[Rarebooks] FS: Gerard's HERBAL, 1636, with 2, 766 botanical woodcuts

[Charles Agvent]

 From our Fall Catalog of 60 New Arrivals now posted on our website: 
http://www.charlesagvent.com. It contains a fine miscellany, most of 
this caliber, in a variety of fields including Literature, Presidential, 
Hand-colored Plates, Autograph Letters, Early Printing, Americana, etc.

GERARDE [GERARD], John. [HERBAL] THE HERBALL OR GENERALL HISTORIE OF 
PLANTES. GATHERED BY JOHN GERARDE OF LONDON MASTER IN CHYRURGERIE Very 
Much Enlarged and Ammended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of 
London. London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1636. 
Third Edition. First published in 1597, this is the second edition 
edited by Thomas Johnson (a reprint of the 1633 edition) who corrected 
many of Gerard's errors and who improved the accuracy of the 
illustrations by using Plantin's woodcuts. Thick Folio (9" x 13") bound 
in full early calf sympathetically rebacked with a new red morocco spine 
label; (36), 30, (29)-30, (29)-1630, (48) pages with a list of errata on 
the verso of the last leaf. Illustrated with an engraved title page with 
a border of vignettes, decorative and historiated headpieces and 
initials, and 2,766 botanical woodcuts in the text describing over 2800 
plants. Original front blank endpaper replaced. Tasteful bookplate of 
Roger Gates on the front pastedown. Minor loss to the lower blank 
outside corner of the first dozen or so pages, not close to the text; 
title page with small repairs. Some old dampstaining, mostly marginal 
and mostly rather faint. Nice, clean copy of this important book. $7,500.00	
Hunt 223; Nissen 698; STC 11751.

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