Botany.- Sheldrake (Timothy) Botanicum Medicinale; an Herbal of Medicinal Plats on the College of Physicians List, 111 hand-coloured engraved plates, for J. Millan, 1759.

Botany.- Sheldrake (Timothy) Botanicum Medicinale; an Herbal of Medicinal Plants on the College of Physicians List, letterpress title with index and advertisement on verso (loose, ?from another copy as smaller, c.430 x 260mm.),111 engraved plates by C.H. Hemerich after Sheldrake only (of 118) on large paper (c.465 x 290mm.), each with hand-coloured floral roundel with text beneath, numbered by hand in ink in upper right hand corner and with contemporary manuscript index at end (not corresponding to printed index on verso of title), lacking folding table, title with contemporary ink inscription "Geo. Starbuck Bot. at St.Botolphs' Auction Sept. 29th 1814" at head and another signature of Richard Le Hunte, plates with some light soiling or browning, contemporary calf, rebacked, very worn, upper cover detached, [Henrey 1312/1313; Nissen BBI 1839], folio (for J. Millan, [?1759 or 1768].

⁂ A work rarely found complete and some of those few which have appeared at auction have also contained only 111 plates and are often lacking the title and/or the table. The work was issued in parts, and 400 plates were advertised; possibly the last 2 parts were not properly distributed as the work came to a premature end. Henrey states that the plates have numbers partly engraved and partly in manuscript but in this copy they are all in manuscript. The work was reissued in c.1768 and Henrey mentions a large paper copy "finely coloured" being in the Cracherode library in the British Museum, with plates unnumbered, so possibly this is the reissue.