1812 HERBAL Medicine 1ed John Hill Plants Flowers Color Illustrated Distillation

1812 HERBAL Medicine 1^ed John Hill Plants Flowers Color Illustrated Distillation

John Hill was an 18^th-century English botanist who published a number of botanical works including an important family medical book entitled ‘The Family Herbal’. Seeing reprints for nearly a century after its first edition, this work is filled with direction on growing plants and vegetables, their medical properties, preservation of roots, leaves, seeds, and flowers, recipes for distillation and medical syrups, and much more. And while the contents of this work are highly interesting, the most desirable aspect of this work is the abundance of beautiful, full-page color engravings throughout.

Item number: #25723

Price: $750

HILL, John

The family herbal, or, An account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries, with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience : also directions for the gathering and preserving roots, herbs, flowers, and seeds; the various methods of preserving these simples for present use; receipts for making distilled waters, conserves, syrups, electuaries, juleps, draughts, &c. &c. with necessary cautions in giving them

Bungay : C. Brightly and Company : T. Kinnersley, 1812. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • viii, xl, 376
  • 54 color engraved plates
• Provenance: Handwritten – [Tho^s. Cleaver]
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~8.5in X 5.25in (21.5cm x 13.5cm)

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