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Title Theatrum botanicvm: the theater of plants, or An Herball of large extent
Call Number QK41 .P2
Date 1640
Description Printed in London by T. Cotes, this work by John Parkinson, the Royal Botanist to Charles I, describes over 3,800 plants and was the most complete and beautifully presented English treatise on plants of its day. It was the first work to describe 33 native plants, 13 of which grew near Parkinson's Middlesex home. Some of these plants, such as the Welsh poppy, the Strawberry Tree and the Lady's Slipper, were very common but had gone unnoticed or at least unrecorded. He intended the book to be a reliable guide for apothecaries, and it remained so for more than a hundred years after his death.
Creator Parkinson, John, 1567-1650
Subject Botany--Pre-Linnean works
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Language eng
Collection Name Rare Books Collection
Holding Institution Rare Books Division, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Rights NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
Scanning Technician Easton Madsen
ARK ark:/87278/s6pc8sdf
Setname uum_rbc
ID 1608467
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pc8sdf

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Title Page 877
OCR Text Show
Format application/pdf
Collection Name Rare Books Collection
Setname uum_rbc
ID 1609344
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pc8sdf/1609344