Stock ID #176062 [Botanical Engraving of Two Kinds of Gromell or Gromwell Plants]. BOTANICAL ENGRAVING, JOHN GERARD.
[Botanical Engraving of Two Kinds of Gromell or Gromwell Plants]

[Botanical Engraving of Two Kinds of Gromell or Gromwell Plants]

[London]. [ 1633]. Stock ID #176062

Original black and white botanical engravings on a folio leaf, laid paper 34.6 x 23 cm, with explanatory text, edges age-toned, but in very good condition.

Handsome engravings of Gromell or Gromwell plants (borage), with text noting its medicinal use "especially [to] breaketh the stone in the bladder". Issued in John Gerard's compendious and influential " Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes" first published in 1597 with illustrations after woodcuts by Plantin (and others); this from the enlarged second edition published in 1633.

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