Search Results: the family herbal or an account by hill john

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

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Paperback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

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Hardback. New.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

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Bungay; Printed And Published By C. Brightly And T. Kinnersley, . Bungay First Edition Thus With Unnumbered Plates. Hardcover. Good solid Rebacked Copy, Verso Of Front Free End Paper And Front Fly Contain Fancy Calligraphied Name Of thomas Crook Fling, Hants, 1815, These Color Plate Leaves Are Worn And Frayed, Are Partially adhered To Adjoining Page, Calf Leather Cover Edges Are Worn But Solid, Text Block With Occasionally Soiled Pages, Lacks page 303/304. Octavo, Hardcover, Full Leather Rebacked And with New Leather Spine Label Gilt Lettered, Original Covers. 1810 Fifty Four Hand Coloured Plates Most With At Least Two Images, many up to four Octavo, Hardcover, Full Leather Rebacked And with New Leather Spine Label Gilt Lettered, Original Covers, , PP.title, iii, viii, xl, 376, Sir JOhn Hill (ca1716-1775) was a physician, apothecary, and writer who first published this work in 52 parts between 1756 and 1757; All The Parts were later bound into one volume, It is noteworthy for being one of the… Read More

Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, 1808. 1808 FAMILY HERBAL BY ENGLISH PHYSICIAN BOTANIST WITH 54 FINE HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS OF PLANTS. 8 1/4 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 calf binding with marbled boards, gilt lines to spine, gilt black leather title to spine, signature of Rd Clatterbuck, Colchester on front paste-down, Partial ink inscribed list of contents on front endpaper, title page with no date, but plate facing page 137 engraved, "Publd. by Brightly Bungay 1808", xl, 376 pp, 54 finely colored engraved plates containing multiple plants. Corners bumped, wear to covers, light foxing to first and last pages, binding tight, text unmarked, scattered pressed flowers inserted between pages, overall very good. In custom archival mylar cover. JOHN HILL (1714 – 1775), called because of his Swedish honors, "Sir" John Hill, was an English author and botanist. He was apprenticed to an apothecary and on the completion of his apprenticeship he set up in a small shop in St Martin's Lane, Westminster. He… Read More

Printed and Published by J & R. Childs, Bungay, 1822, reprint. Rebound some while ago in quarter leather with marbled boards. Five raised bands to spine. The word ""Herbal"" in gilt on a red leather patch to compartment two. 8.75ins x 5.5ins, viii, xl, 376pp plus 52pp coloured plates. (The 1812 edition contained 54pp plates - there is no list of plates for this edition, but, it is likely that it should have 54 plates). Scattered browning to both text and plate pages. A well preserved G+ copy.

Bungay: C. Brightly, and T. Kinnersley, circa 1808. Undated but circa 1808. 8vo in fours. [iii], viii, [i], xl, 376pp plus colour plates. Modern quarter calf gilt over marbled boards. New endpapers. Fifty four hand-coloured plates at rear. Very good. Some spotting, offsetting and dust-soiling.

Bungay: J. & R. Childs, 1822 . Leather. Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A richly illustrated edition of English composer, actor, author and botanist Sir John Hill's discussion of the medicinal usage of English plants. First published in 1755 as 'The Useful Family Herbal, this work was first published under the 'Family Herbal' title in 1810.Illustrated with fifty-four hand-coloured plates. Collated, complete.Hill is best remembered for his illustrated botanical compendium 'The Vegetable System', which was one of the first works to use the nomenclature of Carl Linnaeus.Hill also discusses the 'drugs which are produced by the vegetables of other countries'.Endpapers renewed.The back strip is laid down upside down.A fascinating, alphabetically arranged, guide to the use of the plants of England, with illustrations of over two hundred individual plants. In a half calf binding, with cloth covered boards. Rebacked, with joints reinforced with cloth, and back strip laid down upside down. Loss of leather to… Read More

Bungay, Suffolk, England: C. Brightly and Co. and T. Kinnersly, 1812. Leather-bound. Very Good. 8vo. 8 3/8 in. x 5 in. Contemporary tree calf, double-ruled in gilt chain pattern. Contrasting spine label - six compartments. Owner name Samuel S. Parkinson to front free endpaper. Note to front pastedown: "Collated May 30, 1902), and double initialed. FIFTY-FOUR ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL COLORED PLATES. 376 pp. Tight, clean copy of a 110+ year-old book, ready for daily use! "...It is his [the author's] opinion that the true end of science is use; and in this view, the present work has been undertaken.

Very Good. 54 Hand Colored Plates.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF A POPULAR HERBAL first edition, first? issue without dedication 8vo. liv, 404pp., 8 engraved plates (each with multiple images), contemporary sprinkled calf, without the blank leaf c4 (at the end of the preliminaries, following p.liv), joints and ends of spine very neatly refurbished and with a new and sympathetic russet morocco label gilt. A fresh and attractive copy. Neat early signature at head of title page "William W. Fleming" and small and the unobtrusive twentieth century stamp of David Grant of Waterford in its lower margin. Henrey British Botanical & Horticultural Literature before 1800, 1446 cf. ESTC t62620 issue with dedicationThis first and anonymous edition was issued both without a dedication as here and with one and with a slightly different pagination (vide Henrey 1447).Hill (1716?-1775), apothecary and writer on botany, gardening and farming, was in 1750 awarded on the basis of his publications the degree of Doctor of Medicine by the University of S.… Read More

Bungay, Brightly And Kinnersley [1820?], 1820. First Edition. Hardback. Finely bound in the original [full] aniline calf; professionally and very synpathetically re-spined. Raised bands with blind-tooled cross-bands and a morocco label. An uncommonly good example of a frustratingly scarce edition; scans on request. ; 376 pages; Description: xl, 376 p. [54] color plates. Subjects: Botany--Great Britain. Botany, Medical. Binbliography & Book-collecting--Color plate books. Uniform Title: Useful family herbal. [English].