HERBALS: THEIR ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION, Agnes Arber 1st / 1st 1912, SCARCE BOTANY

  HERBALS: THIER ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION: A Chapter in the History of Botany — by Agnes Arber — 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1912 SCARCE — Herbal Magic Culpepper Botany —Listing of Herbs and their Uses Publisher: At the University Press, Cambridge (1912)The boards and binding are solid and tight, with spots of light fading on the front board. The pages are crisp and clean save for first and last blank pages which have some tanning. All text pages are crisp and clean, and free of interior markings save for previous owner's name on the first blank page. A thoroughly fascinating and detailed book on the history of herbals, in a very scarce first edition copy from 1912. 253 pages; illustrated. "Herbals deal primarily with medicinal and culinary herbs, their real and supposed properties and virtues, and in origin they go back at least to the Ancient Greeks. During the 16th and 17th centuries they developed into attractively illustrated printed books, the forerunners of modern botanical and phar