1591 CORTUSO, Giacomo Antonio (Cortusi) (1513 – )
L'horto dei semplici di Padova, oue si vede primieramente la forma di tutta la pianta con le sue misure: & indi i suoi partimenti distinti per numeri in ciascuna arella, intagliato in rame.
First catalogue of the Orto botanico di Padova, the oldest academic botanical garden that remains in its original location., Digital facsimile from fc.cab.unipd.it at this link.
GMN 13351 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15622
1596 GERARD, John (Gerarde) (1545 – 1612)
Catalogus arborum, fruticum, ac plantarum tam indigenarum, quam exoticarum, in horto Johannis Gerardi civis et chirurgi Londinensis nascentium.
This was the catalogue of John Gerarde's garden at Holborn, where he introduced exotic trees, fruits, and plants from the New World, and also grew widely available English plants. The text was very basic, being essent…
GMN 12003 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14211
1598 BELLEVAL, Pierre Richer de (1564 – 1632)
Onomatologia, seu nomenclatura stirpium quae in Horto Regio Monspeliensi recens constructo coluntur.
The first catalogue of medicinal plants in the Jardin des plantes de Montpellier, founded by Richer de Belleval in 1593. This was the first medical botanical garden in France. Reprinted in Opuscules de Pierre Richer d…
GMN 13347 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15618
1608 ROBIN, Jean (1550 – 1629); VALLET, Pierre (1575 – 1657)
Le Jardin du Roy tres chrestien Henry IV Roy de France et de Navarre dedie a la Royne.
Text by Robin, illustrations by Vallet. "The first important florilegium," (Blunt, The art of botanical illustration, 89-91). Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13205 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15466
1609 CONSTANT, Paul (1562 – 1629)
Le iardin, et cabinet poetique de Paul Contant, apoticaire de Poictiers.
Written in verse, this is the first catalogue of a private botanical garden published in France, and the first book that could be called a French catalogue of a natural history museum. Digital facsimile from the Inter…
GMN 11505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13704
1613 BESLER, Basilius (1561 – 1629)
Hortus Eystettensis: Sive, diligens et accurata omnium plantarum, florum, stirpium, ex variis orbis terrae partibus, singulari studio collectarum, quae in celeberrimis viridariis arcem episcopalem ibidem cingentibus, hoc tempore conspiciuntur, delineatio et aduiuum repræsentatio.
"The Hortus Eystettensis is itself a ‘paper museum’, a pictorial record of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, that of the Prince Bishop of Eichstätt, Johann Conrad von Gemmingen. As part of a…
GMN 9512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11697
1629 JOHNSON, Thomas ( – 1644)
Iter plantarum investigationis ergo susceptum a decem Sociis in Agrum Cantianum, anno Dom. 1629, Julii 13. Ericetum Hamstedianum sive Plantarum ibi crescentium observatio habita, anno eodem I. Augusti. Descripta studio, & opera Thomæ Iohnsoni.
Johnson, an apothecary published this record of what he collected during a herb-collecting excursion conducted on July 13, 1629, with an appendix recounting the results of a second excursion on August 1. This was the …
GMN 12000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14208
1635 CORNUT, Jacques-Philippe [Cornuti] (1606 – 1651)
Canadensium plantarum, aliarúmque nondum editarum historia.
First description of the Canadian Flora. Cornut was a French botanist and physician who never visited North America, but instead received the majority of his plant specimens from the Robins family, who supervised the …
GMN 8953 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11132
1640 LA BROSSE, Guy de (1589 – 1641)
L'ouverture du Jardin Royal de Paris, pour la demonstration des plantes medecinales.
La Brosse founded the Jardin des Plantes (originally Jardin du Roi), the first botanical garden in Paris. It was the second garden of this type in France, after the Jardin des plantes de Montpellier founded in 1593. D…
GMN 13346 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15617
1658 STEPHENS, Philip; BROWNE, William
Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis: Alphabeticè digestus, duas, præterpropter, plantarum chiliadas complectens, priore duplo auctior, ... : Cui accessere plantæ minimùm sexaginta suis nominibus insignitæ....Cura & opera socia Philippi Stephani et Guilelmi Brounei. Adhibitis etiam in consilium D. Boberto.
