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  • Herbals, their origin and evolution : a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670 / by Agnes Arber.
  • Herbals, their origin and evolution : a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670 / by Agnes Arber.
  • The old English herbals / by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde ... ; with coloured frontispiece and 17 illustrations.
  • The old English herbals / by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde ... ; with coloured frontispiece and 17 illustrations.
  • The old English herbals / by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde ... ; with coloured frontispiece and 17 illustrations.
  • A complete herbal ... / by James Newton, containing the prints and the English names of several thousand trees, plants, shrubs, flowers, exotics, etc. Many of which are not to be found in the herbals of either Gerard, Johnson or Parkinson.
  • Ming herbal:
  • Ming herbal (painting): Tricosanthes
  • Fuchsia magellanica Lam. Onagraceae. Hardy fuchsia. Semi-hardy shrub. Distribution: Mountainous regions of Chile and Argentina where they are called 'Chilco' by the indigenous people, the Mapuche. The genus was discovered by Charles Plumier in Hispaniola in 1696/7, and named by him for Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), German Professor of Medicine, whose illustrated herbal, De Historia Stirpium (1542) attempted the identification of the plants in the Classical herbals. It also contained the first accounts of maize, Zea mays, and chilli peppers, Capsicum annuum, then recently introduced from Latin America. He was also the first person to publish an account and woodcuts of foxgloves, Digitalis purpurea and D. lutea. The book contains 500 descriptions and woodcuts of medicinal plants, arranged in alphabetical order, and relied heavily on the De Materia Medica (c. AD 70) of Dioscorides. He was a powerful influence on the herbals of Dodoens, and thence to Gerard, L’Escluse and Henry Lyte. A small quarto edition appeared in 1551, and a two volume facsimile of the 1542 edition with commentary and selected translations from the Latin was published by Stanford Press in 1999. The original woodcuts were passed from printer to printer and continued in use for 232 years (Schinz, 1774). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Owl
  • Ming herbal (painting): Stephania
  • Ming herbal (painting): Shrike
  • Ming herbal (painting): Pigeons
  • Ming herbal (painting): Lindera
  • Ming herbal (painting): Stork
  • Ming herbal (painting): Crow
  • Ming herbal (painting): Quail
  • Ming herbal (painting): Cormorant
  • Ming herbal (painting): Peacock
  • Ming herbal (painting): Swan
  • Ming herbal (painting): Paulownia
  • Ming herbal (painting): Longan
  • Japanese Manuscript: Herbal 1620.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Fig
  • Herbal, 17th century
  • Ming herbal (painting): Violet
  • Ming herbal (painting): Horse
  • [Leaflet advertising Viper (herbal viagra)].
  • Japanese herbal, 17th century
  • Famine Relief Herbal (1593): Preface