1740 SÉGUIER, Jean-François (1703 – 1784)
Bibliotheca botanica sive catalogus auctorum et librorum omnium qui de re botanica, de medicamentis ex vegetabilibus paratis, de re rustica, & de horticultura tractant. Accessit bibliotheca botanica Jo. Ant. Bumaldi seu potius O. Montalbani.
Organized in three parts: floras, medical botany, and horticultural and agricultural works. Séguier includes books, pamphlets, and references in the periodical literature. "The entries for the publications contain usu…
GMN 8856 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11034
1760 RAY, John (1628 – 1705); DERHAM, William (1657 – 1735); SCOTT, George Lewis (1708 – 1780)
Select remains of the learned John Ray, M.A. and F.R.S. with his life by the late William Derham, D. D. Canon of Windsor, and F.R.S. Published by George Scott, M.A. and F.R.S.
Because Derham died in 1735 this biography would have been written in the early part of the 18th century after the death of Ray in 1705. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14948
1854 –1857 MEYER, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich (1791 – 1858)
Geschichte der Botanik. 4 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8965 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11144
1866 LANGKAVEL, Bernhard August (1825 – 1902)
Botanik der spaeteren Griechen vom dritten bis dreizehnten Jahrhuntert.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8963 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11142
1872 –1877 PRITZEL, Georg August (1805 – 1874)
Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium inde a rerum botanicarum initiis ad nostra usque tempora. Quindecim millia operum recensens. Editionem novam reformatam.
First published in 1851, this documents literature from ancient times to publication date. Research involved examination of 40,000 works in libraries at Vienna, Geneva, London, Paris and various German locations. Digi…
GMN 9069 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11248
1881 BRETSCHNEIDER, Emil (1833 – 1901)
Early European researches into the flora of China.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15255
1897 –1904 JORET, Charles (1839 – 1914)
Les plantes dans l'antiquité et au moyen âge. Histoire, usages et symbolisme. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 11935 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14140
1914 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
Some American medical botanists commemorated in our botanical nomenclature.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10725
1922 ROHDE, Eleanour Sophy Sinclair (1881 – 1950)
The old English herbals.
Reprinted London, Minerva Press, 1972.
GMN 2048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2258
1924 –1929 MEISEL, Max
A bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9264
1925 KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943)
Catalogue of early herbals.
GMN 2050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2262
1928 MACHT, David Israel (1882 – 1961)
The holy incense: A botanical, pharmacological, psychological and archaeological appreciation of the Bible.
GMN 9943 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12131
1929 FISCHER, Hermann (1884 – 1936)
Mittelalterliche Pflanzenkunde.
Reprint, with a forward by Johannes Steudel. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2001.
GMN 11936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14141
1933 LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778); SOULSBY, Basil H. (1864 – 1933)
A catalogue of the works of Linnaeus (and publications more immediately relating thereto) perserved in the libraries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) and the British Museum (Natural History) (South Kennsington). Second edition
Includes a vast number of works theses and orations, of works edited by or supervised by Linnaeus or written with his cooperation. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 11233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13430
1938 ARBER, Agnes Robertson (1879 – 1960)
Herbals: their origin and evolution. A chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. 2nd edition.
Includes an invaluable bibliography. Reprinted, with new introduction and additional references, 1987.
GMN 2059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2316
1949 THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)
A dictionary of Assyrian botany.
GMN 8514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10691
1952 MOLDENKE, Harold Norman (1909 – 1996); MOLDENKE, Alma Lance Ericson (1908 – 1997)
Plants of the Bible.
The most comprehensive treatise available on plants and plant products mentioned in the Bible.
GMN 2068 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2362
1956 MCKELVEY, Susan Delano (1883 – 1964)
Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.
Reprinted with a new introduction and bibliographical supplement by Stephen Dow Beckham, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1991.
GMN 7238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9407
1956 ANDRÉ, Jacques
Lexique des termes de botanique en latin.
GMN 8957 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11136
1958 –1961 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); QUINBY, Jane (1901 – 1965); STEVENSON, Allan Henry (1903 – 1970); HUNT, Rachel McMasters Miller (1884 – 1963)
Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.
Ostensibly the catalogue of Rachel McMasters Hunt's private collection, which she donated to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, this is much more than a finely printed, luxur…
GMN 8744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10922
1961 BARTLETT, Harley Harris (1886 – 1960); SHOHARA, Hide
Japanese botany during the period of wood-block printing.
I. An essay on the development of natural history, especially botany, in Japan; on the influence of early Chinese & Western contacts; on Japanese books & wood-block illustration. II. An exhibition of Japanese books & …
GMN 10949 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13145
1966 HEILMANN, Karl Eugen
Kräuterbücher in Bild und Geschichte.
GMN 2068.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2407
1970 LAMBERT, Aylmer Bourke (1761 – 1842); MILLER, Hortense S.
The herbarium of Aylmer Bourke Lambert: Notes on Its acquisition, dispersal, and present whereabouts,
"Lambert acquired a number of significant herbarium collections including those of Johann Reinhold Forster, Archibald Menzies and Henry de Ponthieu.[2] He also amassed a large collection of specimens and drawings from…
GMN 13327 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15594
1971 SEZGIN, Fuat (1924 – )
Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 4, Alchimie, Chemie, Botanik, Agrikultur bis ca. 430H.
