1968 WASSON, Robert Gordon (1898 – 1986)
Soma: Divine mushroom of immortality.
Ethnomycologist and banker Wasson provided evidence for the important role that hallucinogenic mushrooms - in particular the ubiquitous mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) - play in various ancient and modern cultu…
GMN 9848 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12036
1970 VOGEL, Virgil J. (1918 – 1994)
American Indian medicine.
Volume 95 of The Civililization of the American Indian Series.
GMN 6467.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7641
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 SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001); WASSÉN, S. Henry (1908 – 1996); ET AL
A medicine-man's implements and plants in a Tiahuanacoid tomb in highland Bolivia, (Etnologiska studier, 32). Edited by Henry Wassén.
Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia. The first reference to the site in modern history was recorded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León, who came upon …
GMN 9021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11200
1972 MEAD, George R.
The ethnobotany of the California Indians: A compendium of the plants, their users, and their uses.
Revised, expanded, and updated edition, La Grande, OR: E-Cat Worlds, 2014.
GMN 9918 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12106
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
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
1973 BLACK, Meredith Jean
Algonquin ethnobotany: An Interpretation of aboriginal adaptation in Southwestern Quebec. 2 vols.
GMN 9274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11456
1973 REIS, Siri Sylvia Patricia von (1931 – )
Drugs and foods from little-known plants: Notes in Harvard University herbaria.
5178 field notes of health and medical interest from specimens in Harvard University herbaria.
GMN 10898 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13094
1974 HELLSON, John C.
Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.
GMN 9285 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11467
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
1975 HAMEL, Paul B.; CHILTOSKY, Mary U.
Cherokee plants their uses - a 400 year history.
GMN 9270 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11452
1975 AMERICAN HERBAL PHARMACOLOGY DELEGATION
Herbal pharmacology in the People's Republic of China: A trip report of the American Herbal Pharmacology Delegation. Submitted to the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China.
Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.
GMN 9345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11527
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 –1990 THEOPHRASTUS OF ERESOS (ΘΕΌΦΡΑΣΤΟΣ) (371 – 287); EINARSON, Benedict (1906 – 1978); LINK, George Konrad Karl (1888 – )
Theophrastus: De causis plantarum Books 1-2, Books 3-4, Books 5-6. Edited and translated by Benedict Einarson and George K.K. Link. 3 vols.
GMN 9616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11803
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
1978 HOFMANN, Albert (1906 – 2008); WASSON, Robert Gordon (1898 – 1986); RUCK, Carl A. P. (1935 – )
The road to Eleusis: Unveiling the secret of the mysteries.
Argues that the psycho-active ingredient in the secret kykeion potion used in the Eleusinian mysteries was most likely the ergotism causing fungus Claviceps purpurea. Furthermore the book introduced the term "entheoge…
GMN 10168 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12357
1979 RAPHAEL, Sandra; BLUNT, Wilfrid Jasper Walter (1901 – 1987)
The illustrated herbal.
GMN 7464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9636
1979 ERICHSEN-BROWN, Charlotte
Uses of plants for the past 500 years.
Reissued as Medicinal and other uses of North American plants: A historical survey with special reference to the Eastern Indian tribes (1989).
GMN 8595 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10772
1980 HOFMANN, Albert (1906 – 2008); SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001); KLÜVER, Heinrich (1897 – 1979)
The botany and chemistry of hallucinogens. By Richard Schultes and Albert Hofmann. With a forward by Heinrich Klüver. Revised and enlarged second edition.
GMN 8794 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10972
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
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 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
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
1982 CHILTON, Mary-Dell (1939 – ); TEMPÉ, Jacques; TEPFER, David A.; ET AL
Agrobacterium rhizogenes inserts T-DNA into the genomes of the host plant root cells.
Chilton was the first (1977) to demonstrate the presence of a fragment of Agrobacterium Ti plasmid DNA in the nuclear DNA of crown gall tissue. Her research on Agrobacterium also showed that the genes responsible for …
GMN 14018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16325
1983 SCHELL, Baron Jozef Stefaan "Jeff" (1935 – 2003); VAN MONTAGU, Baron Marc (1933 – ); ET AL
Expression of chimaeric genes transferred into plant cells using a Ti-plasmid-derived vector.
Schell and Montagu discovered the gene transfer mechanism between Agrobacterium and plants, which resulted in the development of methods to alter Agrobacterium into an efficient delivery system for gene engineering in…
GMN 13989 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16292
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 BARR, Andy
Traditional bush medicines: An aboriginal pharmacopoeia.
Aboriginal Communities of the Northern Territory of Australia. Collated and researched by Andy Barr, project manager; Joan Chapman, pharmacist; Nick Smith, botanist, Maree Beveridge, computer operator; Terry Knight, p…
GMN 7221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9389
1988 –2006 THEOPHRASTUS OF ERESOS (ΘΕΌΦΡΑΣΤΟΣ) (371 – 287); AMIGUES, Suzanne
Théophraste. Recherches sur les plantes. Texte établi et traduit par Suzanne Amigues. 5 vols.
GMN 8568 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10745
1988 FORTUINE, Robert (1934 – 2009)
The use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.
GMN 9291 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11473
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
1988 DIETRICH, Albert (1912 – 2015)
Dioscurides triumphans: Ein anonymer arabischer Kommentar (Ende 12. Jh. n. Chr.) zur Materia medica. Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Übersetzung. 2 vols.
GMN 13357 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15628
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
1989 CRELLIN, John K.; PHILPOTT, Jane
Herbal medicine past and present. Vol. 1: Trying to give ease: Tommie Bass and the story of herbal medicine. Vol. 2: A reference guide to medicinal plants: Herbal medicine past and present.
GMN 8863 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11041
1989 ESTRELLA AGUIRRE, Eduardo (1941 – 1996); TAFALLA NAVASCUÉS, Juan José (1755 – 1811)
Flora Huayaquilensis sive descriptiones et icones plantarum Huayaquilensium secundum systema linneanum digestae, auctore Johanne Tafalla. Tomus 1: Introductio historica et adnotationes ab Eduardo Estrella confectae et descriptiones. Tomus II: Icones.
Juan José Tafalla Navascués, a Spanish pharmacist, explored botany in Peru, Chile and Ecuador from 1780 to 1788 as part of the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú under the direction of Hipólito Ruiz López y Jo…
GMN 9050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11229
1989 NICOLAUS OF DAMASCUS, [Νικόλαος Δαμασκηνός; Nicolaus Damascenus] (-64 – ); LULOFS, Hendrik Joan Drossaart (1906 – 1998); POORTMAN, E. L. J.
De plantis: Five translated. Edited and introduced by H. J. Drossaart Lulofs and E. L. J. Poortman.
On Plants (De Plantis), sometimes attributed to Aristotle, is generally believed to have been written by Nicolaus of Damascus in the first century BCE. It is divided into two parts: "The first part discusses the natur…
GMN 9140 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11319
1989 MOORE, Michael Roland Shaw (1941 – 2009)
Medicinal plants of the desert and canyon West.
GMN 9342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11524
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
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 ORTIZ DE MONTELLANO, Bernard R.
Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.
GMN 7513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9685
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
1990 SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001); RAFFAUF, Robert F. (1916 – 2001)
The healing forest: Medicinal and toxic plants of the Northwest Amazonia.
GMN 13343 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15611
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