Thornton's Herbal (1814)

A Family Herbal or Familiar Account of The Medical Properties of British and Foreign Plants, also their use in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnaean System.
By Robert John Thornton M.D.
Member of the University of Cambridge and the Royal London College of Physicians; Lecturer on Botany at Guy’s Hospital; Author of a Grammar of Botany, The Philosophy of Medicine.

Second Edition (enlarged and improved).
258 hand coloured copperplate engravings.
Rebound.
Owner’s name in pen.
Several pencil annotations.

155mm x 228mm x 55mm

R6,000