CULPEPER'S ENGLISH PHYSICIAN; AND COMPLETE HERBAL. TO WHICH ARE NOW FIRST ADDED UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED ADDITIONAL HERBS, WITH A DISPLAY OF THEIR MEDICINAL AND OCCULT PROPERTIES, PHYSICALLY APPLIED TO THE CURE OF ALL DISORDERS INCIDENT TO MANKIND. TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, RULES FOR COMPOUNDING MEDICINE ACCORDING TO THE TRUE SYSTEM OF NATURE: FORMING A COMPLETE FAMILY DISPENSATORY, AND NATURAL SYSTEM OF PHYSIC.
Book Details + Condition: Lewis and Hamblin & Champante and Witrow (London). Early Edition, 1808. Hardcover with marbled boards and three-quarters leather binding. 396 pages with Index. Profusely illustrated with the famous hand-colored engravings of medicinal plants. Culpeper's Complete Herbal includes additional illustrated examples of medicinal plants, with copious explanation of healing and occult properties by the author Ebenezer Sibly. The original version of Culpeper's English Physician and Complete Herbal was published in 1652, and did not originally include illustrations. In 1790, an illustrated version of the book was produced with drawings done by Ebenezer Sibly (1751 - 1799), an English physician, astrologer and ardent writer on the occult. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to marbled boards, with rubbing and fading present; boards appear to have been re-attached at some point (not unexpected, due to book's age and size); interior is clean and free of markings, save small stain (tea??) to lower corner of pp 237-321.
