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GERARD, JOHN. 1545-1612.:The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1636.
Folio (330 x 220 mm). Engraved title page, numerous woodcut illustrations. Contemporary calf, rebacked, with crudely repaired hinges. Heavily rubbed, lower joint cracked, lacking leaf 3r1, marginal dampstaining, worming and old repairs.
Provenance: Dr. Daniel Wills [Burlington County, NJ, 1633-1698] (ownership inscription); William R. Wills [Rancocas, NJ] (ownership inscription).
SECOND EDITION of Thomas Johnson\’s expanded version of 1633, which corrected many of the errors found in Gerard\’s original edition of 1597. Johnson\’s edition gave Gerard\’s work the importance that it holds in the history of botany. This example bears ownership inscriptions linking it to a colonial Quaker family in New Jersey. ESTC S122175; Henrey 156; Hunt I, 230; Nissen BBI 698.
杰勒德，约翰。1545-1612. 植物的草本或一般历史。伦敦：亚当·伊斯利普、乔·诺顿和理查德·惠特克斯，1636年。
