GERARD (John): THE HERBALL OR GENERALL HISTORIE OF PLANTES, London, Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633. Second edition, folio (340 x 225mm.), engraved title (cut down and mounted), numerous wood cut illustrations (lacking first and last blanks, dedication cut down and mounted, 4 following leaves with upper margins strengthened, 5X4, 6I3.4 and 6T6 supplied from smaller copies, the second with 2 hand-coloured illustrations), late-18th-century English red morocco gilt, Ormathwaite armorial bookplate (spine faded and slightly scuffed). A good copy with an interesting American association: there are at least 12 manuscipt entries in an 18th-century hand identifying various plants as growing in Maryland. i.e. p.446 'This Codded Arsmart grows plentifully in Maryland & we call it Skipweed which being boyl'd is a good sallad', p.1525 'This Tree groweth naturally & to a very large Magnitude in the province of Maryland...'. Hunt 223; STC 11751; Nissen 698.
GERARD (John): THE HERBALL OR GENERALL HISTORIE OF PLANTES, London, Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633. Second edition, folio (340 x 225mm.), engraved title (cut down and mounted), numerous wood cut illustrations (lacking first and last blanks, dedication cut down and mounted, 4 following leaves with upper margins strengthened, 5X4, 6I3.4 and 6T6 supplied from smaller copies, the second with 2 hand-coloured illustrations), late-18th-century English red morocco gilt, Ormathwaite armorial bookplate (spine faded and slightly scuffed). A good copy with an interesting American association: there are at least 12 manuscipt entries in an 18th-century hand identifying various plants as growing in Maryland. i.e. p.446 'This Codded Arsmart grows plentifully in Maryland & we call it Skipweed which being boyl'd is a good sallad', p.1525 'This Tree groweth naturally & to a very large Magnitude in the province of Maryland...'. Hunt 223; STC 11751; Nissen 698.
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