CULPEPER, Nicholas. 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… London: Thomas Kelly. 1823.
4to. Recent tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt raised bands, gilt lettering; pp. vi, 398, [4, index], frontispiece portrait of Culpeper, 40 hand-coloured plates; frontis creased, intermittent spotting, tear to margin of plate 31 not affecting image, very good.
Later, enlarged edition of this classic herbal. "Of the astrological herbalists, Nicholas Culpeper stands eminently forward. His 'Herbal', first printed in 1652, which continued for more than a century, to be the manual of good ladies in the country, is well known; and, to do the author justice, his descriptions of common plants were drawn up with a clearness and distinction that would not have disgraced a better pen" (Hunt 711).
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