1843 –1859 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843.
Part 1: Flora of Lord Auckland and Campbell's Islands (1843-45); Part 2: Flora of Fuegia, the Falklands, Karguellen's land, etc. (1845-47); Part 3: Flora of New Zealand. 2 vols. (1851-53); Part 4: Flora of Tasmania. 2…
GMN 7448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9620
1849 –1851 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911); HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (1785 – 1865)
The rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya: Being an account, botanical and geographical, of the rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a government botanical mission to that country
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15932
1870 TRIANA SILVA, José Jerónimo (1828 – 1890); MUTIS, José Celestino (1732 – 1808)
Nouvelles études sur les quinquinas, d'après les matériaux présentés en 1867 à l'Exposition universelle de Paris et accompagnées de facsimilé des dessins de la quinologie de Mutis, suivis de remarques sur la culture de quinquinas.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13675 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15957
1892 –1897 WILLIAMS, Benjamin Samuel (1822 – 1890); MOORE, Thomas (1821 – 1887); WARNER, Robert (1814 – 1896); FITCH, John Nugent (1840 – 1927)
The orchid album, Comprising colored figures and descriptions of new, rare, and beautiful orchidaceous plants. Conducted by Robert Warner and Benjamin Samuel Williams. The botanical descriptions by Thomas Moore. The coloured figures by John Nugent Fitch. 11 vols.
This set includes 528 chromolithographed and hand-colored plates by John Nugent Fitch on 527 sheets. It was published periodically by B. S. Williams from his nurseries in Holloway, London, from 1882 until his death in…
GMN 12885 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15132
1938 DUNTHORNE, Gordon
Flower and fruit prints of the 18th and Early 19th centuries: Their history, makers and uses, with a catalogue raisonné of the works in which they are found.
GMN 11775 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13976
1940 CRUZ, Martin De La; EMMART, Emily Walcott (1898 – ); BADIANO, Juan (1484 – 1552)
The Badianus manuscript. (Codex Barberini, Latin, 241) Vatican Library. An Aztec herbal of 1552. Edited and translated by Emily W. Emmart.
The earliest complete Mexican medical text and the only medical text known to be the work of native Aztecs. Written by an Aztec physician named by the Spanish Martin de la Cruz, and translated into Latin by another na…
GMN 1811.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2009
1951 –1952 NISSEN, Claus (1901 – 1975)
Die botanische Buchillustration: Ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie. 2 vols.
GMN 7113 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9280
1966 HEILMANN, Karl Eugen
Kräuterbücher in Bild und Geschichte.
GMN 2068.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2407
1979 RAPHAEL, Sandra; BLUNT, Wilfrid Jasper Walter (1901 – 1987)
The illustrated herbal.
GMN 7464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9636
1980 –1990 BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820); SOLANDER, Daniel Carlsson (1733 – 1782); PARKINSON, Sydney (1745 – 1771)
Banks' Florilegium: A publication in thirty-four parts [plus 1 supplement] of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage around the world in the H.M.S. Endeavour 1768-1771. The specimens were gathered and classified by The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Daniel Solander, and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784 after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson. 35 large folio solander boxes & 1 vol. text.
Banks' Florilegium has been called the largest fine art printing project of the 20th century. It is the first complete publication in color of the 734 folio size copperplate engravings of newly discovered plants colle…
GMN 9495 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11680
1990 BRIDSON, Gavin Douglas Ruthven (1936 – 2008); WHITE, James J.
Plant, animal & anatomical illustration in art & science: A bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day.
The first comprehensive listing of primary instructional or "how to draw" books, and non-scientific iconographical "pattern" books, published for artists and designers in the widest range of subjects concerning plants…
GMN 7025 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9192
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
1994 BLUNT, Wilfrid Jasper Walter (1901 – 1987); STEARN, William Thomas (1911 – 2001)
The art of botanical illustration.
First edition by Blunt, 1950.
GMN 11973 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14180
2000 COLLINS, Minta
Medieval herbals: The illustrative traditions.
A study of illuminated medieval herbals from 512-1450 CE.
GMN 7193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9360
2012 KUSUKAWA, Sachiko
Picturing the book of nature: Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany.
GMN 8389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10566
2013 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – )
De materia medica. Il Discoride di Napoli (Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli - Ms ex-Vindobonense Greco 1, VI-VII sec d. C. 2 vols.
Translation into Italian of the text of the Naples Dioscorides, a 6-7th century illustrated manuscript. With color facsimiles of the original paintings in the manuscript, 243 modern drawings in color. Foreword by Maur…
GMN 10908 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13104
2014 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); WHIPKEY, Anna; KALBAUGH, Kirby; FRANZ, Audra; JANICK, Jules (1931 – )
A database for three Dioscoridean illustrated herbals.
"Abstract. An image database was developed for three illustrated recensions of the nonillustrated manuscript of Dioscorides entitled ... (De Materia Medica in Latin; On Medical Matters in English) written in approxima…
GMN 10909 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13105
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