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Ripon Cathedral2
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Brotherton Collection2
Incunabula1

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botany14
herbs5
herbals4
botany, medical4
materia medica2
medicinal plants1
plants1
materia medica, vegetable1
fruit-culture1
fishes1

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Gerard, John (1545-1612)3
Salviani, Orazio2
Champier, Symphorien (1472?-1535)2
Fuchs, Leonhart (1501-1566)2
Maignan, Eloi De1
Gueroult, Guillaume (1559)1
Gueroult, Guillaume1
Manuzio, Aldo1
Hentzske, Michael1
Marescotti, Giorgio1

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Seminarium sive plantarium earum arborum, quae post hortos conseri solent : quarum nomina, fructus, ite[m] etiam conserendi vocabula apud authores bene recepta hoc libello declarantur

Estienne, Charles (1504-1564); Estienne, Robert (1503?-1559)

1536

Caption title: Caroli Stephani Seminarium, siue mauis appellare plantarium earum arboru[m], quas post hortos vulgus nostrum conserere solet. Final leaf a blank. Imprint from colophon.

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L'histoire des plantes mis en commentaires par Leonart Fuschs medecin tresrenomme : Et nouuellement traduict de Latin en Françoys, avec vraye obseruation de l'auteur, en telle diligence que pourra tesmogner ceste œuure presente

Fuchs, Leonhart (1501-1566); Arnoullet, Balthazar; Guéroult, Guillaume (1559)

1550

"Soit aduerty le lecteur que aux chapitres 208 et 210 les figures sont mises l'vne au lieu de lautre" - p.[7].

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Phytobasanos, sive, Plantarum aliquot historia : in qua describuntur diuersi generis plantae veriores, ac magis facie, viribúsque respondentes antiquorum Theophrasti, Dioscoridis, Plinij, Galeni, aliorúmque delineationibus, ab alijs hucusque non animadversae

Colonna, Fabio (1567-1650); Salviani, Orazio; Colonna, Fabio (1567-1650)

1592

First book with pictures of plants engraved on copper. First word of title transliterated from Greek type. Title vignette: Device of Orazio Salviani. Initials.

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The herball or generall historie of plantes

Gerard, John (1545-1612)

1597

p. 954 is numbered 950, and reads 'fist' for first in the twelth line from the bottom.

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The herball or generall historie of plantes

Gerard, John (1545-1612)

1597

p. 954 is numbered 950, and reads 'fist' for first in the twelth line from the bottom.

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De plantis libri XVI. Andreae Caesalpini Aretini, medici clarissimi, doctissimiq; atque philosophi celeberrimi, ac subtilissimi

Cesalpino, Andrea (1519-1603); Marescotti, Giorgio (fl. 1563-1601)

1583

Errata: p. [629]-[631]. Full page publisher's device p. [632]. Initials; head and tail pieces. Page 281 misnumbered 781. Publisher's device on t.p. Signatures: a-e⁴ A-4K⁴. Includes ind...

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The herball or generall historie of plantes

Gerard, John (1545-1612)

1597

p. 954 is numbered 950, and reads 'fist' for first in the twelth line from the bottom.

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Commentaires tres excellens de l'hystoire des plantes

Fuchs, Leonhart (1501-1566); Maignan, Eloi de

1549

Translated into Franch by "Eloy Maignan"; cf. Priuilege du Roy, leaf [2] verso.

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Theophrastou Peri phytōn historia

Theophrastus; Manuzio, Aldo (1515); Forbes, Duncan (1685-1747); Annandale, James Johnstone Marquess of (1730); Ashworth, Alfred; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

1497

Imprint from ISTC. For signatures see BMC. Table of contents (preliminary leaf) in Greek and Latin. Volume 1 of part 4 of Aldus' 5 part edition of the works of Aristotle (Greek) published in Ven...

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