A CURIOUS HERBAL
$75.00
A Curious Herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell is a significant 18th-century botanical book featuring 500 hand-colored engravings of medicinal plants, created to help her husband, a physician, who was imprisoned for debt.
Published in installments starting in 1737, it includes detailed drawings by Blackwell herself, descriptions of the plants, and their uses in medicine, making it a valuable work of botany, illustration, and entrepreneurship.
