CULPEPER'S
COMPLETE HERBAL
TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED,
UPWARDS OF
ONE HUNDRED ADDITIONAL HERBS
WITH A DISPLAY OF THEIR
Medicinal and Occult Qualities;
Physically applied to
THE CURE OF ALL DISORDERS INCIDENT TO MANKIND
To which are now annexed his
ENGLISH PHYSICAN ENLARGED,
AND
KEY TO PHYSIC
WITH
RULES for Compounding MEDICINE according to the true SYSTEM OF NATURE
FORMING A COMPLETE
FAMILY DISPENSATORY,
AND
NATURAL SYSTEM OF PHYSIC,
TO WHICH IS ALSO ADDED
UPWARDS OF FIFTY CHOICE RECEIPTS,
Selected from the Author's last Legacy to his Wife.
……………………………………………………………………………………….
EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS OF UPWARDS OF FOUR HUNDRED DIFFERENT PLANTS.
WITH OTHER
SUBJECTS TO ILLUSTRATE THE WORK
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"The Lord created Medicines out of the Earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them" Eccxxxviii.4
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London :
Published by RICHARD EVANS, No.8. Whites Row. Spitafields
J HADDON, PRINTER, TABERNACLE WALK
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1814
DESCRIPTION
398 numbered pages. Size = 274x220x40 mm. Weight unpacked=1575 grams
COLLATION
ISFC
FFEP
Frontispiece Portrait of Nicholas Culpeper (published August 12th 1814)
Title Page
Culpeper's Epistle to the Reader pp iii-vi
To His Dearest Consort Mrs Alice Culpeper pp vi
40 Hand coloured plates each with 12 plants, so 480 plants dispersed through the next section*.
The English Physician Enlarged pp 1-198
Directions For Making Syrup, Conserves pp 199-211
The English Physician and Family Dispensatory pp 211-375
A Key to Gallen's Method of Physic pp 376-394
Culpeper's Last Legacies pp 396-398
General index
4 sides blanks
ISBC
* Plates. Each page has a plate number which are not quite consecutive. There are twelve plants to a page and they are more or less alphabetical and the first plant is mostly on a page nearby. The plates are blank on the reverse. I give the plate number, the facing page, and the first plant name in the list below.
Plate 2 p6 Avens
Plate 1 p7 Common Alder
Plate 4 p15 Balm
Plate 3 p20 Beets
Plate 39 p45 Blackheart Cherry
Plate 5 p54 Common Female Citus
Plate 6 p59 Cuckow Pint
Plate 7 p62 Coryander
Plate 8 p63 Dill
Plate 9 p69 Elecampane
Plate 10 p75 Filipendula
Plate 11 p76 Common Flax
Plate 12 p87 Groundsel
Plate 13 p96 White Horhound
Plate 14 p103 Common Knott Grass
Plate 15 p104 Love Apple
Plate 17 p117 Cat Mint
Plate 38 p124 Snake Apples
Plate 18 p126 Common Mallow
Plate 19 p128 Mandrake
Plate 20 p129 Wild Navew
Plate 23 p131 Parsley Pert
Plate 21 p139 Sprignel
Plate 22 p141 Privet
Plate 40 p142 GreenGage
Plate 16 p144 Hedge Mustard
Plate 24 p157 Wild Radish
Plate 25 p164 Samphire
Plate 26 p172 Roman Sorrel
Plate 27 p176 Third Samphire
Plate 28 p178 Tansey
Plate 36 p179 Yucca
Plate 29 p187 Flat Vervain
Plate 33 p188 Scarlet Violet
Plate 30 p189 Creeping Vervain
Plate 32 p191 Goat Weed
Plate 37 p192 Spelt Wheat
Plate 34 p192 White Willow
Plate 35 p193 Small Blue Wolfbane
Plate 31 p194 Spurge Laurel
Condition
Original leather binding with outer joints being crudely repaired years ago and the inner joints strengthened. ISFC has a partial label "HEARN Publisher TRURO" and a few old, faint inscriptions. Frontispiece is damp-stained and has some age marks. The text block and plates are in really good condition, despite being over two hundred years old. There are occasional marks on the colour plates mostly from the colourist. The two final blanks are creased. The plates are mostly clean and have been originally and anciently hand coloured, some with more care than others.
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