The compleat herbal: or, The botanical institutions of Mr. Tournefort, chief botanist to the late French king. Carefully translated from the original Latin. With large additions from Ray, Gerarde, Parkinson, and others, the most celebrated moderns. To which are added, two alphabetical indexes; one, containing the names, the other, the physical vertues and uses of the several plants. Illustrated with about five hundred copper plates, containing above four thousand different figures, all curiously engraven. A work highly instructive, and of general use. ... With a short account of the life and writings of the author

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  • The compleat herbal: or, The botanical institutions of Mr. Tournefort, chief botanist to the late French king. Carefully translated from the original Latin. With large additions from Ray, Gerarde, Parkinson, and others, the most celebrated moderns. To which are added, two alphabetical indexes; one, containing the names, the other, the physical vertues and uses of the several plants. Illustrated with about five hundred copper plates, containing above four thousand different figures, all curiously engraven. A work highly instructive, and of general use. ... With a short account of the life and writings of the author
  • 'El'emens de botanique. English
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Imprint
London : printed for R. Bonwicke, Tim. Goodwin, John Walthoe, S. Wotton, Sam. Manship, Rich. Wilkin, Benj. Tooke, Ralph Smith and Tho. Ward; and are to be sold by J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, [1716]-MDCCXXX. [1730].
Added name
Nutt, John, printer.
Publication year
1716-1730
ESTC No.
T121704
Grub Street ID
172463
Description
2 v., plates ; 4°.
Note
Published in parts from 1716

Some copies may retain the part title pages; the title page to the first part "Number I." bears the imprint: In the Savoy: printed by John Nutt, and sold by J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, and most booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland, 1716

The title page to Vol.1 is dated 1719; the title page to Vol.2 bears the imprint: London: printed for J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, J. and J. Bonwicke, S. Birt, T. Ward and E. Wicksteed, MDCCXXX [1730]

Translated by John Martyn.