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The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Healing Remedies
by C Norman Shealy
To meet public’s demands for more and better information on alternative therapies, Element is adding a new volume to its popular illustrated health reference library.The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Healing Remedies provides a chapter on each of the eight major alternative therapies: ayurveda, aromatherapy, flower essences, Chinese herbal medicine, herbal medicine, vitamins and minerals, homeopathy and folk remedies. Written by experts in each field, this full-color illustrated book explains everything...
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The Native American Herbalist's Bible 1 the Forgotten Art Of the Ancestors Of Medicine
by Linda Osceola Naranjo
Herbal Medicine Books & Ephemera
Domestic Medicine: or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines. With an appendix containing a dispensatory for the use of private practicioners
by Buchan, William
The Strand, London & Edinburgh: A.Strahan; T.Cadell; J. Balfour & W. Creech, 1791. Twelfth edition.Thick octavo, pp xxxvi, 712, [36], a little age-toned with slight foxing, lacking the front endpaper, contemporary half calf rather worn rubbed and scuffed, the upper joint cracked but firm, the spine head rather worn. . Full-Leather. Good.
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A$145.36
Pharmaceutical Formulas being a supplementary volume comprising a consolidation of the Medicine-stamp Acts (with historical notes), formulas for known, admitted, and approved remedies, an Australian hospitals formulary and many other recipes
London, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney: Offices of The Chemist and Druggust, 1904. Sixth edition. Small thick octavo, pp viii, 648, the fore-edge age-toned with slight foxing, the title page browned, otherwise clean and tight internally, black blind-stamped buckram, slightly rubbed. . Buckram. Very Good.
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A$38.76
Guide to Medicinal Plants
by Schauenberg, Paul & Paris, Ferdinand
Guildford & London: Lutterworth Press, 1977. Illustrated, small octavo, pp 349, top edge foxed, fore-edge slightly foxed, green cloth very good, a good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper.. First English edition. Cloth. Good/Very Slightly Worn.
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A$12.60
Aloe Socoterina vera. Aloe succotrin.; N. 44
by WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm
Regensburg: H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer. unbound. Botanical. Color mezzotint with hand coloring. Page measures 16.25" x 10.5".<br/> <br/> Striking depiction of the aloe plant in a vessel from the four-volume study of flowers and plants, "Phytanthoza Iconographia" edited by Johann Weinmann between 1737 and 1745. Both accurate and beautiful, these prints were the first botanical color mezzotints, a revolutionary method that allowed for subtlety and detail. Weinmann...
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A$697.23
And Some Brought Flowers - Plants in a New World
by Downie, Mary Ellice & Hamilton, Mary (editors)
University of Toronto Press, 1980. Illustrated with delicate watercolours by E.J. Revell, large octavo, pp xvi, 164, fore-edge slightly foxed, otherwise very clean internally, decorated cream cloth, very slightly marked, a good copy in a slightly worn and age-toned dustwrapper. [Aspects of the flora of North America, particularly Canada, as perceived by the early settlers, using contenporary accounts. When Martin Frobisher reached the coast of North America in 1576 'he commanded his company, if by...
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A$19.38
An Exhibition of Flower Books From the Society of Herbalists
by Stearn, W.T. (text); Blunt, Wilfred (introduction); James, Philip (foreword)
London: The Arts Council of England, 1953. Small tall 12mo, (measures 110mm x 190mm), pp (8), 48, very clean internally, paperback, covers slightly age-toned, but otherwise a very good copy.. [Vignette title page, colophon illustration, but no others.]. [Postage will be reduced]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.
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A$7.75
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[Plate 58] The British Herbal
by HILL, John; ROBERTS, H
London: T. Osborn & J. Shipton, 1756. unbound. Original botanical print. Engraving with hand coloring. Plate measures 14 5/8" x 9"<br> Engraved by H. Roberts. London: T. Osborn & J. Shipton, 1756.<br/> <br/> A plate of 18 plants, including dropwort, parsley, caraway, saxifrage, and hemlock. From 'The British Herbal: An history of plants and trees, natives of Britain, cultivated for use, or raised for Beauty.' <br> <br> John Hill was an English...
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A$154.94
An Herbarium for the Fair, Being a Book of Common Herbs with Etchings By Betty Shaw-Lawrence. Together with Curious Notes on Their Histories and Uses for the Furtherance of Loveliness and Love.
by Fassam, Thomas
London: The Hand & Flower Press, 1949. Illustrated with twenty delightful etched plates, each one signed in pencil by Betty Shaw-Lawrence, small quarto, pp 90, (2), a decorated title page engraved by Alfred Richard Lane, top edge gilt, the other edges untrimmed, half-morocco and boards, a slight fading to the spine, otherwise a very good copy. Limited edition of 260 copies numbered and signed, printed at the Ditchling Press - this one being number 12. [From the library of the Kew botanist Vicki...
