Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging.

  • Seager, H. W. (Herbert West), 1848-
Date:
1896
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Credit: Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    History in Shakespeare's time, which were written on more scientific principles, e.g., Carol. Clusii Exoticorum Libri Decem, but these were published abroad, and in Latin, and were probably unknown to him. Hortus Sanitatis. The edition here quoted is one of the two undated ones mentioned by Hain, and from it the woodcuts have been photographed. There were five dated editions between 1490 and 1517. Topsell. The History of Four-footed Beasts and Ser- pents and [7\ Mouff'et] The Theater of Insects; in one volume, Lond. 1658, The first edition of Topsell's His- tory of Four-footed Beasts was printed in 1607. The Serpents followed in 1608. MoufFet's Theater of Insects appears to have been written about 1584. Holland's Pliny. The Historic of the World, com- monly called the Naturall Historic of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke . . . London, 1634. The first edition of this, book was published in 1601. Harrison s Description of Britain, sometimes quoted as Holinshed's Description of Britain. An Historicall de- scription of the Hand of Britaine . . . written by W. H. [William Harrison]. This description is prefixed to the first volume of Holinshed's Chronicles, and is here quoted from the 1586 edition. It first appeared in 1577. Gerard's Herbal. The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London, Master in Chirurgerie. Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London. London, 1633. The first edition of Gerard's Herbal appeared in 1596. [Johnson's additions are in this book generally distinguished by his name.] Parkinsons Herbal. Theatrum Botanicum : The Theater of Plants. Or an Herball of a large Extent . . .