CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL 1814

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.

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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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