A plantation of cochineal cacti (Nopalea cochenillifera) with workers gathering and preparing cochineal. Engraving.

Cochineal cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera) with insects that feed on it, including the cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.

Traité de la culture du nopal : et de l'éducation de la cochenille dans les colonies françaises de l'Amérique. Précédé d'un voyage a Guaxaca ... Auquel on a ajouté une préface, des notes & des observations relatives à la culture de la cochenille ... / Le tout recueilli & publié par le Cercle des Philadelphes établi au Cap-Français.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 24.1 x 19 cm

6 unnumbered leaves, 175 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations, plate ; (8vo)

Natuerlyke historie van de couchenille, beweezen met authentique documenten. Histoire naturelle de la cochenille, justifiée par des documens authentiques / [Melchoir de Ruusscher].

71 items (volumes, files or bundles of papers) Holograph manuscripts and typescripts, held as volumes, files or bundles of papers.

Notes and extracts on vegetable materia medica, botany, etc. (with the exception of MS.2882, which deals with British insects, and MS.7961 which consists of general correspondence).

Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica

Specification of Abraham Foster : compound for the cure of the ague.

Spanish red : an ethnogeographical study of cochineal and the Opuntia cactus / R.A. Donkin.

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Cochineal cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera) with insects that feed on it, including the cochineal insect (Dactylopius coccus). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.

Natuerlyke historie van de couchenille, beweezen met authentique documenten. Histoire naturelle de la cochenille, justifiée par des documens authentiques / [Melchoir de Ruusscher].

Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica

Specification of Abraham Foster : compound for the cure of the ague.

Spanish red : an ethnogeographical study of cochineal and the Opuntia cactus / R.A. Donkin.