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The Garden of Eden. Or, An accurate description of all flowers and fruits now growing in England, : with particular rules how to advance their nature and growth, as well in seeds and herbs, as the secret ordering of trees and plants. By that learned and great observer, Sir Hugh Plat, Knight. And now published by the author's own manuscript

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1653 [i.e. 1652]
Call number: 18664 v.1
Creator: Plat, Hugh (1552-1608)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 8vo
Associated people: Bellingham, Charles.; Poor, Henry W.
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