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Theatrum botanicvm = The theater of plants, or, An herball of large extent : containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants ... distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property ... / collected ... by John Parkinson ...
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Title:Theatrum botanicvm = The theater of plants, or, An herball of large extent : containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants ... distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property ... / collected ... by John Parkinson ...
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Variant Title:Theatrum botanicum
Herball of a large extent
Theater of plants
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Author/Creator:Parkinson, John, 1567-1650, author.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Sinclair, Hugh M. (Hugh Macdonald), 1910-1990, former owner
Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712. Musaeum Regalis Societatis.
Cotes, Thomas, -1641, printer.
William C. Gibson History of Medicine and Science Collection.
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Published/Created:London : Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640.
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Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Memorial medium oversizeWhere is this?
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Call Number: QK41 .P37 1640
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Memorial medium oversizeWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Botany--Pre-Linnean works.
Herbals--Early works to 1800.
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Description:[18], 1,755 [i.e. 1,745], [3] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 35 cm (fol.)
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Local note:UBC library has a copy with the following pagination errors: pages 132-133 repeated, pages 142-143 and 1653-1662 omitted; pages 311, 314, 608 and 729 misnumbered 310,318. 908 and 727 respectively. Includes some hand-colouring of illustrations and numerous handwritten annotations referencing page numbers from Nehemiah Grew's: Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or, A catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge.
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Notes:Added engraved t.p.
Includes numerous errors in pagination. Pages 1653-1662 omitted.
Signatures: pi⁴(pi4+chi1) (a)⁴ B-4L⁶ 4M⁴ 4N-7I⁶.
Errata leaf: p. [2-3] at end.
Includes indexes.
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Cited in:STC (2nd ed.) 19302
Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson 1062
Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 355-356