Lot 1475 , Botany - Sheldrake, Timothy - Botanicum Medicinale; an Herbal of Medicinal Plants on the College of Physicians List, folio, half calf, lacking title and folding table, with 95 [of 118 originally], leaves of hand-coloured

° Botany - Sheldrake, Timothy - Botanicum Medicinale; an Herbal of Medicinal Plants on the College of Physicians List, folio, half calf, lacking title and folding table, with 95 [of 118 originally], leaves of hand-coloured figures of plants surrounded by text, by C.H. Hemerich and J. Basire, after drawings by Sheldrake, published by J. Millan, [1759]. Originally issued in parts.
£1,500-1,800

Condition:
Lacking title and list of plates, end papers creased, front cover detached, boards scuffed, with loss to paper and leather to extremities, plates, (incorporating text), clean, leaf top and fore edge to ‘’Common Rosemary’’ curled and slightly torn.