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• Early works to 1800

• Herbals -- Early works to 1800

• The Compleat Herbal of Physical Plants (London: Printed for H. Bonwicke, 1694), by John Pechey
  • page images at Florida State
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets (Brooklyn: Pub. by the Women's Auxiliary, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1937), by John Evelyn, contrib. by Helen Morgenthau Fox (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Compleat Herbal of Physical Plants (second edition; London: Printed for R. and T. Bonwicke, 1707), by John Pechey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, or, An Herball of Large Extent (London: Printed by T. Cotes, 1640), by John Parkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voynich manuscript
  • page images at Yale
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Vertuose Boke of Distyllacyon of the Waters of All Maner of Herbes (London: L. Andrewe, ca. 1530), by Hieronymus Brunschwig, trans. by Laurence Andrew (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Garden of Herbs (London and Boston: P. L. Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, 1921), by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Seasoning Secrets: Herbs and Spices (c1949), by Carson Gulley (page images at Wisconsin)
• Magic Gardens: A Modern Chronicle of Herbs and Savory Seeds (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by Rosetta E. Clarkson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Green Enchantment: The Magic Spell of Gardens (New York: Macmillan, 1940), by Rosetta E. Clarkson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book of Herbs (London and New York: J. Lane, 1903), by Rosalind Northcote
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Herbal Medicine: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects (second edition; Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2011), ed. by Iris F. F. Benzie and Sissi Wachtel-Galor (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Herbal Medicine: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects (second edition; Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2011), ed. by Iris F. F. Benzie and Sissi Wachtel-Galor (illustrated HTML at NIH)
• The Complete Herbal, by Nicholas Culpeper (HTML at Bibliomania)
• A Curious Herbal, Containing Five Hundred Cuts, of the Most Useful Plants, Which are Now Used in the Practice of Physick (2 volumes; London: Printed for Samuel Harding (v1) and John Nourse (v2), 1737-1739), by Elizabeth Blackwell (page images at illustratedgarden.org)
• The Cherokee Physician: or, Indian Guide to Health (Asheville, NC: Edney and Dedman, 1849), by Richard Foreman, contrib. by Jas. W. Mahoney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Compleat Herbal of Physical Plants (second edition; London: Printed for R. and T. Bonwicke, 1707), by John Pechey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Hypericum and Depression, by Harold H. Bloomfield, Mikael Nordfors, and Peter McWilliams (HTML at hypericum.com)

• Tesoro de Medicinas para Diversas Enfermedades (in Spanish; third printing; Madrid: Imprenta de Musica, 1708), by Gregorio López, contrib. by Mathias de Salazar Mariaca and Joseph Diaz Brizuela
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Hawaiian Herbs of Medicinal Value: Found Among the Mountains and Elsewhere in the Hawaiian Islands, and Known to the Hawaiians to Possess Curative and Palliative Properties Most Effective in Removing Physical Ailments (Honolulu: Board of Health of the Territory of Hawaii, 1922), ed. by D. M. Kaaiakamanu and J. K. Akina, trans. by Akaiko Akana (page images at HathiTrust)

• Herbal Dietary Supplements: Examples of Deceptive or Questionable Marketing Practices and Potentially Dangerous Advice (Washington: United States Government Accountability Office, 2010), by Gregory D. Kutz (PDF with commentary at gao.gov)

• Ellingwood's Therapeutist, ed. by Finley Ellingwood (partial serial archives)

• American Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to the American Plants Used as Homoeopathic Remedies: Their History, Preparation, Chemistry and Physiological Effects (New York and Philadelphia: Boericke and Tafel, c1887), by Charles Frederick Millspaugh (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Magic Gardens: A Modern Chronicle of Herbs and Savory Seeds (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by Rosetta E. Clarkson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Seasoning Secrets: Herbs and Spices (c1949), by Carson Gulley (page images at Wisconsin)

• Magic Gardens: A Modern Chronicle of Herbs and Savory Seeds (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by Rosetta E. Clarkson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old-Time Herbs for Northern Gardens (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1938), by Minnie Watson Kamm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Green Enchantment: The Magic Spell of Gardens (New York: Macmillan, 1940), by Rosetta E. Clarkson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)

• The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie: Containing the Necessary, Rational, and Universal Rules for Epick, Dramatick, and the Other Sorts of Poetry (London: Printed by T.N. for H. Herringman, 1674), by René Rapin, trans. by Thomas Rymer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

• A Geographical Historie of Africa (London: G. Bishop, 1600), by Leo Africanus, trans. by John Pory
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
  • Volume I: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume I, second edition: HTML at ECCO TCP
  • volume II: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: HTML at ECCO TCP
  • 2 volumes in 1: page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
• The Travels of Ibn Batūta;: Translated from the Abridged Arabic Manuscript Copies Preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge, With Notes Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiques, &c Occurring Throughout the Work (London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Committee, 1829), by Ibn Batuta, ed. by Samuel Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1784), by Anthony Benezet (Gutenberg text)
• A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1785), by Anthony Benezet
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-Wealths Thorowout the World, Discoursing of Their Situations, Religions, Languages, Manners, Customes, strengths, Greatnesse, and Policies (London: Printed by I. Haviland for I. Partridge, 1630), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms and Common-Weales Thorough the World, Discoursing of Their Scituations, Manners, Customes, Strengthes and Pollicies (London: Printed for J. Jaggard, 1611), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.