GMN 7389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9561
1971 STAFLEU, Frans Antonie (1921 – 1997)
Linnaeus and the Linneans: The spreading of their ideas in systematic botany, 1735-1789.
GMN 11963 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14170
1972 ULLMANN, Manfred (1931 – )
Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam.(Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abteilung, Ergänzungsband VI, 2).
Concerns zoology, botany, mineralogy, alchemy, astrology, magic, agriculture, the largest section being devoted to alchemy.
GMN 12526 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14761
1975 HENREY, Blanche Elizabeth Edith (1906 – 1983)
British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800. 3 vols.
A comprehensive history and bibliography of the subject, including a revised history of the English herbal literature, and accounts of other books of medical and pharmaceutical interest.
GMN 2068.18 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2466
1976 –2009 STAFLEU, Frans Antonie (1921 – 1997); COWAN, Richard Sumner (1921 – 1997)
Taxonomic literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types
The entire set is available in digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. (Authors and publishers of the Supplements vary.)
GMN 8857 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11035
1976 KEYNES, Sir Geoffrey Langdon (1887 – 1982); RAY, John (1628 – 1705)
John Ray, 1627-1705: A bibliography, 1660-1970: A descriptive bibliography of the works of John Ray ... with introductions, annotations, various indexes, and a supplement of new entries, additions and corrections by the author, Sir Geoffrey Keynes.
This is the "best" edition. The original edition issued in London by Faber & Faber in 1951 was a far superior example of book production, printed on thick greenish paper.
GMN 11205 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13402
1979 RAPHAEL, Sandra; BLUNT, Wilfrid Jasper Walter (1901 – 1987)
The illustrated herbal.
GMN 7464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9636
1981 WALTERS, Stuart Max (1920 – 2005)
The shaping of Cambridge botany: A short history of whole-plant botany in Cambridge from the time of Ray into the present century. Published on the sequicentenary of Henslow's New Botanic Garden, 1831-1981.
GMN 11959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14166
1981 MORTON, Alan G.
History of botanical science: An account of the development of botany from ancient times to the present day.
GMN 11965 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14172
1981 GUNN, Mary Davidson (1899 – 1989); CODD, Leslie Edward Wostall (1908 – 1999)
Botanical exploration of Southern Africa: A illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora. Biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.
GMN 12776 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15022
1982 RUDOLPH, Emanuel David (1927 – 1992)
Women in nineteenth century American botany; a generally unrecognized constituency.
Digital facsimile from jstor.org at this link.
GMN 11414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13613
1984 EVENARI, Michael (1904 – 1989)
Seed physiology: Its history from antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century.
GMN 11225 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13422
1985 RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )
Dioscorides on pharmacy and medicine.
GMN 8567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10744
1985 ANDRÉ, Jacques
Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique.
GMN 8958 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11137
1986 VAN RHEEDE TOT DRAKENSTEIN, Hendrik Adriaan (1636 – 1691); HENIGER, Johannes (1941 – )
Henrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus: A contribution to the history of Dutch colonial botany
GMN 12963 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15210
1988 ZOHARY, Daniel (1926 – ); HOPF, Maria (1914 – 2008); WEISS, Ehud
Domestication of plants in the old world: The origin and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin.
Revised 4th edition, 2012.
GMN 9721 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11908
1989 RAPHAEL, Sandra
An Oak Spring sylva: A selection of the rare books on trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library.
GMN 7460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9632
1990 RAPHAEL, Sandra
An Oak Spring pomona: A selection of the rare books on fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library.
GMN 7459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9631
1990 LEFANU, William Richard (1904 – 1995); GREW, Nehemiah (1641 – 1712)
Nehemiah Grew: A study and bibliography of his writings
GMN 11232 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13429
1991 REEDS, Karen M.
Botany in medieval and renaissance universities.
Reprints Reeds, "Publishing scholarly books in the sixteenth century," Scholarly Publishing (April, 1983), 259-274.
GMN 10265 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12456
1992 JOHNSTON, Stanley H. Jr. (1932 – 2013)
The Cleveland herbal, botanical, and horticultural collections: A descriptive bibliography of pre-1830 works from the libraries of the Holden Arboretum, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Garden Center of Cleveland.
GMN 9568 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11754
1994 BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629); BARKER, Nicolas (1928 – )
Hortus Eystettensis: The bishop's garden and Besler's magnificent book.
GMN 8462 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10639
1994 DESMOND, Ray (1925 – )
Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturalists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers.
Completely revised and updated second edition.
GMN 11969 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14176
1995 SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001); REIS, Siri Sylvia Patricia von (1931 – ); ET AL
Ethnobotany: Evolution of a discipline. Edited by Richard Schultes and Siri Sylvia von Reis.
GMN 7018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9185
1996 MINELLI, Allesandro (1948 – )
The botanical garden of Padua 1545-1995. Translated by Gus Barker.
GMN 8717 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10895
1997 TOMASI, Lucia Tongiorgi (1939 – )
An Oak Spring flora: Flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time. A selection of rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon.
GMN 7461 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9633
1998 HERNÁNDEZ BERMEJO, J. Esteban; GARCÍA SANCHEZ, Expiración
Economic botany and ethnobotany in Al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula: Tenth-Fifteenth Centuries), an unknown heritage of mankind.
GMN 12527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14762
