EditorialSt. Benedict's Herb, Geum urbanum, and common rue, Ruta graveolens. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrati...
Editorial'Gariofilata.' Possibly clove root (radix caryophyllata) or Herba Benedicta, or Blessed Herb, or Avens (Geum Urbanum). Coloured drawings of plants, copied from nature in the Roman States, by Gerardo Cibo. Vol. I. Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Physician, of S...
EditorialSt. Benedict's Herb, Geum urbanum, and common rue, Ruta graveolens. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrati...
EditorialHerb Bennet or wood avens, Geum urbanum. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) w...
EditorialHerb Bennet or St. Benedict's herb, Geum urbanum. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg...
EditorialWood avens, Geum urbanum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew over 2,...