Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Author: Nicholas Culpeper
Publisher: Union Square + ORM
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1454932880

An “updated and beautifully designed” edition of the classic book on herbal remedies (Booklist). For more than 360 years, Nicholas Culpeper’s historic guide to herbal remedies has been the definitive book on the subject. Culpeper, an English herbalist, is the author of the bestselling herbal guide of all time. He offered valuable and sometimes unusual advice on using, gathering, and preparing herbs. Now, this beautifully illustrated new edition, edited and with commentary by acclaimed US herbalist and bestselling author Steven Foster, combines the charm and information of Culpeper’s original seventeenth-century text with up-to-date, modern, practical usage, including details about where to find each herb, astrology, and medicinal benefits.

An Oak Spring Herbaria

An Oak Spring Herbaria
Author: Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0300241461

This magnificent compendium is the fourth in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection assembled by Mrs. Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon. Herbaria describes sixty-three books and manuscripts about herbs and includes exquisite illustrations selected from the works themselves. Spanning the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, and featuring works by Brunfels, Culpeper, Monardes, and Linnaeus, among others, this authoritative catalogue will prove fascinating to botanists, bibliophiles, garden historians, and herbalists alike.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician

Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician
Author: Nicholas Culpeper
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2007-12-15
Genre: Botany, Medical
ISBN: 1557090807

Nicholas Culpeper was a seventeenth-century English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. Published over 350 years ago as a practical health guide, The Complete Herbal (1653), is still the most complete and definitive herbal available today. It contains a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge, including herbs and where to find them, herb preparation, plasters, and much more.