1842 The Complete Herbal; to Which is Now Added, Upwards of One Hundred Additional Herbs, with a Display of their Medicinal and Occult Qualities

Description

Colour Plates, Rebound

Culpeper's 'Herbal' was an enormously successful seventeenth century work, first published as 'The English Physician' in 1652.

This work is a complete guide to herbs, discussing their medicinal and occult qualities for which they can be used, and has been a standard reference work for pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge.

Culpeper's aim for this work was to make medical treatments more accessible to the public, intending to educate them about herbs which could be used to help maintain their health.

Illustrated with an engraved title page, and nineteen brightly hand coloured plates. Collated, lacking plate no I, which should be a hand coloured botanical plate.

Undated; dated 1842 via the University of Bristol Libraries.

Inscription to verso of plate II.

Written by Nicholas Culpeper, a botanist, herbalist, and astrologer. He spent most of his life cataloguing medicinal herbs, and was briefly accused of witchcraft in the English Civil War. He was a relative of Thomas Culpeper, the lover of Catherine Howard, who was beheaded on order of Henry VIII.