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Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A choice garden of all sorts of rarest flowers, with their nature, place of birth, time of flowring, names and virtues to each plant, useful in physick, or admired for beauty : : to which is annexed a Kitchin-garden furnished with all manner of herbs, roots and fruits, for meat or sauce used with us, etc

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1656.
Call number: 145318
Creator: Parkinson, John (1567-1650)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 9022107582
Dimensions: Folio
Associated people: Poor.
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