Full title: Botanicum medicinale; an herbal of medicinal plants on the College of Physicians list. [electronic resource] : Describing their places of growth, roots, bark, leaves, buds, time of flowering, blossoms, flowers, stiles, chives, embrio's, fruits, farina, colours, seeds, kernels, seed-vessels, parts used in medicine, preparations in the shops, medicinal virtues, names in nine languages. Most beautifully engraved on 118 large folio copper-plates, from the exquisite drawings of the late ingenious T. Sheldrake. English plants are drawn from nature to the greatest accuracy, flowers, or parts, too small to be distinguished, are magnified. Nothing in any language exceeds this thirty years laborious work, of which it may truly be said that nature only equals it, every thing of the kind, hitherto attempted, being trivial, compared to this inimitable performance. Designed to promote botanical knowledge, prevent mistakes in the use of simples in compounding and preparing medicines, to illustrate, and render such herbals as want the just representations in their proper figures and colours more useful. Necessary to such as practise physic, pharmacy, chemistry, &c. entertaining to the curious, the divine and philosopher, in contemplating these wonderful productions,-useful to painters, heralds, carvers, designers, gardeners, &c. The colours of every part are minutely described; for utility it must be esteemed preferable to any hortus siccus extant. The means to preserve fruits, and dry flowers, in their native form and colour, are not yet discovered; plants cannot be preserved to perfection. The flowers when coloured, are represented in their original bloom, and fruits in the inviting charms of maturity. To which now is added, his tables for finding the heat and cold in all climates, that exotie plants may be raised in summer, and preserved in winter.

Author/creator: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Sheldrake, Timothy, -1770.

Date: [1768?].

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Record Identifier: 74VKp840eJBA

Language: English

Formats: ebooks

Contents: [2]p.,plates,table ; 2°.

Publishers: London : Printed for J. Millan, opposite the Admiralty, Whitehall, [1768?]

Access: Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.

Notes: Brace(s) in title or imprint. Originally issued in parts. Plates arranged alphabetically in order of English names, numbered 1-73, 73*, 74-117; drawn by Sheldrake and engraved by C. H. Hemerich and J. Basire. Presumed date of publication from advertisements on titlepage. Price on title page: Price coloured, unbound Royal-600 small-400 plain 300 220 where may be had, 1 The causes of heat and cold in all climates, 1s. 2 Norwich Gothic Cross, 1s. Both by T. Sheldrake. Just published, Jacobi petiveri opera historiam naturalern spectantia, containing several thousand figures of birds, beasts, fishes, reptiles, insects, shells, corals, and fossils; also of trees, shrubs, herbs, fruits, fungusses, mosses, sea-weeds from all parts, on above 300 copper-plates, with English and Latin names. The shells have English, Latin, and native names, to which are added 100 plates, and 17 curious tracts never before published, in folio, 6l. 6s. 2d, Catesby's Hortus Americanus, containing 85 curious trees, shrubs, &c. ... Reproduction of original from British Library. The table, entitled: 'The gardener's best companion in a green-house; or, tables, shewing the greatest heat and cold of all countries from which exotic plants are brought', was originally published separately. With an index and list of advertisements.

Citation / references note: ESTC T81691. Henrey, 1313.

Additional physical form availability note: Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

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