Describes many of the ancient and modern uses of and beliefs about various medicinal plants. Includes history, information from old herbals, and quotations from literature. Illustrated with sixteenth century woodcuts.
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Describes many of the ancient and modern uses of and beliefs about various medicinal plants. Includes history, information from old herbals, and quotations from literature. Illustrated with sixteenth century woodcuts.
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First Paperback Edition. 4to. Large format paperback. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Describes many of the ancient and modern uses of and beliefs about various medicinal plants. Includes history, information from old herbals, and quotations from literature. Illustrated with sixteenth century woodcuts. ISBN: 9780714817545 Pages: 255 Very good.
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Good in Fair jacket. Size: 9" x 12 1/4"; GOOD/DJ FAIR Former library book. 246 pp. Text clean and unmarked except for usual library treatments. Gray cloth boards with gold lettering on spine in good condition. Dust jacket in archival cover in fair condition. Binding firm.
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Very GOOD in CLIPPED-ACCEPTABLE jacket. Size: 12x10x1; Unmarked hardcover in Clipped jacket. 116 full-page woodcut reproductions. Large book 12 5/8 x 9 3/8 x 1 1/4 inches. Top page edges tinted brown, lower edges have light foxing. Dust jacket and both rear cover paper-wrapped board edges have been nibbled on but pages are in very good condition. The boards have the same orange and green paper design 3/4 with a green cloth 1/4 spine.
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4to, pp. 255. Bibliography, index. With reproductions of 106 woodcuts generally attributed to Giorgio Liberale and Wolfgang Meyerpeck. Paper wraps. Cover slightly soiled and scuffed, top edge slightly bumped, o/w a nice copy. Krutch examines the theories and discoveries of herbalists from ancient times to the present.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Green on green cloth boards with gilt lettering. FIRST UK EDITION. Numerous full page illustrations. The price-clipped DJ has several tears up to 3 cm. and six chips up to 2 cm. 255 pages.
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4to, hardcover. Vg+ condition in good dj. NOT ex-library. Contents bright & clean, binding tight; dj has several 1-inch to 4-inch edge-chips and tears. 255 pp., illus.
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4to, hardcover. Vg condition in good dj. Contents bright & clean, binding tight; dj moderately browned, small nicks around edges, 1-inch stain at corner of cover. 255 p., illus.
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Theories of herbalists from ancient to present times. Witty decriptions accompany reproductions of 16th-century woodcuts of 100 plants and 6 creatures. --Hardcover, pretty design printed covers, 255 pages, 9.5x12.5 inches. Condition: very good minus (outer pages and edge are spotted, but the pages and plates are bright and clear) with very good minus dust jacket (strip of tanning; flap clipped but price remains; edgewear).