SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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[BOTANY]
The Cyclopaedia of Botany or a History and description of all plants British or Foreign forming a complete book of Herbs and Family Herbal.

Richard Brook's interesting product provides a systematic herbal for family use, copiously illustrated with hand-coloured plates. The frontispiece of a Victorian version of Flora is particularly charming. It does appear to contain some original material based on fieldwork. Brook didn't date his works, but this edition is probably from the 1840s, the original Cyclopaedia of Botany having appeared around 1825. Another London publisher produced versions of this book in 1854 and about 1860. Brook also issued his New Family Herbal in various editions.

Published
Huddersfield: printed by R. Brook, nd [1840]
Plates
100
Binding/Size
S=8vo
Value
0-5000
Published
Huddersfield: printed by R. Brook, nd [1840]
Ref
157

97 hand-coloured plates, bound without plate 53. Half brown leather over diced boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled edges, fresh hinges, reinforced corners, etc. Prelims foxed. Spine rubbed and worn. Contents with mild foxing throughout. Rebinding and restoration work on this book was carried out by Ron Norman of Hartlepool (Ronnorn@aol.com) Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. Flora. 2. Title page vignette. 3. The Classes [of Linnaeus]. Monandria / Diandria / Triandria / Tetrandria / Pentandria / Hexandria / Heptandria / Dodecandria / Octandria / Enneandria / Decandria / Icosandria / Polyandria. 4. [The Classes] Of Linnaeus. Didynamia / Tetradynamia / Monadelphia / Diadelphia / Polydelphia / Syngenesia / Cynandria / Monoecia / Dioecia / Polygamia / Cryptogamia. 5. Cardamom / Turmeric / Ginger / Glasswort / Mare's Tail / European Olive. 6. Enchanters Nightshade / Hedge Hyssop / Rosemary / Sage / Speedwell / Black Pepper. 7. Walerian / Saffron Crocus / Florentine Iris / Bearded Darnel / Sugar Cane / Soft Brome Grass. 8. Annual Meadow Grass / Couch Grass / Wheat / Fuller's Teasel / Devil's Bit Scabious / Greater Plantain. 9. Great Burnet / White Saunders / Contrayerva / Wall Pellitory / Ladies Mantle / Holly. 10. Scorpion Grass / Gromwell / Alkanet / Lungwort / Borage / Cowslip. 11. Indian Pink / Vomic Nut / Guinea Pepper / Deadly Nightshade / Thorn Apple / Black Henbane. 12. Woody Nightshade / Cardinal Flower / Potato / Winter Cherry / Sweet Violet / Pansie. 13. Tobacco / Scammony Bindweed / Coffee / Jalap Bindweed / Common Vine / Peruvian Bark Tree. 14. Ipecacuan / Black Currant / Purging Buckthorn / Honeysuckle / Red Currant / Ivy. 15. Periwinkle / Prickly Saltwort / Mullein / Dodder / Elm Tree / Stinking Goose Foot. 16. Yellow Gentian / Purple Gentian / Swallow-wort / Sea Holly / Beet / Penny-wort. 17. Samphire / Small Hartwort / Carrot / Great Hartwort / Hemlock / Earth Nut. 18. Common Fennel / Hog's Fennel / Dill / Angelica / Water Hemlock / Fool's Parsley. 19. Coriander / Common Chervil / Sweet Cicely / Masterwort / Parsnip / Carraway. 20. Burnet Saxifrage / Parsley / Anise / Goutwort / Asafoetida / Galbanum. 21. Cummin / Common Elder / Sumach / Balm of Gilhead / Common Flax / Great Sundew. 