Author: Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Publisher:
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Category : Botanical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: Anne Van Arsdall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136613889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.

Author: Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781514155806
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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"The fairies have almost deserted us, but perhaps they will one day come back to our gardens and teach us that there is something true, though beyond what we can know, in the old astrological lore of the close secret communion between stars and flowers. Do not flowers seem to reflect in microscopic form those glorious flowers which deck the firmament of heaven? In many flowers there is something so star-like that almost unconsciously our minds connect them with the luminaries in the great expanse above us, and from this it seems but a short step to the belief that there is between them a secret communion which is past our understanding." The Old English Herbals, originally published in 1922, is a book about, in the author's words, "that fascinating and somewhat neglected branch of garden literature--the old English Herbals." At the time it was written, herb gardens were scarce; though the author's influence and books contributed to the growth we see in both herb and vegetable gardening today. Still of relevance and interest to modern gardeners, the book includes descriptions of Anglo-Saxon herbals, early printed herbals, herbals from "the New World," the history of the last great English herbalist John Parkinson, and late-seventeenth century herbals. "Offers a careful review of all the important herbals from the eighth to the seventeenth century." -Susan Wittig Albert, "China Bayles' Book of Days: 365 Celebrations of the Mystery, Myth, and Magic of Herbs From The World of Pecan Springs" "A careful and beautiful work on that curiously neglected branch of garden literature, the old English Herbals. It is all very fascinating. Readers who already possess Miss Rohde's first book, 'A Garden of Herbs,' will find here the same delicate perception for detail, and the same charming enthusiasm that attracted them there.....We cannot close this inadequate review of a notable volume without a word of praise for the admirable exhaustive bibliographies." -The Bookman, Volume 63, 1922

Author: Minta Collins
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802083135
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Collins shows how the principal herbal traditions of Classical descent were replaced by a new observation of nature that itself paved the way for the magnificent paintings of later French and Italian herbals.

Author: Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Publisher:
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Category : Cooking (Herbs)
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Author: Graeme Tobyn
Publisher: Singing Dragon
ISBN: 0857012592
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Presenting a valuable new angle for your phytotherapy practice, this book traces the uses of 27 vital plants through 2000 years of history. From Dioscorides and Trotula to the great Renaissance folios and up to present day, this book demonstrates how traditional usage can be transmuted into your current practice.

Author: Elizabeth Blackwell
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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Author: Nicholas Culpeper
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402744945
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Updated and illustrated in full color, this classic retains the charm and elegance of Culpeper's 17th-century text. "Beautiful, affordable and particularly relevant...identifies both medicinal virtues and modern uses of each plant. In addition to beautiful color illustrations to help with identification of each plant, readers can contrast the ideas of the 16th and 17th centuries [with] those of today."--"Alive."

Author: J. Richard Stracke
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004653260
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Agnes Robertson Arber
Publisher: Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press
ISBN:
Category : Botanical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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