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" A curious Herbal, containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants which are now used in the practice of physic, engraved on folio copper plūtes, afler drawings taken from the life, by Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added, a short description... "
Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical - Page 130
by Michael Bryan - 1886 - 779 pages
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Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, Volume 4

Bertil Boėthius - CD-ROMs - 1924 - 826 pages
...utsträckning ha medverkat i sin hustrus, Elizabeth Blackwells, verk: A curious herbal containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick, to which is added a short description of yc plants, and their common use in physick. Vol....
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The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760

Myra Reynolds - Literary Criticism - 1920 - 546 pages
...mourning Children. London, 1672. BLACKWELL, Mrs. ELIZABETH. A Curious Herbal containing Five Hundred Cuts of the most useful Plants which are now used in the Practice of Physic. Two volumes. London, 1739. L _ BROOKE, LADY ELIZABETH. Selections from the Writings of Lady Elizabeth...
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The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760

Myra Reynolds - Literary Criticism - 1920 - 542 pages
...mourning Children. London, 1672. BLACKWELL, Mrs. ELIZABETH. A Curious Herbal containing Five Hundred Cuts of the most useful Plants which are now used in the Practice of Physic. Two volumes. London, 1739. BROOKE, LADY ELIZABETH. Selections from the Writings of Lady Elizabeth Brooke...
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The Old English Herbals

Eleanour Sinclair Rohde - Botanical literature - 1922 - 302 pages
...without Temple Bar. MDCCXXIII. Elizabeth BlackweU. 1737. A Curious Herbal, Containing Five Hundred Cuts, of the most useful Plants, which are now used in the Practice of Physick. Engraved on folio Copper Plates, after Drawings, taken from the Life. By Elizabeth Blackwell....
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Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Volume 1

Michael Bryan - Dictionary - 1925 - 580 pages
...ELIZABETH, the daughter of a London merchant, is known as the author of ' A Curious Herbal, containing 600 cuts of the most useful plants which are now used...1757, with German and Latin text, and 600 coloured plates, and at Leipsic in 1794. Mrs. Blackwell was the wife of Dr. Blackwell, who for many years was...
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Book-prices Current: A Record of Prices at which Books Have Been ..., Volume 40

Bibliography - 1926 - 1032 pages
...Dec. 7, Sotheby Wheldon, £5 ios. Blackwell (Elizabeth). A Curious Herbal, containing Five Hundred Cuts of the most useful Plants, which are now used in the Practice of Physick, col. plates, 2 vol., pres. copy to Dr. Mead, hf. mor., gt, 1739, folio (211), Jan. 25, Sotheby...
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Flora Capensis: Ranunculaceae to Connaraceae. 1859-1860

William Henry Harvey, Otto Wilhelm Sonder - Botany - 1894 - 594 pages
...or terminal spikes, racemes or panicles, small. The name is given in honour of Mrs. Eliz. Blackwell, author of " A curious Herbal, containing 500 cuts...plants, which are now used in the practice of Physic, London, 1737;" a work of much merit, which has been translated into German and Latin. An account of...
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Annual Report, Volume 7

Missouri Botanical Garden - Botany - 1896 - 356 pages
...Londini, 1746. 1 vol. S. (16.9x10.4). Blackwell, Elizabeth:* A curious herbal, containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick. * * * To which is added a short description of y* plants ; and their common uses in physick....
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Annual Report - Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden - Botany - 1896 - 354 pages
...Londini, 1746. 1 vol. S. (16.9x10.4). Blackwell, Elizabeth:* A curious herbal, containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick. * * * To which is added a short description of y6 plants ; and their common uses in physick....
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Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-century British ...

Beth Fowkes Tobin - Art - 1999 - 324 pages
...relations, but other artists focused on plants in their human context. Herbals, like Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal, Containing 500 Cuts of the most...useful plants which are now used in the Practice of Physick (1737-39), contained information on medicinal uses of plants. The illustration of the tobacco...
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