Nicholas Culpeper, M.D. - The Complete Herbal; To which is now added, upwards of One Hundred Additional Herbs with a display of their Medicinal and Occult Qualities physically applied to the Cure of all Disorders Incident to Mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English Physician Enlarged, and Key to Physic. with Rules for Compounding Medicine According to the True System of Nature. Forming a Complete Family Dispensatory and Natural System of Physic. To which is also added, Upwards of Fifty Choice Receipts, selected from the author's last legacy to his wife - London, Thomas Kelly & CO., 1861. - Contemporary calf backed marbled board with gilt decorations and lettering on spine. With calf corners. With an engraved frontispice with a portrait of the author. Complete with twenty hand-colored lithographed plates. (4), 398, (44). Quarto. Condition: Good. Binding slightly worn. Foxing as usual, occasionally fingersoiled. * Originally published in 1653 to provide information on the medicinal properties of plants and was intended to make medical knowledge more accessible to the general public.