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[004184] Salmon, William. Botanologia – The English Herbal: Or a History of Plants. ill. Van Der Gucht, Michael After E. Knight. London: I. Dawks for H. Rhodes and J. Taylor, 1710-11. First Edition. Folio. Hardback. Fair. [6], i-xxiv, 680pp; [2], 681-1296pp, [44]. Full contemporary calf, raised bands, spines in seven panels, title label to second panels, remaining panels with central fleuron device, covers with thick line and dog tooth rolled border, roll to edges, with combed and curled marbled endpapers
Heavily chipped to spine ends and outer joints with loss to leather, lacking end caps, cords exposed but holding well, corners bumped and worn, covers worn and scraped, inner joints cracked. Internally lightly browned and foxed throughout, sometimes heavily, but generally tolerable, in the second volume 5F1 is missing a small piece from the top margin, with a small worm track to top margin throughout
With the bookplate of G.K. Cowlishaw to front pastedowns. Lacks the 6pp ‘Index Morborum’ as often
Engraved frontispiece engraved by Michael Van Der Gucht after Eloas Knight, title in red and black. Unusually bound here in two volumes, with the second letterpress title printed in black only, and dated 1711
“Salmon, William (1644-1713), medical empiric and author … Salmon published Botanologia: the English Herbal in 1710-11, a work later recalled as ‘the swan song of the great English Herbalists'” (ODNB)
The engraver Michael Vandergucht (1660-1725), had been a pupil of David Loggan’s (see Alexander, A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers, 1714-1820, page 934)
Lowndes 2810; Henrey 1308; Pritzel 8018, and Wellcome V:13
