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Sheldrake, Timothy, -1770
Hemmerich, Cornelius Heinrich, engraver
Basire, James, 1730-1802, engraver
Basire, James, 1769-1822, engraver
Millan, John, -1782, bookseller
Title
Botanicum medicinale : an herbal of medicinal plants on the College of Physicians list : describing their places of growth, roots, bark, leaves, buds, time of flowering, blossoms, flowers, stiles, chives, embrio's, fruits, farina, colours, seeds, kernels, seed-vessels, parts used in medicine, preparations in the shops, medicinal virtues, names in nine languages : most beautifully engraved on 118 large folio copper-plates from the exquisite drawings of the late ingenious T. Sheldrake ; ... To which is now added, his tables for finding the heat and cold in all climates that exotic plants may be raised in summer and preserved in winter
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Publisher
London : Printed for J. Millan, opposite the Admiralty, Whitehall
Description
"English plants are drawn from nature to the greatest accuracy, flowers, or parts, too small to be distinguished, are magnified ..."
"Designed to promote botanical knowledge, prevent mistakes in the use of simples in compounding and preparing medicines, to illustrate and render such herbals as want the just representations in their proper figures and colours more useful. Necessary to such as practice physic, pharmacy, chemistry, &c., entertaining to the curious, the divine and philosopher, in contemplating these wonderful productions, useful to painters, herbals, carver, designers, gardeners, &c. ..."
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Plates arranged alphabetically in order of English names, numbered 1-73, 73*, 74-117; drawn by Sheldrake and engraved by C.H. Hemerich, J. Basire, and J. Basire, Junr
English short title catalogue
Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800

Subjects: Medicinal plants; Identification; Botany, Medical; Herbals
Language eng
Publication date 1768
publication_date QS:P577,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: biodiversity; bhlexpandingaccess
Accession number
botanicummedici00shel
Source
https://archive.org/details/botanicummedici00shel
https://archive.org/download/botanicummedici00shel/botanicummedici00shel.pdf

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