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A$484.55
![COMMENTARII SECUNDO AUCTI, IN LIBROS SEX PEDACII DIOSCORIDIS ANAZARBEI DE MEDICA MATERIA [with APOLOGIA ADVERSUS AMATHUM LUSITANUM]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/637/091/1171091637.0.b.jpg)
COMMENTARII SECUNDO AUCTI, IN LIBROS SEX PEDACII DIOSCORIDIS ANAZARBEI DE MEDICA MATERIA [with APOLOGIA ADVERSUS AMATHUM LUSITANUM]
by MATTIOLI, Pietro Andrea
Venice: Officina Valgrisiana, 1559. Third Edition in Latin. Hardcover. Old partly scored inscriptions on title page, occasionally heavy marginal soiling and stains, scattered early underscoring, clean tear in 2G6, crude marginal restoration on last two leaves. Scratch to front cover. Very Good example of this important and well-illustrated early herbal. Folio in sixes (8-1/2" x 12-1/2") in modern leather; [98] (of [100]), 776; 46, [2] pages, including last leaf with printer's device on verso; lacks...
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A$8,715.38
Women's Health in Women's Hands
by Cooper, Deborah
Sydney: Random House Australia. 1995. Very Good condition. Sepia coloured print & illustrations. Mild age-toning to page edges. 288 pages. The author draws on her experience as a naturopath and herbalist to show how herbs, nutritious foods and a range of traditional natural therapies can be used effectively and safely in women's health care. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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A$20.00
Woodland Nuggets of Gold - the story of American Ginseng cultivation
by Hardacre, Val
Northville, Michigan: Holland House Press, 1974. Second edition, revised and enlarged. A few illustrations, octavo, pp 331, very clean internally, red cloth in very good condition, a very good copy in a slightly rubbed dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE.. Second edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly rubbed.
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A$48.46
The Garden of Health: containing the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants. Together with the manner how they are to bee used and applied in medicine for the health of mans body, against divers diseases
by Langham, William
London: Thomas Harper, 1633. Thick square octavo, pp (6), 702, (66), printed in black letter. The title page is mounted and heavily restored from a much earlier time; it is age-toned and there is much staining of the surface, possibly from the glue used to repair ? The first few pages are fragile at the leading edge and lacking a few small pieces; the remaining pages are age-toned and occasionally slightly marked or stained, certainly used but overall quite sound with no tears or loss. Later calf with...
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A$3,779.49
Aletris Hyaccinthoides with Aloe pumila; N. 75
by WEINMANN, Johann Wilhelm
Regensburg: H. Lentz and H.G. Neubauer. unbound. Botanical. Color mezzotint with hand coloring. Page measures 16.25" x 10.5".<br/> <br/> Profile of a hyacinth plant with an aloe plant in an urn from the four-volume study of flowers and plants, "Phytanthoza Iconographia" edited by Johann Weinmann between 1737 and 1745. Both accurate and beautiful, these prints were the first botanical color mezzotints, a revolutionary method that allowed for subtlety and detail. Weinmann...
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A$619.76
Herbarum imagines vivae = Der Kreuter lebliche Contrafaytung
by Egenolff, Christian
Editions Medicina Rara Ltd Not dated (1977 ? or later ?). A facsimile of the 1535 Frankfurt edition. Small octavo, illustrated with many woodcuts, not paginated (pp 88), extremely clean internally, bound in marbled paper covered boards, in very good condition. In a velour-lined sheepskin box, one of three hundred copies bound thus, this copy being number XCIII. [From the library of the botanist and garden historian Anthony Hucley, with his stamp on the front endpaper.]. Boards, in box. Very Good.
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A$116.29
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Stress: The Aromatic Solution [How Aromatherapy Can Relieve Stress and Stress-Related Conditions].
by Maggie Tisserand
London, UK Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows several faint creases at backstrip; just a hint of rubbing at the top of the front hinge; binding shows barely discernible lean, but remains perfectly secure; text clean. Despite minor defects as noted, a 'nearly new' copy of this scarce title. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 277pp. Line illustrations. Trade Paperback.
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A$30.37
Plants of Life, Plants of Death
by Simoons, Frederick J
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. A very few illustrations, thick octavo, pp xviii, 568, very clean internally, paperback, a very good copy. ["This study examines plants associated with ritual purity, fertility, prosperity and life, and plants associated with ritual impurity, sickness, ill fate and death. It provides detail from history, ethnography, religious studies, classics, folklore, ethnobotany and medicine."]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.
