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Lot 436

Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
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Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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$500 - 800
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$520
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[Science, Medicine & Mathematics] Culpeper, (Nicholas). Group of 2 Titles


Culpeper's English Physician; And Complete Herbal...
London: Lewis and Hamblin. 1807. First edition. Two volumes bound in one. 4to. xvi. 398, 255, pp. Illustrated with 42 copper-engraved plates. Plates 1-16 bound out of order. Full modern tan calf, red morocco spine label, all edges trimmed; scattered foxing and offsetting opposite plates; contemporary ownership ink signature on front blank.

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Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or the London Dispensatory...
London: Printed by Peter Cole, 1659. "Sixt Edition". 12mo. (xiv), 377, (xi) pp. Contemporary brown morroco, stamped in blind, endcaps perished and corners bumped; all edges trimmed, scattered stains along same; silk paste-downs, contemporary notations on front paste-down; two-inch closed tear to title-page, thee-inch paper loss to first page of introduction; gutter split between pp. 222-223. Lacking 22 pp. of index and ads at rear.

A pair of works by English botanist and physician Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654), whose approach to the use of herbs in medicine had a profound impact on medical practice in America and the New World.

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