★ Turner, Robert [1619-1665]. Botanologia [caratteri greci], The Brittish Physician, or, The nature and Vertues of English plants. Exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land, with their degrees of Temperature, Applications and Vertues, Physical and Astrological Uses, treated of, each plant appropriated to the several diseases they cure and Directions for their Medicinal Uses, throughout the whole Body of Man; being most special helps for sudden Accidents, Acute and Cronick Distempers. By means whereof People may gather their own Physick under every Hedge, or in their own Gardens, which may be most conducing to their Health, so that observing the direction in this Book, they may become their own Physicians: for what Climate forever is subject to any particular Disease, in the same Place there grows a Cure. With two exact Tables, the one with the English and Latine Names of the Plants; the other of the Disease, and Names of each Plant appropriated to the Diseases, with their Cures. By Robert Turner, Botanolog. Stud . London, Printed by R[obert] Wood for N[athanael] Brook at the Angel in Cornhill, 1664.
In 8° (18 cm), A-V8 Bb8 (H5 è segnata H4), cc. [1 bianca] [7], pp. 304 (i.e. 306), cc. [5]. Numerosi errori di numerazione. Dedica a Richard Chaworth in latino in A3 recto, seguita dalla Letter to the reader datata in A6 verso Christopher Alley in St. Martins Le Grand, London. 23. March, 1663/4. Dopo la letter si trovano (fino ad A8 verso): una lettera in versi di John Gadbury, una poesia di Jo.Bo. Botunofilo (?) (in caratteri greci), una poesia in rima di William Smith, altra poesia in rima di Bartholomew Goodrick.
Opera di botanica con attenzione anche ai dati astrologici: così scrissero anche Culpepper e Thurneysser. Naturalmente l’astrologia è presente in modo massiccio.
Prima edizione.
La Cambridge University e la Wellcome Library possiedono una variante che ha quali dati editoriali: London, printed by R. Wood and are to be sold by Richard Lambert, Bookseller at the Minster Gare in York, 1664 e la seguente paginazione: in 8°, 18 cm, cc. [8], pp. 363 [1], cc. [1, ripiegata]. Ritratto dell’Autore.
Esemplari: Library of Congress; Bodleian Library, Oxford (esemplare incompleto); Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (esemplare incompleto); Natural History Museum; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München.
Altra edizione: 1687, London printed for Obadiah Blagrave, in 8°, cc. [4], pp. 363 [1], cc. [10]. Ritratto dell’Autore, con il titolo Botanologia [caratteri greci]. The British physician: or, the nature and vertues of English plants: Exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land with their several names, Greek, Latine, or English natures, places where they grow, times when they flourish, and are most proper to be gathered; their degrees of temperature, applications andvertues, physical and astrological uses, treated of; each plant appropriated to the several diseases they cure and directions for their medicinal uses, throughout the whole body of man […] Being most special helps for sudden accidents, acute and chronick distempers. By means whereof people may gather their own physick under every hedge, or in their own gardens which may be most conducing to their health so that observing the direction in this book, they may become their own physicians [...] climate soever is subject to any particular disease in the same place there grows a cure. With two exact tables [...]. Esemplare della Manchester University.