B: Herbal Or General History Of Plants (1597)

 

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Part-i-iii (1633) by John Gerard

John Gerard's Herbal or General History of Plants has long been the most famous English herbal. First published in 1597, it was republished in 1633 in an edition in which Thomas Johnson revised and enlarged the original text

John Gerard, also spelt John Gerarde, (c. 1545–1612) was a botanist and herbalist. He maintained a large herbal garden in London. His chief notability is as the author of a large (1,484 pages) illustrated Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes. First published in 1597, it was the most widely circulated botany book in English in the 17th century. Except for the additions of a number of plants from his own garden and from North America, Gerard's Herbal is largely an unacknowledged English translation of Rembert Dodoens's herbal originally published in 1554, itself also highly popular (in Dutch, Latin, French and other English translations).

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Preferred Link:
https://ia600807.us.archive.org/25/items/herballorgeneral00gera/herballorgeneral00gera.pdf

https://ia801605.us.archive.org/14/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.18867/2015.18867.Herball-Or-General-History-Of-Plants-Part-i-iii-1633_text.pdf