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A$77.53
Medical Flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America : containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c. : and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes
by Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel)
Philadelphia: Atkinson and Alexander, 1830. First edition. Two volumes, uncut in period style quarter green morocco. 7-1/4 x 4-1/4 inches, xii, 268, 276 pp. 100 woodcut plates printed in green, with plates 50 and 53 (the last in v. 1 and the first in v. 2) provided in excellent facsimile. Fine condition. "Beginning in 1818, with his 2,000-mile tour to the west of the Alleghenies, Rafinesque made important botanical explorations, mostly on foot, as far as Kentucky and Illinois" (DSB). "Rafinesque was a...
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A$3,873.50
Chronicles of Pharmacy, Volume II only
by Wootton, A.C
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1910. Illustrated, pp (4), 332, slightly age-toned internally but otherwise clean and sound, cloth faded and slightly worn and marked, lacking a small portion of the cloth on the rear lower joint. [Include animals in pharmacy, Shakespeare's pharmacy, some noted drugs and nostrums, poisons in history, pharmacy in the nineteenth century, pharmacopoeias etc.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good.
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A$14.54
A Colour Atlas of Nutritional Disorders
by Donald Stewart McLaren
1981 hardcover as pictured. As the title indicates, this is an atlas of physical findings associated with various nutritional diseases. This copy is in good shape, the photographs retain their vivid coloration. Binding is firm. Pictorial boards are clean with minimal shelf wear. Slight discoloration on title page left from a sticker. Text appears otherwise clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR
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A$60.43
A Rhyming Alphabet of Medicinal Plants
by Oakeley, Henry
Beckenham: Henry Oakeley, 2016. Illustrated, slim square octavo, pp 42, paperback. NEW. ["An A to Z of rhymes (witty) and wisdom (useful) on medicinal plants and people. Beautiful 16th & 17th century woodcuts (some rude). A perfect present."]. J is for juniper, it's used to flavour gin, an aid to disinhibition and faciliating sin. R is for ranunculus, it always causes smiles, for the knobbly rootstock, was used to cure one's piles.. First Edition. Paperback. New.
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A$5.80
A Family Herbal: Or Familiar Account of the Medical Properties of British and Foreign Plants Also Their Uses in Dying, and the Various Arts, Arranged According to the Linnaean System
by Thornton, Robert John
Stationer's Court, Ludgate Street: B. & R. Crosby & Co., 1814. Second edition, "considerably enlarged and improved." With an engraved portrait frontispiece, and with 258 engravings of plants drawn by Henderson and engraved by Thomas Bewick, thick octavo, pp xxviii, 902, [13], [lacking one leaf of the index and with several leaves neatly repaired], a small adhesion spot to the frontispiece and the title page has led to slight loss of surface to both, generally clean and tight...
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A$484.55
Index Stirpium Hortus Botanicus (the first plan of Leiden Botanic Garden)
by Clusius. Cluyt
Originally drawn up in1594, the year of its creation, this is a poorly produced photo copy of the original manuscript, paperback, ring-bound. It is not clear if this was ever issued for sale, or if it has been produced privately. [The drawings of this first garden plan have been preserved in Leiden University Library, and include a list of the plants in each numbered section. This reveals that there were not only medicinal plants in the garden but anything on which Clusius and Cluyt could lay their...
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A$19.38
Flora Medica Universale e Flora Particolare della Provincia di Napoli
by Tenore, Cavaliere (Michele)
Napoli: Giornale Enciclopedico di Napoli, 1823. Two volumes, octavo, pp 620; 178, 44, exceptionally clean internally, the front hinge cracked in the first volume but no weakness, contemporary half calf and cloth, a little scuffed and slightly worn, marbeld endpapers. [The second issue of the first volume ?] RARE. [Tenore was an Italian botanist with extensive publications. He helped establish the Botanical Garden of Naples, and became its director in 1810. He also served as president of the Accademia...
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A$358.57
Turkish Folk Medicinal Plants parts V, VI, VII. + Contribution to Traditional Medicine in Western Anatolia
by TUZLACI, G.; EMRE BULUTUT, G.; SADIKLOGU,. E. ; ALPARSLAN, D.F.; ASLAN, A. (et al)
Istanbul: Istanbul Universitesi, 2008. Articles of 55 pages contained in the complete edition of Journal of Faculty Pharmacy of Istanbul University, Volume 39. Very good condition, octavo, paperback.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.
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A$12.60
Handbook of Chinese Herbal Formulas
by Him-che Yeung
Scarce superior second edition. White and green paper covered wraps. No previous owners' names or other markings.
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A$247.90
