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A New Herball by William Turner created in three parts in the second half of the 16th Century.

The description from the Cambridge University Press 1996 facsimile is that this herbal was the first English herbal with any pretensions to scientific status, provided a landmark in the history of botany and herbalism, breaking new ground in its accuracy of observation and its scientific thoroughness. Published with beautiful sixteenth-century black-letter text and woodcut illustrations.

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Facsimile of A New Herball by Cambridge University Press
* Year: 1996
* ISBN-13: 9780521477680
* Publisher: Cambridge University Press
* Volume Named: A New Herball
* Author(s): Anne Wesencraft, Frank McCombie, George T.L. Chapman, Marilyn N. Tweddle, William Turner
* Dimensions: 180mm x 300mm x 107mm

Volume 1: Acknowledgements; Preface; Introductory matter; A New Herball (Part I, 1551); Transcript; Glossary; Notes; Further reading; Index of Turner's chapter headings; Index of persons; Index of places; Index of Turner's English names; Index of modern English names; Index of scientific names; Index of virtues. Volume 2: Preface; William Turner: an assessment; A New Herball (Part II, 1562); Transcript; Notes to Part II; A New Herball (Part III, 1568); Transcript; Notes to Part III; Glossary; List of references; Index of Turner's chapter headings; Index of persons; Index of places; Index of Turner's English names; Index of modern English names; Index of scientific names; Index of virtues.

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