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Plant collectors - History

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7 works

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    The brother gardeners : botany, empire and the birth of an obsession / Andrea Wulf.

    | Andrea Wulf | Date: 2008
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    The plant hunters : the adventures of the world's greatest botanical explorers / Carolyn Fry.

    | Fry, Carolyn (Science writer) | Date: 2012
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    Herbarium Centrale Italicum (Phanerogamic Section) : the genesis and structure of a herbarium : the main collections, the collectors, the handwriting samples, and the personnel in its 150-year history = L'Herbarium Centrale Italicum (Sezione fanerogamica) : genesi e struttura di un erbario : le collezioni principali, i raccoglitori, le grafie, il personale in un secolo e mezzo di storia / Piero Cuccuini & Chiara Nepi.

    | Cuccuini, Piero | Date: 1999
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    French botany in the Enlightenment : the ill-fated voyages of La Pérouse and his rescuers / by Roger L. Williams.

    | Roger Lawrence Williams | Date: [2003]
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    André Michaux in Florida : an eighteenth-century botanical journey / Walter Kingsley Taylor and Eliane M. Norman.

    | Walter Kingsley Taylor | Date: [2002]
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Botany - History
Plant collecting - History
History, 18th Century
Botanists - History

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