22. Snowdrop / Daffodil / Garlic / Tulip / Hyacinth / Star of Bethlehem. 23. Squill / Asparagus / Lily of the Valley / Solomon's Seal / Sweet Flag / Common Rush. 24. Barberry / Purslane / Aloe / Common Sorrel / Bloody Veined Dock / Great Water Dock. 25. Common Meadow Saffron / Dragon's Blood Tree / Common Horse Chesnut. 26. Chickweed Wintergreen / Mesereon / Water Plantain. 27. Bilberry / Bog Whortleberry / Red Whortleberry / Cranberry / Spurge Laurel / Evening Primrose. 28. Fine Leaved Heath / Cross Leaved Heath / Common Ling / Ciliated Heath / Rosebay Willow-herb / Hairy Willow-herb. 29. Common Maple / Biting Persicaria / Great Indian Cress. 30. Great Bistort / Buck Wheat / Knot Grass / Herb Paris / Cinnamon Tree / Sassafras Tree. 31. Flowering Rush. 32. Camphor / Sweet Bay / Rhubarb / Senna / [Cannot read] / [Cannot read]. 33. Dittany / Balsam of Tolu / Storax / Quassia / Logwood / Yellow Rhododendron. 34. Single Flowered Wintergreen / Clove Pink / Stone Crop / Corn Cockle / Canella Alba / Agrimony. 35. Almond Tree / Wild Plum / Peach Tree / Dog Rose / Hundred-leaved Rose / Red Officinal Rose. 36. Raspberry / Strawberry / Cinque Foil / Avens / White Poppy / Red Poppy. 37. White Water Lily / Lime Tree / Clove Tree / Cretan Cistus / Caper Bush / Tea Tree. 38. Peony / Wolf's Bane / Columbine / Stavesacre / Water Soldier / Wood Anemone. 39. Winter Bark Tree / Black Hellebore / Clematis / Meadow Rue / Globe Flower / Pilewort. 40. Water Crowfoot / Marsh Marigold / Bugle / Wood Sage / Vervain / Catmint. 41. Peppermint / Ground Ivy / White Archangel / Yellow Weasel Snout / Betony / Large Flowered Hemp Nettle. 42. Hedge Woundwort / Black Horehound / Dittany of Crete / Lavender / Common Balm / Hyssop. 43. Common Skullcap / Bastard Balm / Red Bartsia / Yellow Rattle / Eye Bright / Cow Wheat. 44. Lousewort / Yellow Toad Flax / Ivy leaved Snap Dragon / Figwort / Two flowered Linnaea / Chaste Tree. 45. Sea Kale / Gold of Pleasure / Wolds / Pepperwort / Common Scurvy Grass / Horse Radish. 46. Bitter Candy Tuft / Ladies Smock / Water Cress / Black Mustard / Jack by the Hedge / Wall Flower. 47. Hoary Stock / Wild Radish / Wild Cabbage / Turnip / Sea Rocket / Dame's Violet. 48. Passion Flower / Tamarind Tree / Herb Robert. 49. Camellias / Holly Hock / Common Cotton. 50. Milkwort / Common Broom / Bastard Cabbage Tree / Cowhage / Liquorice / Red Saunders Tree. 51. Fumitory / Marsh Mellow / Fenugreek / Stemless Milk Vetch / Thorny Rest Harrow / Variable Medick. 53. Melilot / Tree Medick / Purple Coronilla / Pallid Trefoil / Purple Trefoil / Long Spiked Trefoil. 54. Alpine Trefoil / Clover / Honeysuckle Trefoil / Bastard Trefoil / Dutch Clover / Cow Grass. 55. Star headed Trefoil / Hop Trefoil / Meadow Lathyrus / Bird's-foot Trefoil / Everlasting Pea. 56. Common Vetch / Tufted Vetch / Wood Vetch / Bush Vetch / Sea Pea / Saint Foin. 57. Lady's Finger / Bitter Vetch / Common Tare / Chocolate Tree / Orange Tree / Lemon Tree. 58. Goat's Beard / Wild Lettuce / Way Thistle / Burdock / Artichoke / Dandelion. 59. Nipplewort / Sowthistle / Great Hawkweed / Lungwort Hawkweed / Mouse ear Hawkweed / Small Hawkweed. 60. Spear Thistle / Cotton Thistle / Carline Thistle / Hemp Agrimony / Bur Marigold / Goldilocks. 