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Theatrum botanicum : the theater of plants, or An herball of a large extent : containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants that are in other authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare, and strange plants from all the parts of the world ... : shewing vvithall the many errors, differences, and oversights of sundry authors that have formerly written of them ... : distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property, with the chiefe notes of Dr. Lobel, Dr. Bonham, and others inserted therein / collected by the many yeares travaile, industry, and experience in this subject, by John Parkinson ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parkinson, John, 1567-1650.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botany--Pre-Linnean works.
- Botany.
- Herbals--Early works to 1800.
- Herbals.
- Medicinal plants--Early works to 1800.
- Medicinal plants.
- Penn Provenance:
- Bartram Society (donor) (RBC copy)
- Norris, Charles (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 20 unnumbered pages, 1755, that is, 1745, 3 pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 37 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Theater of plants
- Herball of a large extent
- Theater of plantes, or, an universall and compleate herball
- Universall and compleate herball
- Fingerprint:
- n.t, n.nd r-esb cost (3) 1640 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640.
- Summary:
- John Parkinson (1567-1650) was the last Englishman to write in the true herbalistic (as opposed to botanical) tradition. His Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, an Herball of Large Extent is the largest herbal in the English language. It described about 3800 plants as compared to 2850 in Johnson's 1633 edition of Gerard. The Theatrum contained the first British record of several native plants, but the numerous woodcut illustrations are mostly inferior reproductions of those in Johnson's edition of Gerard's Herball, although a few are original.--J. Norman, 2006.
- Notes:
- With an additional title page, engraved, "Theatrum botanicum, the theater of plantes. ..", signed: W· Marshall sculpsit.
- Errors in pagination: nos. 132/3 repeated; nos. 142/3, 1653/62 omitted; p. 311, 314, 608, 729, 763, incorrectly numbered 310, 318, 908, 727, 673; nos. 81/2 reversed with 75/6.
- Signatures: [A]⁶ (a)⁴ B-4L⁶ 4M⁴ 4N-7I⁶.
- Errata on verso of last leaf.
- Local Notes:
- RBC imperfect: lower outer corner of added engraved title page torn off and mended.
- RBC imperfect: leaf B1 torn at outer margin.
- Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: added, engraved title page wanting.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, S121875
- STC (2nd ed.) 19302
- Hunt botanical cat. 235
- Rohde, E.S. Old english herbals (1971), ch. 6
- Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration, 1490
- Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 1062
- OCLC:
- 3316161
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