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Item Details
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| Author: |
Gerard, [John] |
| Title: |
The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Printed by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers |
| Date: |
1636 |
| Item # : |
168029 |
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326 |
| Lot Number |
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91 |
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| Rare Books & Manuscripts |
| Sale Date |
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02/23/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 5462 |
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| Description: |
| [36] (incl. engraved title-page), 1630, [2], [44] pp. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts of plants; copper-engraved pictorial title-page. (folio)13x8¾, antique-style full calf tooled in gilt & blind, raised spine bands, brass protectors at corners and cover edges, brass clasps. Third Edition. |
| Third edition of Gerard's great herbal, which first appeared in 1597; this is basically the same as the second edition, which was the first to be edited by Johnson, noted by David M. Knight, Natural Science Books in English, 1600-1900, as "botanically greatly superior to the first edition." Blunt, in The Art of Botanical Illustration, says "Johnson's scholarly edition of Gerard (1633) was illustrated with 2677 blocks from the collection accumulated by Plantin." Ownership signature of John Silverman (dated 1715) on 3¶6 verso, along with mention of birth in 1731 of Daniel Holloway; ownership signature of John Hileman on blank verso of full-page woodcut following p.1630. |
| Condition: |
| Title-page mounted on backing leaf, repairing a few tears, some soiling, repairs to following leaf and occasional instances of repairs and restoration within; 2¶6 (in "To the Reader") misbound after A7, 7B1 (index-page), misbound after A1; lacking blanks at front and rear (i.e. ¶1 and 7B6). Internally a very good or better copy, in lovely clasped binding in the style of the period. |
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