61. Fleabane / Tansy / Cudweed / Southernwood / Mugwort / See Wormwood. 62. Wormseed / Coltsfoot / Butter bun / Daisy / Elscampane / Feverfew. 63. Mountain Arnica / Camomile / Pellitory of Spain / Yarrow / Sneezewort / Groundsell. 64. Ragwort / Golden Rod / Corn Marigold / Leopard's Bane / Dahlia / Star Thistle. 65. Corn Blue Bottle / Common Marygold / Male Orchis / Spotted Orchis / March Orchis / Insect Orchis. 66. Ladies Traces / Tway Blade / Helleborine / Snake Root / Ladies Slipper. 67. Longrooted Birthwort / Great Spurge / Officinal Surge / Bur Reed / Common Nettle / Mulberry Tree. 68. Box Tree / Bryony / Arum / Walnut Tree / Staining Oak / Common Oak. 69. White Birch / Cascarilla / Sweet Chesnut / Scotch Pine / Purging Croton. 70. Balm of Gilhead / Spruce Fir / Cedar of Lebanon / Castor Oil Plant / Bitter Cucumber / Wild Cucumber. 71. Physic Nut / Snake Gourd / Crack Willow / Bay leaved Willow / White Willow / Round leaved Willow. 72. Crowberry / Butcher's Broom / Palm Oil Tree / Date Palm / Cocoa Nut Palm. 73. Miseltoe / Sweet Gale / Sea Buckthorn / Hop / Mastic Tree / Turpentine Tree. 74. Common Hemp / Black Bryony / Chinese Smilax / Sarsaprilla / Calumba Plant / Black Popar. 75. Mercury / Frog Bit / Myrtle leaved Sumach / Lycian Juniper / Savin / Yew. 76. Pitcher Plant / Pareira Brava / Nutmeg Tree. 77. Halbert Shaped Orache / Sea Purslane / Indian Millet / White Hellebore / Egyptian Mimosa / Catechu Mimosa. 78. Sensitive Plant / Acacia / Gamboge Tree / Flowering Ash / Plantain Tree / Sycamore. 79. Ginseng / Common Fig Tree / Banian Tree. 80. Rough Horsetail / Corn Horsetail / Great Mud Horsetail. 81. Common Brakes / Spleenwort / Moonwort / Flowering Fern / Adder's-Tongue. 82. Hard Fern / Rough Shield Fern / Polypody / Maidenhair / Brittle Bladder Fern. 83. Filmy Fern / Harts Tongue / Club Moss / Pillwort / Quillwort. 84. Bog Moss / Marsh Thread Moss / Common Polytrichum / Long-leaved Thread Moss / Curled Fern Feather Moss / Neat Hypnum. 85. Eared Jungermannia / Capillary Bryum / Slippery Jungermannia / Star headed Marchantia / Feather Moss / Spleenwort Jungermannia. 86. Bladder Fucus / Eatable Fucus. 87. Esculant Agaric / Orange Agaric / Ruffled Agaric / Common Mushroom / Horse Mushroom. 88. Reindeer Lichen / Eryngo leaved Lichen / Ash coloured Liverwort / Crowned Lichen. 89. Blewitts / Champignon / Chanterelles / Mild Agaric / Oak Agaric. 90. Honey Agaric / Pioppini / Violet Agaric / Warty Agaric. 91. Brown Boletus / Puckered Agaric / Bell Agaric. 92. Wood Boletus / Prickley Fungus / Liver Boletus / Roman Boletus / Puff-balls / Esculent Morell. 93. Coral Clavaria / Yellow Clavaria / Jews Ears / White Agaric / Orange Boletus / Touchwood Boletus. 94. Zedoary / Long Pepper / Cubebs / Peruvian Krameria / Oswega Tea / Peruvian Turnsole. 95. Garden Balsam / Hairy Stapelia / Grass of Parnassus / Sea Lavender / White Henbane / Trailing Bindweed. 96. Belladonna Lily / Elm leaved Turnera / Common White Lily / Martagon Lily. 97. Chinese Rhubarb / Small American Crinum / Yellow Crown Imperial. 98. Wild Cinnamon / Navelwort / Flowering Raspberry / Elegant American Bramble. 99. Psoralea / Cnicus / Melancholy Thistle / Maudlin / Pomegranate / Citron. 100. Peruvian Mastic Tree / Arctotis / Manchineel Tree / Cupped Oak.