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John Parkinson

(Parkinson, John, 1567-1650)

John Parkinson (1567–1650; buried 6 August 1650) was the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists. He was apothecary to James I and a founding member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in December 1617, and was later Royal Botanist to Charles I. He is known for two monumental works, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris (Park-in-Sun's Terrestrial Paradise, 1629), which generally describes the proper cultivation of plants; and Theatrum Botanicum (The Botanical Theatre or Theatre of Plants, 1640), the most complete and beautifully presented English treatise on plants of its time. One of the most eminent gardeners of his day, he kept a botanical garden at Long Acre in Covent Garden, today close to Trafalgar Square, and maintained close relations with other important English and Continental botanists, herbalists and plantsmen. (From Wikipedia)

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Parkinson, John, 1567-1650: Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris (reprint of the 1629 edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1904) (multiple formats at archive.org)
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650: Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, or, An Herball of Large Extent (London: Printed by T. Cotes, 1640) (page images at HathiTrust)

Additional books by John Parkinson in the extended shelves:

Parkinson, John, 1567-1650: Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris (Methuen & co., 1904) (page images at HathiTrust)
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650: Paradisi In Sole Paradisus terrestris. (T.N. Foulis, 1907), also by Alfred H. Hyatt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650: Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris (Printed by Hvmfrey Lownes and Robert Yovng, at the signe of the Starre on Bread-street hill, 1629), also by A. Switzer, Robert Young, and Humphrey Lownes (page images at HathiTrust)
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650: Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues (Gutenberg ebook)
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650: Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up. ([London : Printed by Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young at the signe of the Starre on Bread-street hill, [1629]]), also by A. Switzer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650: Theatrum botanicum = the theater of plants : or, An herball of a large extent ... (Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640) (page images at HathiTrust)
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650: Theatrum botanicum, the theater of plantes. (London : Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640), also by William Marshall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Parkinson, John, 1567-1650: Theatrum botanicvm: the theater of plants. Or, An herball of a large extent ... (Printed by T. Cotes, 1640) (page images at HathiTrust)

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