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The herball : or, Generall historie of plantes
Epistle Dedicatorie [to Sir William Cecil, baron Burghley]--[Commendatory verse and prose, mainly in Latin]--To the courteous and well-willing Readers.--First booke of the Historie of Plants, containing Grasses, Rushes, Corne, Flags, Bulbose, or Onion-rooted Plants.--Second booke ... Containing the description, place, time, names, nature, and vertues of all sorts of herbs for meate, medicine, or sweete smelling vse, etc.--Third booke ... Containing Trees, Shrubs, bushes, Fruit-bearing plants, Rosins, Gums, Roses, Heath, Mosses: some Indian plants, and other rare plants ... Also Mushrooms, Corall, and their seuerall kindes, etc.--Index latinvs ... stirpivm.--Index nominum Herbarum, quibus Pharmacopolarum officinae, Barbari & Arabes vtuntur.--Nominvm/et opiniovin harmonia et consensus.--Table of the English names.--Supplement or appendix vnto the general Table, and to the Tables of English names: gathered.--Table, wherein is contained the Nature, Vertue, and Danger of all the Herbes, Trees and Plants., gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in Chirvrgerie., Colophon: Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, M.D.XCVII., Title, within elaborate engraved border, coat of arms of Lord Burghley on verso. Full page portaita of author facing p. 1, dated 1598., Signatures: (A4), B, Xxx, Aaaa-Tttt., Title page, illus. and initials colored by hand.