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  • A tropical plant (Gomphia crassifolia): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
  • Cream iris flowers. Watercolour by J. A. Sherlock, 1901.
  • A group of dead leaves. Watercolour.
  • Opera omnia, figuris elegantissimis in aes incisis illustrata : Tomis duobus comprehensa. Quorum catalogum sequens pagina exhibet / [Marcello Malpighi].
  • The herball, or general historie of plantes / Gathered by John Gerarde ... Very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson.
  • A tree, possibly siver birch (Betula pendula). Pencil drawing.
  • Six cut Ranunculus flowers: double-flowered varieties with leaves. Watercolour by Mrs. Montgomery.
  • Autumn leaves of bramble (Rubus species). Watercolour drawing.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • The botanical magazine, or, Flower-garden displayed ... / 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.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • The anatomy of plants / With an idea of a philosophical history of plants. And several other lectures. Read before the Royal Society.
  • Black bryony (Tamus communis): fruiting stem. Partially coloured pen drawing.
  • Rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum): flowering stem. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).
  • Ginger lily (Hedychium maximum): flowering stem. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • 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].
  • 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].
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Branches of scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). Pen drawing.
  • New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus : comprehending an elucidation of the several parts of the fructification ; a prize dissertation on the sexes of plants, a full explanation of the classes, and orders, of the sexual system ; and the Temple of Flora, or Garden of nature, being Picturesque, botanical, coloured plates, of select plants, illustrative of the same, with descriptions ; [motto: 4 lines] / by Robert John Thornton.
  • Asarabacca (Asarum europaeum L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments and cross-sections of the stem and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T. Sheldrake.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • A plant (Coutarea pubescens): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
  • A curious herbal, containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick ... To which is added a short description of ye plants; and their common uses in physick ... / [Elizabeth Blackwell].
  • Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V, quibus continentur variae relationes, observationes et descriptiones rerum Persicarum et ulterioris Asiae, multâ attentione / in peregrinationibus per universum Orientem, collectae. Ab auctore Engelberto Kaempfero, D.
  • Autumn leaves of hawthorn (Crataegus). Watercolour drawing.
  • The herball, or general historie of plantes / Gathered by John Gerarde ... Very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson.
  • 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].
  • Queens flower: flowering stem. Watercolour.