The Complete Herbal; to Which is Now Added, Upwards of One Hundred Additional Herbs, with a Display of Their Medicinal and Occult Qualities Physically Applied to the Cure of All Disorders Incident to Mankind: To which are Now First Annexed...
London: Thomas Kelly, 1850. Hardcover. 4to. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #004451
...The English Physician Enlarged, and Key to Physic. WIth Rules for Compounding Medicine according to the true system of nature. Full contemporary marbled calf. Gilt decorated compartments to spine, gilt and blind frames to front and rear boards. Marbled edges. vi, 398, [4 p.p. index]. Twenty hand-coloured plates + frontis portrait. New endpapers. Professionally rebacked with original spine laid down. Cloth repairs to hinges. Wear and cracking to calf at spine, wear to edges. Ink ownership inscription to verso of ffep. Chip to fore edge of frontis, repaired with paper. Some staining and foxing to interior, otherwise a clean, tight copy of an important work of herbal and alternative medicine.
Price: $700.00