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A book of fruits & flowers : shewing the nature and use of them, either for meat or medicine. As also: to preserve, conserve, candy, and in wedges, or dry them, to make powders, civet bagges, all sorts of sugar-works, turn'd works in sugar, hollow, or frutages, and to pickell them. And for meat, to make pyes, biscat, maid dishes, marchpanes, leeches... For medicines, to make all sorts of poultisses, and serecloaths for any member swell'd or inflamed, ointments, waters for all wounds, and cancers, salves for aches ... [etc.]

  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: A book of fruits & flowers : shewing the nature and use of them, either for meat or medicine. As also: to preserve, conserve, candy, and in wedges, or dry them, to make powders, civet bagges, all sorts of sugar-works, turn'd works in sugar, hollow, or frutages, and to pickell them. And for meat, to make pyes, biscat, maid dishes, marchpanes, leeches... For medicines, to make all sorts of poultisses, and serecloaths for any member swell'd or inflamed, ointments, waters for all wounds, and cancers, salves for aches ... [etc.]
  • Description:

    "With engraved illustrations copied from those in the "Hortus floridus" of Crispin de Passe the Younger"--BM cat.

    Anon.

    Indexed in: References; BM; Hunt botanical cat. 256; Wing (2nd ed.) B3708; NUC pre-56.

  • Date range: 1653
  • Date: 1653
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 16 Jul 2017 19:19
  • Last Modified: 16 Jul 2017 19:34