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The herbal of the Count Palatine; an eighteenth-century herbal. / Christoph Jakob Trew. Illustrated by Elizabeth Blackwell and Georg Dionysius Ehret.
LIBRA Rare QK98 .T74 1985 Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trew, Christoph Jakob, 1695-1769.
- Standardized Title:
- Erbario del Conte Palatino. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Botany--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
- Botany.
- Herbals--Illustrations.
- Herbals.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 135 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Manufacture:
- Verona, Italy : Printed and bound by Officine Grafiche di Arnoldo Mondadori Editore.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Harrap, [1985]
- Language Note:
- "First published in Italy under the title 'L'Erbario del Conte Palatino' by Arnoldo Mondadori S.P.A., Milan."
- Contents:
- The physician, the noblewoman and the gardener
- The garden of curiosities
- A knowledge of the simples
- The plant hunters
- The kitchen garden and the wood.
- Notes:
- "Illustrations by Elizabeth Blackwell from the 'Herbarium Blackwellianum' and by Georg Dionysius Ehret from 'Plantae selectae'."
- "Translated by Lucia Woodward."
- Text written in double columns on light olive green paper
- Includes bibliographical references (page 131) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0245543082
- 9780245543081
- 0245543023
- 9780245543029
- OCLC:
- 59178209
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