Book containing the names and descriptions of plants

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L. Fuchs, Neu Kreuterbuch, in welchem nit al

Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian. Oil paintings.

Hortus Sanitatis, Strasbourg, c. 1497

O. Brunfels, Herbarium vivae ei coneb ad nat

W. Coles, Adam in Eden, 1657

The old English herbals / by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde ... ; with coloured frontispiece and 17 illustrations.

Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of the late Joseph Frank Payne, M.D. F.R.C.P., Librarian to the Royal College of Physicians; Hon. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; Emeritus Harveian Professor; consulting physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; late President of the Pathological, Epidemiological and Dermitological Societies : comprising his collection of rare herbals and other natural history books, a series of the first and later editions of John Milton's writings and Miltoniana, and old and modern books in general literature. Which will be sold by auction by messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge... on Tuesday, the 30th of January, 1912, and following day.

Image of a cockrel. woodcut, 1547

The warriors way: seeds for cultivating the timeless.

MS.9317

Culpeper's complete herbal : with nearly four hundred medicines, made from English herbs, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to man; with rules for compuounding them: also, directions for making syrups, ointments, &c / by Nicholas Culpeper.

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Herbal

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Image of a cockrel. woodcut, 1547

The warriors way: seeds for cultivating the timeless.

MS.9317

Culpeper's complete herbal : with nearly four hundred medicines, made from English herbs, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to man; with rules for compuounding them: also, directions for making syrups, ointments, &c / by Nicholas Culpeper.

Herbal

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Image of a cockrel. woodcut, 1547

The warriors way: seeds for cultivating the timeless.

MS.9317

Culpeper's complete herbal : with nearly four hundred medicines, made from English herbs, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to man; with rules for compuounding them: also, directions for making syrups, ointments, &c / by Nicholas Culpeper.

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