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A Chronology Of Herbals I/ii
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- Old Herbals -
Date Author Title Comments 350 BC
Theophrastus _Enquiry into Plants_ 1928 English
translation by Putnam.
AD 78 Pliny the Second _Natural History_ First translated by
Philomon Holland,
Bostwick & Riley
translation, London,
1887-1900.
AD 100 Dioscorides _De Materia Medica_ A principal textbook
for 1300 years.
Reprinted 1938.
1525 Richard Banckes _Banckes's Herbal_ 1st herbal printed in
English, London.
Reprinted 1941 NY
Botanical Garden.
Went through 20
editions.
1528 William Turner _Herbal_ Reprinted 1877 by E.D.
Jackson & in 1965 by
the Ray Society,
London.
1597 John Gerard _The Herball_ Current value abt.
$4,000. Reprinted
1633 by Thos. Johnson
(current value abt.
$3,000) & 1927 by
Marcus Woodward.
Recent Dover
Publications reprint.
1599 Richard Gardiner _Profitable Instructions
for Kitchen Gardens_
1629 John Parkinson _Paradisi in Sole, Facsimile ed. 1904 by
Paradisus Terrestris_ Aberdeen Press
(current value abt.
$300). Dover
Publications recent
reprint.
1651 Nicholas Culpeper _The English Family Reprinted in 2
Physician_ volumes, 1792
(current value abt.
$300/volume).
1656 William Coles _The Art of Simpling_ Reprinted 1938.
1657 William Coles _Adam in Eden_ Current value abt.
$1700.
1658 John Evelyn _The French Gardener_
1672 John Josselyn _New-Englands Rarities Reprinted 1865, 1972.
Discovered_
1677 Nicolas Monardes _Joyfull News Out of First herbal of herbs
the Newe Found Worlde_ of the Americas.
Reprinted 1925.
1699 John Evelyn _Acetaria, A Discourse Reprint 1937.
of Sallets_
1737 Eliz. Blackwell _A Curious Herball_ Two volumes.
1755 Sir John Hill _The Useful Family
Herbal_
From Christine Wittmann's "Pages from the Past" article in "The Herb
Companion." Dec. 1992/Jan. 1993, Vol. 5, No. 2. Pg. 54.
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