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Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654) wrote his herbal in English for ordinary households, and he gave nearly every plant a ruling planet. This plate comes from the 1792 London edition, "medicinally and astrologically arranged, after the manner of Culpeper" by the physician Joshua Hamilton, who enlarged it with several hundred plants taken mainly from Sir John Hill. We have had it matted and framed.
The plate shows Sea Chamomile, Anthemis Maritima ("Sea Chamæmile" in the engraved caption), sprawling across the sheet in branching sprays of fine-cut leaves and small daisy-like flowers. The book calls it "a very pretty creeping plant" of damp ground near the sea, whose flowers coastal people steeped for agues, though "their virtues are very inferior to the sweet scented Camomile." In the entry just before it, on the common Camomile, Culpeper's own voice comes through: "the Egyptians dedicated it to the Sun, because it cured agues; and they were like enough to do it, for they were the arrantest apes in their religion that I ever read of."
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616–1654), and Joshua HAMILTON. Culpeper's English Family Physician... London: Printed for W. Locke, 1792. Volume 1. A single engraved plate, Anthemis, illustrating p. 221.
Physical Description: A single uncolored engraved plate from an octavo volume, 21 x 13 cm (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.). Captioned "Anthemis" at the head and "Anthemis Maritima, Sea Chamæmile" below.
Framing: Window-mounted under a white archival mat in a slim dark wood-grain frame, under glass. The frame measures 11 x 9 inches.
Condition: Spotting and browning to the paper; edges chipped, the right edge ragged. All four edges of the plate show within the mat window.
About our leaves. We sell leaves only from books that came to us already incomplete or damaged beyond reasonable restoration. We never break a complete copy. Each source book is an edition that survives in multiple copies in public collections. Anything of evidential value, such as a notable binding, an inscription or annotations, stays intact. We record the whole copy before it is dispersed. Where there is any doubt whether a book meets these standards, we consult an outside senior bookseller or conservator before proceeding. Source of this leaf: Nicholas Culpeper and Joshua Hamilton, Culpeper's English Family Physician, vol. 1, London: W. Locke, 1792 (ESTC T136362), an odd first volume without its second, disbound with the binding split and heavily foxed.
Shipping: Included in the price within the US. Framed pieces ship double-boxed and padded, with the glass protected, separately from our sleeved leaves.
The price includes shipping within the US.
Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654) wrote his herbal in English for ordinary households, and he gave nearly every plant a ruling planet. This plate comes from the 1792 London edition, "medicinally and astrologically arranged, after the manner of Culpeper" by the physician Joshua Hamilton, who enlarged it with several hundred plants taken mainly from Sir John Hill. We have had it matted and framed.
The plate shows Sea Chamomile, Anthemis Maritima ("Sea Chamæmile" in the engraved caption), sprawling across the sheet in branching sprays of fine-cut leaves and small daisy-like flowers. The book calls it "a very pretty creeping plant" of damp ground near the sea, whose flowers coastal people steeped for agues, though "their virtues are very inferior to the sweet scented Camomile." In the entry just before it, on the common Camomile, Culpeper's own voice comes through: "the Egyptians dedicated it to the Sun, because it cured agues; and they were like enough to do it, for they were the arrantest apes in their religion that I ever read of."
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616–1654), and Joshua HAMILTON. Culpeper's English Family Physician... London: Printed for W. Locke, 1792. Volume 1. A single engraved plate, Anthemis, illustrating p. 221.
Physical Description: A single uncolored engraved plate from an octavo volume, 21 x 13 cm (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.). Captioned "Anthemis" at the head and "Anthemis Maritima, Sea Chamæmile" below.
Framing: Window-mounted under a white archival mat in a slim dark wood-grain frame, under glass. The frame measures 11 x 9 inches.
Condition: Spotting and browning to the paper; edges chipped, the right edge ragged. All four edges of the plate show within the mat window.
About our leaves. We sell leaves only from books that came to us already incomplete or damaged beyond reasonable restoration. We never break a complete copy. Each source book is an edition that survives in multiple copies in public collections. Anything of evidential value, such as a notable binding, an inscription or annotations, stays intact. We record the whole copy before it is dispersed. Where there is any doubt whether a book meets these standards, we consult an outside senior bookseller or conservator before proceeding. Source of this leaf: Nicholas Culpeper and Joshua Hamilton, Culpeper's English Family Physician, vol. 1, London: W. Locke, 1792 (ESTC T136362), an odd first volume without its second, disbound with the binding split and heavily foxed.
Shipping: Included in the price within the US. Framed pieces ship double-boxed and padded, with the glass protected, separately from our sleeved leaves.
