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Creator:: Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585
Published / Created:: 1578
Call Number:: 2012 +286
Image Count:: 32
Alternative Title:: Cruydeboeck. English, Nievve herball, Niewe herball, and Historie of plantes
Description:: BEIN 2012 +286: 30 cm. Imperfect: woodcut initial excised from p. 574, with slight loss of lettering to p. 573; last two gatherings repaired at bottom, with some loss of text, some of which is supplied in manuscript. This copy has the variant state of...
Publisher:: By me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne, By me Henry Loë bookeprinter, and are to be solde at London in Povvels Churchyarde, by Gerard Devves)
Subject (Topic):: Herbals, Botany, Medical, Botany, Herbs, and Therapeutic use
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A nievve herball, or, Historie of plantes : wherein is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes, their diuers & sundry kindes, their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes: their names, natures, operations, and vertues, and that not onely of those which are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly used in physicke

Creator:: Yazdī, al-Muṭahhar ibn Muḥammad, active 1184
يزدي، المطهر بن محمد، active 1184
Published / Created:: 16--?]
Call Number:: Manuscript Persian 23
Image Count:: 326
Alternative Title:: ʻAjāyib al-dunyā, عجايب الدنيا, Book of animals, plants and stones, ʻAjāʼib al-dunyā, and عجائب الدنيا
Description:: Digital version available;
Publisher:: s.n. and د.ن.،
Subject (Topic):: Natural history, Zoology, Botany, Precious stones, and Minerals
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Faraḥ nāmah, فرح نامه

Creator:: Sowerby, James, 1757-1822, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1790 and 1793?]
Call Number:: Folio 75 So73 790 (Oversize)
Container / Volume:: Box 1
Image Count:: 25
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A collection of five botanical drawings, one with two hummingbirds (Lampornis calosoma) and twenty botanical prints (some proof state) by James Sowerby
Description:: Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):: Sowerby, James, 1757-1822.
Subject (Topic):: Botany and Botanical illustrations
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [A collection of botanical drawings and prints by James Sowerby] [graphic].

Creator:: Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405
دميري، محمد بن موسى، 1341?-1405
Published / Created:: [17th century?]
Call Number:: Manuscript Arabic S-2
Image Count:: 862
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: A zoological encyclopedia listing the names of the different animals, birds and insects arranged alphabetically, with anecdotes, poems and folkloric tales, but the most important part of this work is the description of the medicinal properties of the ...
Alternative Title:: Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá 880-02 and حياة الحيوان الكبرى 240-02/r
Description:: In Arabic.
Subject (Name):: Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405.
Subject (Topic):: Zoology, Science, Medieval, and Animals in literature
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān, [1600], حياة الحيوان، [1600]

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