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Thornton, Robert John

A New Family Herbal; or Popular Account of the Nature and Properties of the Various Plants used in Medicine, Diet and the Arts

1810

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Year of publication
1810
Place of printing
London. Richard Phillips
Author
Thornton, Robert John
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Nature - Botany Herbals
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

thick 8vo [22 x 14 cm]; xvi, 901, [i, publisher's ads] pp, 283 wood engravings, engraved by Thomas Bewick. orig marbled boards with later leather spine, gilt-ruled and gilt spine title lettering, lightly rubbed, armorial engraved bookplate of P. C. D. Mundy, light stain in outer corner of last 10 leaves else a clean and crisp copy, fine in handsome binding, w. The book is notable for its Bewick wood engravings and, of course, for its author who wrote several books on related topics including the famous Temple of Flora. A rich source work with much on coffee, tea, Peruvian bark (cinchona for malaria treatment), poppies, and hundreds of others, each entry with description, illustration, history, preparations or uses, etc. This copy without the usual browning and foxing. Nissen 1954. Pritzel 9238. Plesch 743.