A family herbal: or, Familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnaean system / [Robert John Thornton].

  • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
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1814
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A family herbal: or, Familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnaean system / [Robert John Thornton]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : B. and R. Crosby, 1814.

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xxviii, 901 pages : color illustrations, frontispiece (portrait) ; (8vo)

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2nd ed. /

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On spine: Thornton's family herbal coloured
First ed., 1810, has title: A new family herbal: or, Popular account of the natures and properties of the various plants used in medicine, diet, and the arts
Illus. engraved by Thomas Bewick from drawings by Henderson
Inscribed: Robert Stewart

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