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British herbal : an history of plants and trees, natives of Britain, cultivated for use, or raised for beauty

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Title British herbal : an history of plants and trees, natives of Britain, cultivated for use, or raised for beauty
Subject Botany--Great Britain
Creator Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Description In The British Herbal, Hill described and gave the common use for some fifteen hundred plants of Great Britain and illustrated his text with seventy-five full-page copperplate engravings executed by several different artists. Although John Hill was judged a quack by contemporaries, he made a great and lasting contribution in the area of botanical studies. An apothecary by trade, Hill's initial interest in plants was utilitarian; he collected them for friends and used them to concoct herbal remedies. Hill undertook several large projects in plant classification, among them this work, a valuable taxonomic achievement useful to the scholarly botanist.
Date 1756
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Language eng
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Holding Institution J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Scanning Technician Easton Madsen
Call Number QK41 .H6
ARK ark:/87278/s63v57d7
Setname uum_rbc
ID 1614314
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63v57d7
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