Johnson, Thomas ( -1644)

Descriptio iteneris plantarum investigationis ergo suscepti in Agrum Cantianum, Anno Dom[ini], 1632, et enumeratio plantarum in Ericeto Hampstediano locisque vicinis crescentium. ... Excudebat Tho[mas] Cotes. 1632. Inter-leaved transcript of the second edition of Johnson's work, first printed in 1629. With inserted A.l.s. dated 11/7/1928, referring to the MS. from F. R. W. Needham, Secretary to the Department of Western MSS., Bodleian Library.

Early 18th century

1 volume 5 ll. + 61 pp. 8vo. 191/2 × 12 cm. Original calf binding, damaged.

Purchased 1928.

The author was a botanist, and published an edition of Gerard's Herbal. He obtained his M.D. at Oxford in 1643 and died the following year in the Civil War [see the Dictionary of National Biography].

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Armorial bookplate of John Wilmer, and of the Society of Apothecaries.