Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution, a Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670

by Agnes Arber

Book Overview

Herbals deal primarily with medicinal and culinary herbs, their real and supposed properties and virtues, and in origin they go back at least to the Ancient Greeks. During the 16th and 17th centuries they developed into attractively illustrated printed books, the forerunners of modern botanical and pharmaceutical textbooks. Agnes Arber's Herbals (first published in 1912, much revised in 1938) stands as the major survey of the period 1470 to 1670 when...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521338794
• ISBN13: 9780521338790
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"