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Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian. Oil paintings.

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

A medical author seated at his desk, writing, a herbal on his lap. Engraving by P. Aubry, ca. 1657.

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.

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.

Zu den Pflanzen- und Tierdarstellungen in einem mittelalterlichen deutschen Kodex zu Debrecen (Ungarn) / Zoltán Kádar, András Vizkelety.

Claudii Salmasii exercitationes de homonymis hyles iatricæ nunquam antehac editæ, ut et de manna et saccharo.

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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.

Zu den Pflanzen- und Tierdarstellungen in einem mittelalterlichen deutschen Kodex zu Debrecen (Ungarn) / Zoltán Kádar, András Vizkelety.

Claudii Salmasii exercitationes de homonymis hyles iatricæ nunquam antehac editæ, ut et de manna et saccharo.