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  • Wood sage (Teucrium scorodonia): flowering stems and floral segments. Pen and watercolour drawings.
  • P. Bellonii Cenomani. De arboribus coniferis, resiniferis, aliis quoque nonnullis sempiterna fronde virentibus, com earundem iconibus ad viuum expressis. Item de melle cedrino, cedria, agarico, resinis et iis quae ex coniferis proficiscuntur / [Pierre Belon].
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • 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].
  • An oleaster plant (Elaeagnus species): flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • A border of trees, palms and herbaceous plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D. Coloured photograph.
  • 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].
  • Kreuterbůch, von natürlichem Nutz, und gründtlichem Gebrauch der Kreutter, Bäum, Gesteud, unnd Früchten, fürnemlich Teutscher Lande. Deszgleichen der Gethier, edlen Gesteyn, Metal, und anderer Simplicien und Stucken der Artznei. Mit aller deren fleissiger Beschreibung, und leblichen Abconterfeytungen. Distillierns Bereydtschafft, und Bericht, kostbarliche Wasser zubrennen, abziehen, halten, und zugebrauchen / [Eucharius Rösslin].
  • 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].
  • Iac. Cornvti ... Canadensivm planatarvm, aliarúmque nondum editarum historia. Cui adiectum est ad calcem enchiridion botanicvm Parisiense. Continens indicem plantarum, quae in pagis, siluis, pratis, et montosis iuxta Parisios locis nascuntur / [Jacques Philippe Cornut].
  • Iac. Cornvti ... Canadensivm planatarvm, aliarúmque nondum editarum historia. Cui adiectum est ad calcem enchiridion botanicvm Parisiense. Continens indicem plantarum, quae in pagis, siluis, pratis, et montosis iuxta Parisios locis nascuntur / [Jacques Philippe Cornut].
  • Flora Peruviana et Chilensis. Tomus IV / Hippolyto Ruiz et Josepho Pavon.
  • A group of trees. Wash drawing.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Mallow (Malva species): flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • 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].
  • 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.
  • Cudweed (Gnaphalium sanguineum L.): flowering plant 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.
  • Group of trees, possibly Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris). Pencil drawing.
  • Oak (Quercus species): leaves and stem, with a size scale. Pen drawing.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Botanic Gardens, Oxford: plan of the gardens with details of the gateway and greenhouses. Etching, 1707, after D. Loggan.
  • Leaves of oak (Quercus species). Watercolour drawings.
  • Pink flowers, possibly chrysanthemums, arranged in a bottle. Watercolour attributed to M. C. Stopes, 1898.
  • An Agave plant. Watercolour.
  • Flowers and stem, possibly of a double poppy (Papaver species). Ink drawing by M. Hasan.
  • An iris; flowers and birds; two ladies, one with a baby. Ink drawings.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Daffodils (Narcissus): flowers and leaves. Watercolour by H. R. Carpenter.