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  • Beilage zu Dr. Helm's Pflanzen-Album : Inhalt: gummierte Streifen zum Befestigen der Pflanzen.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Purple striped tulip (Tulipa species): flower and leaves. Watercolour.
  • Marcelli Malpighii ... Anatome plantarum. Cui subjungitur appendix, iteratas et auctas ejusdem authoris de ovo incubato observationes continens / Regiae Societati, Londini ad scientiam naturalem promovendam institutae dicata.
  • Beilage zu Dr. Helm's Pflanzen-Album : Inhalt: gummierte Streifen zum Befestigen der Pflanzen.
  • Botanologia. The English herbal: or history of plants ... / [William Salmon].
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Mandrake roots in the form of human figures, both naked and clothed; the mandrake plant itself (Mandragora officinarum L.); and a root of ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.). Engraving.
  • Betony (Stachys officinalis (L.) Trev.): flowering stem with separate leaves, floral segments and sections of root and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving after T. Sheldrake, c.1759.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives.
  • A stand of bushes. Watercolour.
  • A large oak tree (Quercus robur L.) sheltering cattle in open parkland. Etching after J.G.Strutt, 1823.
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].
  • Flora Londinensis. Or Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London: with their places of growth, and times of flowering; their several names according to Linnæus and other authors: with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English. To which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural œconomy and other arts / By William Curtis.
  • A plant, possibly cudweed (Gnaphalium species): flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • Minvs cognitarvm stirpivm aliqvot, ac etiam rariorvm nostro coelo orientivm [ekphrasis] Qua non paucae ab antiquioribus, Theophrasto, Dioscoride, Plinio, Galeno, alijsqúe memoratae declarantur, officinarum vsui perquam vtiles / Fabio Colvmna avctore. Item, de aquatilibus, aliisque animalibus quibusdam paucis libellus.
  • The gardener's dictionary. Containing, the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, flower, fruit, and pleasure garden; wherein all the articles contained in the former editions of this work, in two volumes, are disposed in one alphabet. With the addition of a great number of plants / [Philip Miller].
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Bilberry plant (Vaccinium myrtillus L.): flowering and fruiting stems with separate floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.
  • Cornflower or bachelor's-buttons (Centaurea cyanus L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.
  • Caroli Clvsii Atrebatis Cvrae posteriores, sev plurimarum non antè cognitarum, aut descriptarum stirpium, peregrinorumqúe aliquot animalium novae descriptiones: quibus & omnia ipsius opera, aliáque ab eo versa augentur, aut illustrantur / Acessit seorsim Everardi Vorstii ... de eiusdem Caroli Clvsii vita et obitu oratio, aliorumqúe epicedia.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia): stem with coloured autumn leaves. Watercolour.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Histoire admirable des plantes et herbes esmerueillables et miraculeuses en nature: mesmes d'aucunes qui sont vrays zoophytes, ou plant-animales. Plantes & animaux tout ensemble, pour auoir vie vegetatiue sensitiue & animale; avec leurs portraicts au naturel, selon les histoires, descriptions, voyages, & nauigations des anciens & modernes... / par M. Clavde Dvret.
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].