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John Ray, with a vignette of Britannia crowning Ray as the prince of English botanists. Stipple engraving by W. Holl, 1804, after T. Uwins and Mary Beale.

John Ray. Line engraving by A. de Bloys after W. Elder after W. Faithorne.

John Ray. Line engraving by W. H. Lizars after Mary Beale.

John Ray, Sir William Temple, and Sir Christopher Wren. Engraving.

John Ray. Line engraving after W. Faithorne.

Scientists / edited, with an introduction, by H.A. Feisenberger.

John Ray. Stipple engraving by H. Meyer after Mary Beale.

Select remains of the learned John Ray ... with his life / by the late William Derham ... Published by George Scott.

Historia plantarum generalis. Species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens ... / [John Ray].

Catalogus plantarum Angliae, et insularum adjacentium: tum indigenas, tum in agris passim cultas complectens ... / [John Ray].

Methodus plantarum nova, brevitatis et perspicuitatis causa synoptice in tabulis exhibita. Cum notis generum tum summorum tum subalternorum characteristicis, observationibus nonnullis de seminibus plantarum & indice copioso / Autore Joanne Raio.

A compleat collection of English proverbs; also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages. The whole methodically digested and illustrated with annotations, and proper explanations / By the late Rev. and learned J. Ray ... To which is added, (written by the same author) a collection of English words not generally used, with their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues; the one, of such as are proper to the northern, the other, to the southern counties. With an account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are gotten in England.

Miscellaneous discorurses concerning the dissolution and changes of the world. Wherein the primitive chaos and creation ... are largely discussed and examined / John Ray.

The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation. In two parts. Viz. The heavenly bodies, elements, meteors, fossils, vegetables, animals (beasts, birds, fishes, and insects), more particularly in the body of the earth, its figure, motion and consistency; and in the admirable structure of the bodies of man and other animals; as also in their generation, &c. With answers to some objections / By John Ray, F.R.S.

Phoenix persicus : die Geschichte der Dattelpalme / Engelbert Kaempfer ; Einleitung, Übersetzung aus dem Lateinischen und Bearbeitung von Wolfgang Muntschick.

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Ray, John, 1627-1705

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Miscellaneous discorurses concerning the dissolution and changes of the world. Wherein the primitive chaos and creation ... are largely discussed and examined / John Ray.

Phoenix persicus : die Geschichte der Dattelpalme / Engelbert Kaempfer ; Einleitung, Übersetzung aus dem Lateinischen und Bearbeitung von Wolfgang Muntschick.

Historia plantarum generalis. Species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens ... / [John Ray].