290 LISTER : HERBALS AND ANCIENT BOOKS ON BOTANY.
This second edition of Gerard's ''Herball" is that quoted by
Linnaeus. In it numerous errors are corrected and the whole
work, much enlarged and transformed by Johnson, rose to a
higher grade of value.
[Lent by the Librarian of the Essex Field Club]
Parkinson's "Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terristris.
A Garden of all sortes of pleasant flowers which our English
ayre will permitt to be noursed up. . . ." London,
Printed, by Humphrey Lownes and Robert Young at the
signe of the Starre on Bread-street hill. 1629.
Folio.
The title "Paradisus in Sole" is a pun on Parkinson's name.
The work is rather of the nature of a gardening book than of
a herbal. It is illustrated with full-page wood engravings, in
each of which a number of different plants are represented.
The figures are partly original and partly copied from the books
of de 1'Ecluse, de I'Obel, and others.
[Lent by Miss Willmott]
Nicholas Culpeper.
"The English Physitian enlarged. . . " 1656.
[Lent by Mrs. Lister]
Robert Morison's "Historia Plantarum Universalis
Oxoniensis" 1699.
In two folio volumes.
Morison was the first professor of botany to the University
of Oxford. His great book was unfinished when he died, as
the result of an accident, in 1683. It consisted of three parts,
of which the first has never teen published ; the second appeared
in 1680. The third part was completed and brought out by
Jacob Bobart the younger, Keeper of the Physic Garden in
Oxford.
[Lent by the Librarian of the Essex Field Club]
"Hortus Medicus Edinburgensis,"
by Jacob Sutherland. Edinburgh Anno 1683.
Small 8vo.
The book consists of an alphabetical list of the Latin names
of medical plants, with references to the works of previous
authors, and with the English names added.
[Lent by Miss Willmott]