1587. Leonard Plunkett’s Phytographia Sive Stirpium Illustriorum and minus Cognitarum Icones, Tabulis Aeneis. Quarum unaquæ. Titulis descriptoriis ex Notis Suis Characteristicis desumptis insignitia, etc. Three folio parts bound in 2, 250 plates and frontis., portrait, 3 engraved titles and text. Nothing was printed from types; very rare. London, 1691-92.$10.00
1588. Lettsom, J. C. The Natural History of the Tea Tree, with Observations on the Medical Qualities of Tea and on the Effects of Tea Drinking. 4to, stitched, uncut, 4 hand-colored copper plates and other illus., rare and valuable. London, 1799.$2.75
1589. Linnæus’ Materia Medica. C. A. Linni Materia Medica per Regna tria Naturæ, secundum Genera, etc. Editio altera auctior curante, J. C. D. Schrebero. Old calf, folding plate, fine copy. Lipsiæ et Erlangæ, 1772.$2.25
1590. Linnæus. Whitlaw’s New Medical Discoveries, with a Defense of the Linnæan Doctrine, and Trans. of his Vegetable Materia Medica, which now first appears in an English Dress. By Charles Whitlaw. 2 vols. in 1, boards, uncut, broken, fine, clean copy. London, 1829.$2.00
1591. Lukens. Dr. T. The Sick Man’s Guide, or, Family Director. Compiled from Best Botanic Publications, Directions for Using Dr. Samuel Thomson’s Medicines, etc. 12mo, 190 pp., very rare. Bridgeton, N. J., 1845.$2.25
1592. Matthioli’s Great Materia Medica. Petri Andreæ Matthioli. Senensis Medici, Commentarii in 6 libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Auazarbei de Medica Materia, jam denuo ab ipso Autore recogniti, et locis plus mille Aucti, etc. This immense work is based on the Greek work of the immortal Dioscorides, giving the original, versus the revised figures of the two authors on opposite pages, and adding many species not in former authors. Many Animals are included seriatim. The illus. are fine old woodcuts, the pages numbering over 1500, folio, in good condition, half calf, corner broken. Printed wholly in Latin. Matthioli and Dioscorides are foundation stones in systematic Botany. This is the very rare first edition of a work trans. in many languages, almost up to the present time. (R. ro.) Venetiis Ex-Officina Valgrisia, 1545.$16.00
1593. Mattson, M. Thomson. American Vegetable Practice, or, a New and improved Guide to Health designed for the use of Families. Rare first ed., 2 vols. in 1, sheep, 24 col. plates, etc. Preface relates to his troubles with Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Boston. Boston, 1841.$2.50
1594. Meyrick, Wm. The New Family Herbal; or, Domestic Physician. Descriptions of All Known Vegetables Remarkable for Medical Efficacy, etc. Half calf, 498 pp., colored and plain plates. Birmingham, 1790.$4.00
1595. Millspaugh, C. F. American Medicinal Plants, Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to the American Plants used as Homeopathic Remedies; Their History, Preparation, Chemistry and Physiological Effects. The 6 fascicles complete (published each at $5), orig. board folders as issued, 4to size, colored lithographed plates, illus., each plant from drawings in situ by the author, as new. N. York and Phila., 1884.$10.00
1596. Newton, James (the Late). A Complete Herbal, Containing the Prints and English Names of Several Thousand Trees, Plants, Shrubs, Flowers, Exotics, etc., many of which are not to be found in the Herbals of either Gerard, Johnson or Parkinson. 12mo, calf, portrait of Newton and innumerable figures, “curiously engraved on 176 copper-plates.” London, 1805.$2.50