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GERARD (JOHN)The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes... 1636; with Evelyn. Silva, 2 vol., 1801 (3)
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GERARD (JOHN)
The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes... Very Much Amended by Thomas Johnson, second edition, engraved pictorial title incorporating a portrait of the author, upwards of 2800 woodcut illustrations, lacks opening and final blanks and 3 leaves of text (4E3-4, pp.885-8), damp-stain to upper margin/text throughout, occasional light spotting, contemporary calf, small burn-mark at fore-edge of title and first leaf, unidentified armorial stamp on dedication leaf and verso of final preliminary leaf, rebacked in calf gilt, sides worn [ESTC S122175; Henrey 156; Hunt I, 230; Nissen BBI 698], small folio (340 x 220mm.), Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636--EVELYN (JOHN) Silva: A Discourse of Forest-trees... with Notes by A. Hunter, 2 vol., third edition, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume 1, 45 engraved plates (2 folding), contemporary calf, worn, covers detached, lacks spine labels, 4to, York, J. Mawman, 1801 (3)
Footnotes
Provenance: Samuel Addeley, ownership inscription dated 1675 on title. Three Bible quotations in an early hand added to the title, including "God made every plant & every herb of ye feild [sic] -Gen: 25".

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