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Botanicum medicinale : Or An herbal of medicinal plants on the list of the College of Physicians, describing their the place of growth, roots, leaves, flowers, time of flowering, fruits, seed-vessels, seeds, ripening their fruit, colours, parts used in medicine, preparations in the shops. Together with the medicinal virtues, and their names in nine languages. By T. Sheldrake. Note, such plants as grow in England, are drawn from nature with greatest exactness. All such flowers, or parts of flowers, as are too small to be distinguished by the eye, will be magnified, and marked on the plates. This work is disposed in such manner, that every promoter of it may bind them as they shall most approve of, whether alphabetically suitable to any of the languages, or according to their different genus's particular qualities, and their several uses in medicine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheldrake, Timothy, -1770.
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicinal plants--Early works to 1800.
- Medicinal plants.
- Plants--Identification--Early works to 1800.
- Plants.
- Plants--Identification.
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 400 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (color) ; folio
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : [publisher not identified], [1755?]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- The work was issued in parts, probably with a printed blue paper wrapper per issue.
- Title and imprint taken from wrapper.
- Plates drawn by Sheldrake and engraved by C. H. Hemerich and J. Basire.
- 'This work will consist of about 400 folio copper-plates ... Three plates making one number ... This work ... will be delivered weekly, without intermission, every Thursday to the subscribers within the bills of mortality' -- Conditions on wrapper.
- Presumed date of publication from Henrey.
- Copy of a wrapper for issue no. 18 in John Johnson Collection (Bodleian Library) is dated: August 7 1755.
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
- Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
- Cited in:
- Henrey, 1312
- English Short Title Catalog, T301118.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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