"The Complete Herbal to which is now added upwards of One Hundred Additional Herbs, With a Display of Their Medicinal and Occult Qualities". Includes 20 pages of hand-coloured botanical illustrations.
Includes a comprehensive list of medicinal herbs, indexed to a list of typical illnesses, using an astrological approach. Culpeper provides proper preparations for different herbs including anemone, dittany, cottonweed, hemlock, beech-tree, tobacco, rhubarb, onions, garlic, hops, horseradish, mustard, apples, mint, parsnip, wheat, hazelnuts, fennel, oats and parsley, lavender, lettuce, roses, and hundreds more.
4to, pp. vi, 398, [4]. Later half leather binding, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece + 20 hand-coloured plates. Title page restored, some yellowing to internal pages but no foxing. Binding tight.