Catalogue of plants in the Oxford Botanic Garden, the oldest botanic garden in Great Britain. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13396 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15667
1683 SUTHERLAND, James (1638 – 1719)
Hortus medicus Edinburgensis, or, A catalogue of the plants in the Physical Garden at Edinburgh: Containing their most proper Latin and English names; with an English alphabetical index.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13076 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15328
1687 HERMANN, Paul (1646 – 1695)
Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi catalogus exhibens plantarum omnium nomina, quibus ab anno MDCLXXXI ad annum MDCLXXXVI hortus fuit instructus ut & plurimarum in eodem cultarum & à nemine hucusque editarum descriptiones & icones.
Catalogue of about 3300 plants in the botanical garden of Leiden University (106 illustrated), compiled, and with plates apparently drawn by the author. Hermann had only recently introduced many plants to Europe from …
GMN 12708 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14953
1689 COMMELIN, Jan [COMMELIJN] (1629 – 1692)
Catalogus plantarum Horti Medici Amstelodamensis. Pars prior.
First published catalogue of plants of the Hortus Medicus, precursor of the Hortus Botanicus. The Hortus Medicus, founded in 1682 under Commelin's guidance, was ranked among the most comprehensive in Europe, including…
GMN 13100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15352
1690 HERMANN, Paul (1646 – 1695); ZUMBACH VON KOESFELD, Lothar (1661 – 1727)
Florae Lugduno-Batavae flores sive enumeratio stirpium horti Lugduno-Batavi methodo, naturae vestigiis isistente, dispositarum, & anno 1689 in lectionibus tam publicis quam privatis expositarum a Paulo Hermann. Nunc vero in gratiam botanophilorum primum in lucem editarum opera Lothari Zumbach.
In this treatise on the flowering plants in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden Hermann coined the term Angiospermae as the name of one of his primary divisions of the plant kingdom. This division included flowering plants po…
GMN 11472 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13671
1697 –1701 COMMELIN, Jan [COMMELIJN] (1629 – 1692); COMMELIN, Caspar [COMMELIJN] (1668 – 1731)
Horti medici Amstelodamensis rariorum tam orientalis, quam occidentalis Indiae, aliarumque peregrinarum plantarum magno studio ac labore, sumptibus civitatis Amstelodamensis, longâ annorum serie collectarum, descriptio et icones ad vivum æri incisæ. Opus posthumum, latinitate donatum, notisque & observationibus illustratum, à Frederico Ruyschio & Francisco Kiggelario. 2 vols.
In 1682 Jan Commelin helped establish the Amsterdam Botanical Garden, which introduced many new exotic plants to Europe, collected during the voyages of the Dutch East and West India Companies (VOC and WIC) in the Eas…
GMN 7756 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9928
1697 MAGNOL, Pierre (1638 – 1715)
Hortus Regius Monspeliensis, sive catalogus plantarum quae in Horto Regio Monspeliensi demonstrantur.
An illustrated catalogue of plants on display in the Royal Botanical Garden of Montpellier. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15685
1698 HERMANN, Paul (1646 – 1695); SHERARD, William (1659 – 1728)
Paradisus Batavus, continens plus centum plantas affabrè aere incisas & descriptionibus illustratas. Cui accesit catalogus plantarum, quas pro tomis nondum editis, delineandas curaverat Paulus Hermannus, M. D. In Academia Lugduno-Batava nuper medicinae ac botanices professor. Opus posthumum.
Catalogue of the plants in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden, posthumously edited from Hermann's unpublished manuscript, and reproducing 111 of Hermann's botanical illustrations, by William Sherard. Digital facsimile from R…
GMN 11471 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13670
1710 BOERHAAVE, Herman (1668 – 1738)
Index plantarum, quae in Horto Academico Lugduno Batavo reperiuntur.
Upon his appointment as professor of medicine and botany at Leiden University in 1709, Boerhaave became head of the botanical garden, a laboratory for materia medica. He published his first catalogue of plants in the …
GMN 11628 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13828
1730 MILLER, Philip (1691 – 1771)
Catalogus plantarum, tum exoticarum tum domesticarum.... A catalogue of trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers, both exotic and domestic, which are proposed for Sale, In the gardens near London. Divided, according to their different degrees of hardiness, into particular books, or parts; in each of which the plants are ranged in an alphabetical order. To which are added, the characters of the genus; and an enumeration of all particular species which are at present to be found in the several nurseries near London, with directions for the proper soil and situation, in which each particular kind is found to thrive
A deluxe sale catalogue illustrated with 21 plates, including 7 mezzotints. "The Catalogus Plantarum is notable as one of the earliest flower books to contain plates printed in colors. It is perhaps unique in that one…
GMN 11974 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14182
1731 MILLER, Philip (1691 – 1771)
The gardeners dictionary: Containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit and flower garden. As also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory and vineyard, according to the practice of the most experienc'd gardeners of the present age. Interspers'd with the history of the plants, the characters of each genus, and the names of all the particular species, in Latin and English, and an explanation of all the terms used in botany and gardening.
