An “updated and beautifully designed” edition of the classic book on herbal remedies (Booklist). For more than 360 years, Nicholas Culpeper’s historic guide to herbal remedies has been the definitive book on the subject. Culpeper, an English herbalist, is the author of the bestselling herbal guide of all time. He offered valuable and sometimes unusual advice on using, gathering, and preparing herbs. Now, this beautifully illustrated new edition, edited and with commentary by acclaimed US herbalist and bestselling author Steven Foster, combines the charm and information of Culpeper’s original seventeenth-century text with up-to-date, modern, practical usage, including details about where to find each herb, astrology, and medicinal benefits.

More than 970 rare books, dating from 1479 to 1830 and covering such categories as gardening, herbals, botanical books and landscape architecture are catalogued in this bibliography.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) T301118 The work was issued in parts, probably with a printed blue paper wrapper per issue. Title and imprint taken from wrapper. Plates drawn by Sheldrake and engraved by C. H. Hemerich and J. Basire. 'This work will consist of about 400 folio copper-plates ... Three plates making one number ... This work ... will be delivered weekly, without intermission, every Thursday to the subscribers within the bills of mortality' -- Conditions on wrapper. Presumed date of publication from Henrey. Copy of a wrapper for issue no. 18 in John Johnson Collection (Bodleian Library) is dated: August 7 1755. [London]: Proposals are delivered and subscriptions taken by the author ... And by Messieurs Osborne and Shipton ... Millan, ... Manby, ... Brotherton, ... Owen, ... Shropshire, ... A. Linde, ... and other booksellers in town and country., [ca. 1755]. [2] p., [400] leaves of plates: ill. (col.); fol