautier, Giraud, Goulot, Guyard, Mlle. Louvier, Massard, Phelipeau, Plee, Poulet, Rebel and Victor.
Francois-Pierre Chaumeton (1775-1819) was a French physician and botanist. While working as a military surgeon with the French Army, he studied botany at Strasbourg in 1805 and later moved to Paris to continue his work as a botanical writer and editor.
Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840) was one of the greatest botanical artists of the Napoleonic era, along with Redoute and Bessa. When serving in the French army in Haiti in 1794, Turpin met botanist Pierre Antoine Poiteau… Read More

Very good copy of four volumes of the second edition of this classic of Enlightenment medical botany
Volumes 2, 4, 5, and 6 edited by Francois-Pierre Chaumeton, Jean-Louis Marie Poiret and Jean-Baptiste de Chamberet.
With 240 (of 360) hand-coloured stipple engravings by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin and Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke
Engraved by Lambert Jr., Boutelou, Mme. Benoit, Bignant, Mlle. Coignet, Mlle. Cornu, Dien, Dubois, Forget, Gautier, Giraud, Goulot, Guyard, Mlle. Louvier, Massard, Phelipeau, Plee, Poulet, Rebel and Victor.
Francois-Pierre Chaumeton (1775-1819) was a French physician and botanist. While working as a military surgeon with the French Army, he studied botany at Strasbourg in 1805 and later moved to Paris to continue his work as a botanical writer and editor.
Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840) was one of the greatest botanical artists of the Napoleonic era, along with Redoute and Bessa. When serving in the French army in Haiti in 1794, Turpin met botanist Pierre Antoine Poiteau… Read More

Very good complete copy of Hermann Köhler's celebrated German study of medicinal botanyWith 283 dynamic botanical chromolithographs mainly signed W.M. (Walther Otto Muller), with others by Carl Friedrich Schmidt and K. or E. Gunther. The botanical plates are justly famous for their attractive design, with all parts of the flower, leaf, branch, fruit and seed displayed over the entire plate.This monumental German herbal was written principally by Hermann Adolph Köhler, edited after his death by Gustav Pabst, and published by Franz Eugen Köhler from 1887-1890. The third volume was published later in 1898 with the subtitle Latest medicinal plants and confusions (Neueste Medizinalpflanzen und Verwechslungen), revised by Max Vogtherr and M. Gürke, curators at the Botanical Museum in Berlin.With an advert for the fourth volume with another 100 plates (never published).Hermann Adolph Köhler (1834-1879) was a Prussian German physician and chemist. He was awarded the Iron Cross for his work as a military… Read More

Very good complete copy of Stephenson and Churchill's medical botany.With 187 fine hand-coloured botanical illustrations drawn and engraved by William Clark (Vol. I), others drawn by G. Reid and Charles Morgan Curtis and engraved by [Edward Smith] Weddell and W.M. Maddocks.Includes the endangered plant roughbark lignum-vitae, Guaiacum officinale, Pl. 90.John Stephenson (1790-1864) was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He also wrote Medical Zoology and Mineralogy (1838). James Morss Churchill (1796-1863) was a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and Fellow of the Medico-Botanical Society of London. He also wrote the first article on acupuncture in the UK in 1821.New edition (after the first in four volumes in 1831) edited by Gilbert T. Burnett, Professor of Botany at King's College, London. William Clark (fl. 1820-1840) was botanical artist and engraver to the Horticultural Society of London, providing illustrations for the Pomological Magazine and the… Read More

Very good complete copy of this last great English medical botany of the 19th century.With 306 fine hand-coloured botanical plates, several double-page, some finished with gum arabic, drawn from nature and lithographed by David Blair. Each dynamic plate filled to the edge with details of the plant's stalk, leaf, fruit, seed, branch and flower.Each plate with several pages of text including description, habitat, collection and commerce, general character and composition, medical properties and uses.Robert Bentley (1821-1893) was an English botanist and pharmacologist. He was professor in botany at King's College from 1859, and became a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 1874. Henry Trimen (1843-1896) was a London-born botanist who became director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Ceylon (Botanical Gardens of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka) from 1879-95. He also published The Flora of Ceylon (1893) David Blair (1820-1899?), was a botanical artist and lithographer who also worked on Transactions of the… Read More

Very good complete copy of this Victorian classic of medical botany
Botanical illustrations by Mary Ann Burnett, sister of botanist Gilbert Burnett
First edition in four volumes complete with all 260 botanical illustrations drawn and hand-coloured by the artist
Illustrations of useful flowers, fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, medicinal plants, botanical dyes, mushrooms, etc.
Zincograph plates by Charles Chabot
One of only 316 copies printed for 262 subscribers
Mary Ann Burnett was the sister of Gilbert Burnett, Professor of Botany at King's College London and the Apothecaries' Society, Chelsea. Mary was an artist and worked as "a colourer of drawings and maps." Her brother's sudden death at age 35 in 1835 left her (and her mother) in "utter destitution." In 1836, the London Medical and Surgical Journal launched an appeal on their behalf with donations accepted at several banks and other locations in London.
Partly to stave off destitution, Mary Ann edited the text of her brother's magnum opus… Read More