Miller was chief gardener and curator (or 'Hortulanus') at the Apothecaries' (later Physic) Garden in Chelsea. Besides covering methods of cultivation, Miller's Dictionary provided a systematic botanical compendium of…
GMN 13393 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15664
1732 DILLENIUS, Johann Jacob Dillen (1684 – 1747); SHERARD, James (1666 – 1738)
Hortus Elthamensis seu plantarum rariorum quas in horto suo Elthami in cantio coluit vir ornatissimus et praestantissimus Jacobus Sherard, M. D. Soc. Reg. et Coll. Med. Lond. Soc. Guilielmi P.M. frater, delineationes et descriptiones quarum historia vel plane non, vel imperfecte a rei herbariae scriptoribus tradita fuit.
Catalogue of the rare plants growing at Eltham, London, in the collection of James Sherard, who, after making a fortune as an apothecary, devoted himself to gardening and music. For this work Dillenius wrote the text …
GMN 11747 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13947
1737 LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778); CLIFFORD, George III (1685 – 1760)
Hortus Cliffortianus plantas exhibens quas in hortistam vivis quam siccis, Hartecampi in Hollandia, coluit ...Georgius Clifford.
The largest and most attractive book by Linnaeus, describing and illustrating plants in the garden and herbarium of George Clifford, governor of the Dutch East India Company, at Clifford's summer estate, Harlecamp. Th…
GMN 7462 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9634
1789 AITON, William (1731 – 1793)
Hortus kewensis; or, a catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11957 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14164
1796 DONN, James (1783 – 1813)
Hortus cantabrigiensis, or a catalogue of plants, indigenous and foreign, cultivated in the Walkerian Botanic Garden, Cambridge.
The Walkerian Botanic Garden was the first botanical garden founded in Cambridge. It is the ancestor of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11958 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14165
1800 SPRENGEL, Kurt Polykarp Joachim (1766 – 1833)
Der botanische Garten der Universität zu Halle im Jahre 1799.
Digital facsimile from digitale-sammlungen.de at this link. Followed by Erster Nachtrag zu der Beschreibung des botanischen Gartens der Universität zu Halle (1801). Digital facsimile of the 1801 Nachtrag from bab-muen…
GMN 13392 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15663
1807 DELEUZE, Joseph-Philippe-François (1753 – 1835)
De l'établissement des principaux jardins de botanique.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Edited English translation by Roger L. Williams as "On the establishment of the principal gardens of botany: A bibliographical essay by Jean-Philippe-François Deleuze,…
GMN 13348 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15619
1808 SHEPHERD, John (1764 – 1836)
A catalogue of plants in the Botanic Garden, at Liverpool.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11955 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14162
1814 ROXBURGH, William (1751 – 1815)
Hortus Bengalensis, or, a catalogue of the plants growing in the East India Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10761 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12957
1842 –1843 GERVAIS, François Louis Paul (1816 – 1879); LE MAOUT, Jean-Emmanuel-Marie (1799 – 1877); COUAILHAC, Jean-Joseph-Louis (1810 – 1885); BERNARD, Pierre (1810 – 1876)
Le Jardin des plantes. Description complete, historique et pittoresque du Muséum d'histoire naturelle, de la ménagerie, des serres, des galeries de minéralogie et d'anatomie, et de la vallée suisse. Moeurs et instincts des animaux, botanique, anatomie comparée : minéralogie, géologie, zoologie. 2 vols. Title of vol. 2: Le jardin des plantes. Description complète, historique et pittoresque du Muséum d'histoire naturelle (oiseaux, reptiles, poissons, insectes et crustacés), par M. le docteur Emm. Lemaout.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13402 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15674
1845 VOIGT, Joachim Johann Otto (1798 – 1843)
Hortus suburbanus Calcuttensis. A catalog of the plants which were cultivated in the Hon. East India Company's Botanical Garden, Calcutta and in the Serampore Botanical Garden, known as Dr. Carey's Garden, from the beginning of both establishments (1786 and 1800) to the end of August 1841; drawn up according to the Jussieuan arrangement, and mostly in conformity with the second edition (1836) of Lindsay 's Natural System of Botany.
