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  • A lily: flowering stem and leaves. Pencil drawing.
  • Three fern fronds. Chromolithograph after a nature print.
  • Jasmine (Jasminum officinale L.): flowering stem with floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H. Hemerich, c.1759, after T. Sheldrake.
  • The herball, or general historie of plantes / Gathered by John Gerarde ... Very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson.
  • Beilage zu Dr. Helm's Pflanzen-Album : Inhalt: gummierte Streifen zum Befestigen der Pflanzen.
  • A fruiting coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.
  • Honeysuckle (Lonicera species): flowering stem. Pencil drawing.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • A spreading sycamore tree (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) growing by a scenic lake. Etching after J.G.Strutt, 1825.
  • Seven tropical flowering plants, all species of the genus Gomphia. Coloured lithograph.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • Opera omnia, figuris elegantissimis in aes incisis illustrata : Tomis duobus comprehensa. Quorum catalogum sequens pagina exhibet / [Marcello Malpighi].
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].
  • The plant : a biography in a series of thirteen popular lectures / by M.J. Schleiden ; translated by Arthur Henfrey.
  • Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, et Bramanum characteribus hominibusque expressas ... addita ... descriptione, qua ... praecipuae in medicina vires ... demonstrantur / Adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein [sic] et Johannem Casearium [vols. III-V, J. Munnicks, vol. VI, T.J. van Almeloveen] .... Notis adauxit et commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen [vols. II-XII, J. Commelinus]. [Vols. VII-XII, In ordinem redegit et Latinitate donavit Abrahamus a Poot].
  • A plant (Diplusodon floribundus): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
  • Outline of a tall tree, dwarfing figure at its base. Pencil drawing.
  • [Phytobasanos] sive plantarum aliqvot historia. In qva describvntvr diversi generis plantæ veriores, ac magis facie, viribúsque respondentes antiquorum Theophrasti, Diocoridis, Plinij, Galeni, aliorúmque delineationibus, ab alijs hucusque non animaduersæ / Fabio Colvmna avctore. Accessit etiam piscivm aliqvot, plantarúmque nouarum historia eodem auctore.
  • De historia stirpivm commentarii insignes ... adiectis eorvndem vivis plvsqvam quingentis imaginibus ... Accessit ... uocum difficilium & obscurarum passim in hoc opere ocurrentium explicatio ... / [Leonhard Fuchs].
  • Herbarium / Oth. Brvnfelsii ; tomis tribvs exacto tandem studio, opera & ingenio, candidatis medicinae simplicis absolutum. Quorum contenta, index cuiusquam tomorum suo loco explicat.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Two ladies indoors contemplate a house plant which is loosing its foliage. Mezzotint.
  • An unidentified flowering plant. Watercolour by Etanmann (?).
  • Adder's tongue (Ophioglossum vulgatum L.): fertile stem with description of the plant and its medicinal uses. Coloured line engraving by J. Basire, the younger, c. 1759, after T. Sheldrake.
  • A plant (Tritonia xanthospila): flowering stem, bulb and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
  • A Justicia plant: flowering stem and root. Watercolour.
  • Herbarium / Oth. Brvnfelsii ; tomis tribvs exacto tandem studio, opera & ingenio, candidatis medicinae simplicis absolutum. Quorum contenta, index cuiusquam tomorum suo loco explicat.
  • Phytognomonica Io. Baptistae Portae Neap. octo libris contenta. In qvibvs nova, facillimaqve affertur methodus, qua plantarum, animalium, metallorum, rerumque denique omnium ex prima extimae faciei inspectione quiuis abditas vires assequatur. Accedvnt ad haec confirmanda infinita propemodu selectiora secreta. Summo labore, temporis dispendio, & impensarum iactura vestigata, explorataq; cvm privilegio / [Giambattista della Porta].
  • Theatrum botanicum: the theater of plants. Or, an herball of large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants that are in other authours, encreased by the access of many hundred new ... plants from all parts of the world, with sundry gummes, and other physicall material ... and a most large demonstration of their natures and vertues. Distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property ... collected ... / by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, and the Kings herbarist.
  • Thistle leaves in grass. Watercolour, pen and pencil drawings.