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

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

1656 WHARTON, Thomas (1614 – 1673); TRADESCANT, John The Elder (1575 – 1638); TRADESCANT, John the Younger (1608 – 1662); ASHMOLE, Elias (1617 – 1692)

Musaeum Tradescantianum: Or, a collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth neer London by John Tradescant.

Catalogue of the first natural museum in England, the collection made by John Tradescant the Elder and the Younger, and left by John Tradescant the Younger to Elias Ashmole, who, along with Thomas Wharton, helped the …

GMN 13071 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15323

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

1670 RAY, John (1628 – 1705)

Catalogus plantarum Angliae, et insularum adjacentium: tum indigenas, tum in agris passim cultas complectens.

Includes some ethnobotanical notes regarding medical remedies. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 9286 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11468

1686 –1704 RAY, John (1628 – 1705)

Historia plantarum.... 3 vols.

This massive catalogue begins with an extensive general botanical treatise covering plant physiology, plant nutrition and, most importantly, Ray's principles and methodology of botanical classification. Ray adopted Ju…

GMN 7090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9257

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

1696 SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)

Catalogus plantarum quae in insula Jamaica: Sponte proveniunt, vel vulgò coluntur cum earundem synonymis & locis natalibus, adjectis aliis quibusdam quae in insulis Maderae, Barbados, Nieves, & Sancti Christophori nascuntur, seu Prodromi historiae naturalis Jamaicae pars prima.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Archive at this link.

GMN 9915 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12103

1737 BURMAN, Johannes (1707 – 1780)

Thesaurus Zeylanicus exhibens plantas in Insula Zeylana nascentes; Inter quas plurimae novae species, & genera inveniuntur. Omnia Iconibus illustrata, ac descripta.

The first illustrated flora of Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon). Burman, a Dutch physician, was a friend and correspondent of Linnaeus and professor of botany. "Indeed, Linnaeus, as a guest at the Burman house, had a ha…

GMN 13263 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15529

1741 –1750 RUMPHIUS, Georg Eberhard (1627 – 1702); BURMAN, Johannes (1707 – 1780)

Het Amboinsche Kruidboek . . . Herbarium Amboinense . . . nunc primum in lucem edidit & in Latinum semonem vertit Joannes Burmannus. 6 vols.

Het Amboinsche kruidboek or Herbarium Amboinense, a catalogue of the plants of Ambon in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, by Georg Eberhard Rumphius, a German-born soldier and botanist employed by the Dutch East India …

GMN 6837 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9001

1743 GRONOVIUS, Jan Frederik (1690 – 1762); CLAYTON, John (1694 – 1773)

Flora Virginica exhibens plantas quas v. c. Johannes Clayton in Virginia observavit atque collegit. Easdem method sexuali-disposuit, ad genera propria retulit, nominbus specificis insignivit, & minus cognitas descriptsit.

The first flora of Virginia. As stated on the title page, Gronovius, a Dutch botanist, based this work on specimens collected by the Virginia plant collector and botanist John Clayton. While Clayton supplied the speci…

GMN 12478 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14711

1771 FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798); BOSSU, Jean Bernard (1720 – 1792)

Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana by Mr. Bossu, ... Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S. Illustrated with notes relative chiefly to natural history to which is added by the translator a systematic catalogue of all the known plants of English North America, or a Flora Americae Septentrionalis together with an abstract of the most useful and necessary articles contained in Peter Loefling's travels through Spain and Cumana in South America referred to the pages of the original Swedish edition. 2 vols.

This work is a series of 21 letters that Bossu wrote to the Marquis de L’Estrade describing his life and travels in the vast Louisiana country from 1751 to 1762. His ventures ranged from Fort Chartres, in present-day …

GMN 12472 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14705

1776 FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798); FORSTER, Johann Georg Adam (1754 – 1794)

Characteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas maris Australis, collegerunt, descripserunt, delinearunt, annis 1772-1775.

This account of botanical discoveries made by the Forsters in Australia and New Zealand on Cook's second voyage was one of the earliest scientific publications resulting from that voyage. Specimens were illustrated on…

GMN 12477 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14710

1790 –1814 SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828); SOWERBY, James (1757 – 1822)

English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth. To which will be added, occasional remarks. 36 vols.

Issued in parts. Images by Sowerby; text by Sir James Edward Smith. Only Sowerby is credited on the title page. Includes 2,592 hand-colored plates of British plants. "Buyers of this work today must exercise extreme ca…

GMN 13642 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15923

1793 –1795 WHITE, John (1756 – 1832); SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828); SOWERBY, James (1757 – 1822)

A specimen of the botany of New Holland

The first published book on the flora of Australia, issued by Sowerby in four parts between 1793 and 1795. It included 16 hand-colored plates reproducing paintings by Sowerby, mostly based on sketches by John White, a…

GMN 12951 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15198

1825 ADANSON, Aglaé (1775 – 1852)

Catalogue des arbres, arbrisseaux, arbustes et plantes vivaces, cultivés en pleine terre à Baleine [sic], près Moulins, département d'Allier.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

GMN 13480 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15754

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

1884 –1888 FRANCHET, Adrien René (1834 – 1900); DAVID, Jean Pierre Armand (1826 – 1900)

Plantae Davidianae ex Sinarum Imperio: Première partie: Plantes de Mongolie du Nord et du Centre de la Chine. Deuxieme Partie: Plantes du Thibet Oriental (Province de Moupine)

Catalogue of the very extensive collection of plants collected by the Lazarist missionary Father Armand David for the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle during his three major naturalist expeditions in China, Mongolia and Tib…

GMN 12947 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15194