Catalogue of the thousands of plants which were cultivated in the East India Company’s Royal Botanical Garden in Shibpur (near Calcutta, founded in 1786) and ‘Dr. William Carey’s’ botanical garden in Serampore, Bengal…
GMN 10760 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12956
1845 PURSH, Frederick Traugott (1774 – 1820); DONN, James (1783 – 1813); LINDLEY, John (1799 – 1865); SINCLAIR, George (1787 – 1834)
Hortus cantabrigiensis, or, An accented catalogue of indigenous and exotic plants, cultivated in the Cambridge Botanical Garden. By the late James Donn, curator....With the additions and improvements of the successive editors, F. Pursh, J. Lindley, G. Sinclair. The thirteenth century, now further enlarged improved, and brought down to the present time by P. N. Don.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11960 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14167
1851 GOMES, Bernardino António the younger (1806 – 1877)
Catalogus plantarum horti botanici medicocirurgicae Scholae Olisponensis anno MDCCCLII.
Lists 1,863 plants in the botanical garden at the Escola Medico-Cirurgica of Lisbon, arranged by genus and species according to Decandolle’s classification. The authors note in which part of Europe, India, the America…
GMN 9068 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11247
1876 GERARD, John (Gerarde) (1545 – 1612); JACKSON, Benjamin Daydon (1846 – 1927)
A catalogue of plants cultivated in the garden of John Gerard, in the years 1596-1599. Edited with notes, references to Gerard's Herball, the addition of modern names, and a life of the author by Benjamin Daydon Jackson.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 12004 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14212
1879 MURTON, H. J.
Catalogue of the plants under cultivation in the botanical gardens, Singapore, Straits Settlements.
The first published catalogue of plants in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11954 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14161
1894 KRAUS, Gregor Konrad Michael (1841 – 1915)
Geschichte der Pflanzeneinführungen in die europäischen botanischen Gärten.
Digital facsimile from publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de at this link.
GMN 11967 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14174
1915 HILL, Sir Arthur William (1875 – 1941)
The history and functions of botanic gardens.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11962 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14169
1922 GOODYER, John (1592 – 1664); GUNTHER, Robert William Theodore (1869 – 1940); TRADESCANT, John The Elder (1575 – 1638)
Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others
Most of this book concerns John Goodyer, his life, his garden, a detailed 40-page catalogue of Goodyer's library, Goodyer's list of plants, lists of plants grown in English gardens, etc. Digital facsimile from Google …
GMN 12001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14209
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
1972 HARVEY, John Hooper (1911 – 1997)
Early gardening catalogues, with complete reprints of lists and accounts of the 16th-19th centuries.
GMN 11970 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14177
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 PREST, John (1929 – 2018)
The garden of eden: The botanic garden and the re-creation of paradise.
In the 15th century people still hoped that the original garden of Eden might be rediscovered, but in the 16th and 17th centuries efforts turned to collecting plants and attempting to re-create the wonder of the garde…
GMN 11966 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14173
1997 MCCRACKEN, Donal P. (1953 – )
Gardens of empire: Botanical institutions of the Victorian British Empire.
Provides "a detailed analysis of the foundation, extent, management and achievements of the 120 botanic gardens, herbaria and botanic stations - from Hong Kong to British Honduras, Malacca to the Gold Coast, Fiji to M…
GMN 11968 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14175
2001 WILLIAMS, Roger Lawrence (1923 – 2017)
Botanophilia in eighteenth-century France: The spirit of the Enlightenment.
GMN 13403 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15675
2007 DESMOND, Ray (1925 – )
History of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
GMN 11952 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14159
2010 FORMIGA, Alice Krinsky
A short history of the seed & nursery catalogue in Europe & the U.S.
http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/seed/introduction/collection/ "The OSU Seed and Nursery Trade catalogue collection contains over 2,000 items from 1832 to 1966. While the collection is most com…
GMN 11971 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14178
2016 BARNARD, Timothy P.
Nature's colony: Empire, nation and environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens.
GMN 11956 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14163
2017 SPENCER, Roger David (1945 – ); CROSS, Rob
The origins of botanic gardens and their relation to plant science, with special reference to horticultural botany and cultivated plant taxonomy.
Unusually well illustrated in color, with detailed bibliography, surveying the history from its origins in prehistory, the Neolithic revolution, to the present. Digital facsimile rbg.vic.gov.au at this link.
GMN 11964 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14171
