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
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Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others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
