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A man designated as John Gerard, surgeon and herbalist. Oil painting, ca. 1901 (?).

John Gerard. Line engraving by T. Berry after J. Payne, 1633.

John Gerard: portrait and botanical motifs. Line engraving by J. Payne, 1633.

A catalogue of plants cultivated in the garden of John Gerard, in the years 1596-1599 / Ed., with notes, references to Gerard's Herball, the addition of modern names, and a life of the author, by Benjamin Daydon Jackson, F. L. S.

Of books and botany in early modern England : sixteenth-century plants and print culture / Leah Knight.

John Gerard, surgeon and herbalist. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?).

The herball or, generall historie of plantes / Gathered by John Gerarde ... Very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson.

The herball or, generall historie of plantes / Gathered by John Gerarde.

The herball, or general historie of plantes / Gathered by John Gerarde ... Very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson.

Totius Latinitatis lexicon consilio et cura Jacobi Facciolati, opera et studio Ægidii Forcellini ... lucubratum / Edidit, Anglicam interpretationem in locum Italicæ substituit, appendicem Patavinam [by G. Cognolato] lexico passim intertexuit, pauca de suo distinctione per obelos facta huc atque illuc sparsit, auctarium denique et Horatii Tursellini de particulis Latinæ orationis libellum etiam Gerrardi Siglarium Romanum et Gesneri indicem etymologicum adjecit Jacobus Bailey.

The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie.

Gerard's Herball : the essence thereof / distilled by Marcus Woodward from the edition of Th. Johnson, 1636.

The herball, or, Generall historie of plantes / gathered by John Gerarde ... ; very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson.

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Gerard, John, 1545-1612

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The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie.

A catalogue of plants cultivated in the garden of John Gerard, in the years 1596-1599 / Ed., with notes, references to Gerard's Herball, the addition of modern names, and a life of the author, by Benjamin Daydon Jackson, F. L. S.

Gerard's Herball : the essence thereof / distilled by Marcus Woodward from the edition of Th. Johnson, 1636.

The herball, or, Generall historie of plantes / gathered by John Gerarde ... ; very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson.