Irish botanist, doctor, and collector (1660-1753)

The Physic Garden, Chelsea: a view showing the pair of cedar trees, and the statue of Sloane in the centre of the garden. Lithograph by H. Warren after J. Fuge.

Sir Hans Sloane. Line engraving by Wray, 1795, after T. Murray, 1725.

Sir Hans Sloane. Stipple engraving by J.B. Bird after S. Slaughter, 1736.

The natural history of the pachydermes. Or, thick-skinned quadrupeds; consisting of the elephants, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, tapir, hog, &c / Illustrated by thirty-two plates, with memoir and portrait of Sir Hans Sloane.

The Physic Garden, Chelsea: men botanizing in the garden, near the statue of Sir Hans Sloane, 1750. Wood engraving by T. W. Lascelles after H. G. Glindoni, 1890.

Sir Hans Sloane. Lithograph, 1829, after M. Rysbrack.

Sir Hans Sloane. Stipple engraving after S. Slaughter, 1736.

Sir Hans Sloane. Line engraving after Sir G. Kneller, 1716.

Sir Hans Sloane. Stipple engraving by T. Prescott.

Sir Hans Sloane. Stipple engraving by W. Holl.

Sir Hans Sloane. Line engraving by W. H. Lizars after T. Murray, 1722.

xxxi, 503 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm

Collecting the world : the life and curiosity of Hans Sloane / James Delbourgo.

3 volumes (6 unnumbered pages, 59 pages, 1 unnumbered page; 8 unnumbered pages, 64; 18 unnumbered pages, 58 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (engravings, woodcuts) ; 20 cm (8vo)

Useful transactions in philosophy, and other sorts of learning, for the months of.

x, 310 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm

From books to bezoars : Sir Hans Sloane and his collections / edited by Alison Walker, Arthur MacGregor, and Michael Hunter.

1 print : engraving ; image 33.8 x 32.2 cm

The coats of arms of Frederick and Augusta, Princess and Princess of Wales, presented to Cromwell Mortimer after he elucidated for them the rarities of nature and art in Sir Hans Sloane's museum. Engraving, 1748.

Natural history, natural philosophy and the nature of medicine : the experiences and rationale of the colonial doctor, 1670-1730 / Oliver Tann.

Incipit clarificatoriu[m] ioha[n]nis de tornamira super nono alma[n]soris cu[m] textu ipsius Rasis.

De affectionibus cordis libri tres / Hannibalis Albertinii.

Le chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens. Avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necesseres pour l'opération manuelle / Par Iacques Guillemeau.

L'ordre et regime qu'on doit garder et tenir en la cure des fièvres: avec ung chapitre singulier contenant les causes & remedes des fievres pestilentielles. Plus, ung dialogue contenant les causes, jugemens, couleurs et hypostases des urines, lesquelles adviennent le plus souvent a ceus qui ont la fièvre. / Compose par M. Sebastien Colin medecin a Fontenay le Comte en Poitou.

A voyage to the islands, Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life / By Hans Sloane.

Castigationes seu emendationes pharmacopolarum, sive apothecariorum, ac Arabum medicorum Mesuȩ, Serapionis, Rasis, Alpharabii, & aliorum juniorum medicorum ... in quatuor libros ac tomos divisae ... Liber primus De simplicibus medicamentis, quo docentur errata seplasiarum & pharmacopolarum ... ac recentium medicorum ... Liber secundus in quo continentur Castigationes in Antidotarium seu Grabadin Joannis Mesuȩ, Nicolai, Serapionis, ac aliorum recentiorum medicorum. Liber tertius est de ingenio curandorum corporum per medicinas laxativas. Liber quartus complectitur curationes ac remedia aegritudinum principalium humani corporis. Quibus adjungitur Officina apothecariorum, & juniorum medicorum. Item de phlebotomia sive sanguinis missione, & acerbano discorso dell eccellente medico et filosofo m andrea praesertim in pleuritide ... Item de vinis febricitantium / [Symphorien Champier].

Hydrophilacium novum, seu discursus de aquis salubribus mineralibus vere novus : in quo aquae minerales tam potabiles quam balneabiles omnes cujuscunque sine indolis tam theoretice quam practice methodo hactenus nunquam tradita enucleantur, ususque earum verus assignatur; opusculum, uti medicis hactenus multum desideratum, ita & necessarium ac summe utile  / authore Jo. Jacobo Francisco Vicario.

4 unnumbered pages, 102 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves ; (4to)

De vita conservanda / [Albertino Bottoni].

Dissertatio epistolica ... in qua crystallizationem salium in unicam et propriam, uti dicunt, figuram, esse admodum incertam, aut accidentalem, ex observationibus etiam suis, contra medicos et chymicos hodiernos, evincitur / [Ralph Dring].

Online resource (10 unnumbered pages, 87 leaves, , (fol.)).

Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex / Ioanne Ruellio Suessionensi interprete. Singulis cum stirpium, tum animantium historiis, ad naturae aemulationem expressis imaginibus ... Additis etiam annotationibus sive scholis brevissimis quidem, quæ tamen de medicinali materia omnem controversiam facile tollant per Gualtherum H. Ryff, Argentinum. Omnia ex doctissimorum virorum lucubrationibus jamprimum concinnata et in lucem aedita ... Accessere in eundem autorem schola nova, cum nomenclaturis græcis, latinis hebraicis et germanicis, Ioanne Lonicero autore.

4 unnumbered pages, cl, 18 unnumbered leaves (last blank) : title in red with woodcut device of Giunta, woodcuts ; (4to)

Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.

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Hans Sloane

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Images by Hans Sloane

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De vita conservanda / [Albertino Bottoni].

Dissertatio epistolica ... in qua crystallizationem salium in unicam et propriam, uti dicunt, figuram, esse admodum incertam, aut accidentalem, ex observationibus etiam suis, contra medicos et chymicos hodiernos, evincitur / [Ralph Dring].

Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.

Collecting the world : the life and curiosity of Hans Sloane / James Delbourgo.

Useful transactions in philosophy, and other sorts of learning, for the months of.

From books to bezoars : Sir Hans Sloane and his collections / edited by Alison Walker, Arthur MacGregor, and Michael Hunter.

The coats of arms of Frederick and Augusta, Princess and Princess of Wales, presented to Cromwell Mortimer after he elucidated for them the rarities of nature and art in Sir Hans Sloane's museum. Engraving, 1748.

Natural history, natural philosophy and the nature of medicine : the experiences and rationale of the colonial doctor, 1670-1730 / Oliver Tann.

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Hans Sloane

Images from the collections

Images by Hans Sloane

Images featuring Hans Sloane

Works from the collections

De vita conservanda / [Albertino Bottoni].

Dissertatio epistolica ... in qua crystallizationem salium in unicam et propriam, uti dicunt, figuram, esse admodum incertam, aut accidentalem, ex observationibus etiam suis, contra medicos et chymicos hodiernos, evincitur / [Ralph Dring].

Incipit tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.

Collecting the world : the life and curiosity of Hans Sloane / James Delbourgo.

Useful transactions in philosophy, and other sorts of learning, for the months of.

From books to bezoars : Sir Hans Sloane and his collections / edited by Alison Walker, Arthur MacGregor, and Michael Hunter.

The coats of arms of Frederick and Augusta, Princess and Princess of Wales, presented to Cromwell Mortimer after he elucidated for them the rarities of nature and art in Sir Hans Sloane's museum. Engraving, 1748.

Natural history, natural philosophy and the nature of medicine : the experiences and rationale of the colonial doctor, 1670-1730 / Oliver Tann.

Frequent collaborators

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