The art of simpling
Subtitle: an introduction to the knowledge and gathering of plants : wherein the defininitions [sic], divisions, places, descriptions, differences, names, vertues, times of flourishing and gathering, uses, temperatures, signatures and appropriations of plants, are methodically laid down : whereunto is added, A discovery of the lesser world
By: by W. Coles
Publisher: Herb Lovers Book Club
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Milford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Medical Botany; Early works to 1800; Signatures (Medicine)
Notes: "Reprinted for the first time since the original edition ... from the copy owned by Mrs. Rosetta E. Clarkson ... 1938. With notes on the author and his work ... "--T.p. verso.

Originally published; London : Printed by J.G. for Nath. Brook, 1657.

The 1657 issue, here reproduced, lacks the dedication to Elias Ashmole that appeared in the first and second issues (1656) but is otherwise made up of sheets and cancels from the second issue.--Cf. Hunt, 266.

Reprint does not include Perspicillum microcosmologicum, or, A prospective for the discovery of the lesser world, referred to on the facsimile t.p. as a discovery of the lesser world.