Adam in Eden: or, Natures paradise. :

The history of plants, fruits, herbs and flowers. With their several names, whether Greek, Latin or English; the places where they grow; their descriptions and kinds; their times of flourishing and decreasing; as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations, and particular physical vertues; ... with ... observations on the seasons of planting ... and gathering of our English simples with directions how to preserve them iu [sic] their compositions or otherwise. A work of such a refined and useful method, ... that apothecaries, chirurgions, and all other ingenuous practitioners, ... compleatly furnish themselves with cheap, easie, and wholsome cures for any part of the body that is ill-affected. For the herbarists greater benefit, there is annexed a Latin and English table of the several names of simples ; with another ... table of the diseases, and their cures ... By William Coles, Herbarist.
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Coles, William, 1626-1662.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: London : printed by J. Streater, for Nathaniel Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1657.
Subjects:
Notes:Title page in red and black.

With numerous mispaginations.

Includes index.

Last leaf bears advertisements.

Signatures: A²a-b⁴B-2T⁴, 3A-3O⁴3P1, 4A-4H⁴4I1, 5A-5K⁴, 4L-4O²4P⁴(-4P4), 4R1.

The address "To the Reader" is defective.

Physical description: [20], 165, 116-164, 167-206, 209-264, 269-348, 347-396, 66, 551-629, [25] p. : ill ; 2⁰.

Citations/References: Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), C5087

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