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1843 CEA flora of the state of New-York, comprising full descriptions of all the indigenous and naturalized plants hitherto discovered in the state; with remarks on their economical and medicinal properties. 2 vols.
TORREY, John (1796 – 1873)
TORREY, John (1796 – 1873)
1635 CECanadensium plantarum, aliarúmque nondum editarum historia.
CORNUT, Jacques-Philippe [Cornuti] (1606 – 1651)
1814 CEHortus Bengalensis, or, a catalogue of the plants growing in the East India Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta.
ROXBURGH, William (1751 – 1815)
ROXBURGH, William (1751 – 1815)
2008 CERusskie rukopisnye travniki XVII–XVIII vekov: Issledovanie fol′klora i etnobotaniki. (Russian Manuscript Herbals of the 17th and 18th Centuries: An Investigation of Folklore and Ethnobotany).
IPPOLITOVA, Aleksandra Borisovna
1892 CE​–1897 CEThe orchid album, Comprising colored figures and descriptions of new, rare, and beautiful orchidaceous plants. Conducted by Robert Warner and Benjamin Samuel Williams. The botanical descriptions by Thomas Moore. The coloured figures by John Nugent Fitch. 11 vols.
WILLIAMS, Benjamin Samuel (1822 – 1890)
WILLIAMS, Benjamin Samuel (1822 – 1890) MOORE, Thomas (1821 – 1887) WARNER, Robert (1814 – 1896)
FITCH, John Nugent (1840 – 1927)
FITCH, John Nugent (1840 – 1927)
1924 CE​–1929 CEA bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.
MEISEL, Max
1776 CEA botanical arrangement of all the vegetables naturally growing in Great Britain, with descriptions of the genera and species, according to the system of the celebrated Linnaeus. Being an attempt to render them familiar to those who are unacquainted with the learned languages. Under each species are added, the most remarkable varieties, the natural places of growth, the duration, the time of flowering, the peculiarities of structure, the common English names; the names of Gerard, Parkinson, Ray and Bauhine. The uses as medicines, or as poisons; as food for men, for brutes, and for insects. With their application in oeconomy and in the arts. With an easy introduction to the study of botany. Shewing the method of investigating plants, and directions how to dry and preserve specimens. The whole illustrated by copper plates and a copious glossary. 2 vols.
WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799)
WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799)
1876 CEA catalogue of plants cultivated in the garden of John Gerard, in the years 1596-1599. Edited with notes, references to Gerard's Herball, the addition of modern names, and a life of the author by Benjamin Daydon Jackson.
GERARD, John (Gerarde) (1545 – 1612)
GERARD, John (Gerarde) (1545 – 1612)
JACKSON, Benjamin Daydon (1846 – 1927)
JACKSON, Benjamin Daydon (1846 – 1927)
1808 CEA catalogue of plants in the Botanic Garden, at Liverpool.
SHEPHERD, John (1764 – 1836)
1933 CEA catalogue of the works of Linnaeus (and publications more immediately relating thereto) perserved in the libraries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) and the British Museum (Natural History) (South Kennsington). Second edition
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778) SOULSBY, Basil H. (1864 – 1933)
2020 CEA companion to Byzantine science. Edited by Stavros Lazaris.
TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – )
TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – ) LAZARIS, Stavros ZUCKER, Arnaud IERODIAKONOU, Katerina
1826 CEA compendium of the flora of the northern and middle states, containing generic and specific descriptions of all the plants, exclusive of the cryptogamia, hitherto found in the United States, north of the Potomac.
TORREY, John (1796 – 1873)
TORREY, John (1796 – 1873)
1885 CEA contribution to South African materia medica, chiefly from plants in use among the natives.
SMITH, Andrew (1828 – 1898)
2014 CEA database for three Dioscoridean illustrated herbals.
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90) WHIPKEY, Anna KALBAUGH, Kirby FRANZ, Audra JANICK, Jules (1931 – )
1703 CEA description of the Western Islands of Scotland.: Containing a full account of their situation, extent, soils, product, harbours, bays, tides, anchoring places, and fisheries. The ancient and modern government, religion and customs of the inhabitants, particularly of their druids, heathen temples, monasteries, churches, chappels, antiquities, monuments, forts, caves, and other curiosities of art and nature. Of their admirable and expeditious way of curing most diseases by simples of their own product. A particular account of the second sight, or faculty of forseeing things to come, by way of vision, so common among them. A brief hint of methods to improve trade in that country, both by sea and land. With a new map of the whole, describing the harbours, anchoring places, and dangerous rocks, for the benefit of sailers. To which is added a brief description of the Isles of Orkney, and Schetland.
MARTIN, Martin ( – 1718)
MARTIN, Martin ( – 1718)
1949 CEA dictionary of Assyrian botany.
THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)
2001 CEA doctor in the garden: Nomen medici in botanicis. Australian flora and the world of medicine.
PEARN, John Hemsley (1940 – )
1820 CE​–1824 CEA flora of North America. Illustrated by coloured figures, drawn from nature. 3 vols.
BARTON, William Paul Crillon (1786 – 1856)
BARTON, William Paul Crillon (1786 – 1856)
1991 CEA history of botanical nomenclature.
NICHOLSON, Dan H.
2016 CEA Linnean kaleidoscope: Linnaeus and his 186 dissertations. 2 vols.
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778) NYNÄS, Carina BERGQUIST, Lars (1930 – )
1972 CEA medicine-man's implements and plants in a Tiahuanacoid tomb in highland Bolivia, (Etnologiska studier, 32). Edited by Henry Wassén.
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001)
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001) WASSÉN, S. Henry (1908 – 1996) & et al.
1931 CEA modern herbal. The medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs & trees with their modern scientific uses. With an introduction by the editor, Mrs. C. F. Leyel. 2 vols.
GRIEVE, Sophia Emma Magdalene [Maud Grieve] (1858 – 1941)
GRIEVE, Sophia Emma Magdalene [Maud Grieve] (1858 – 1941)
1789 CEA narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria. In the years one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, eight, and nine.
PATTERSON, William (1755 – 1810)
1822 CEA narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson: Containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new; to which is added an introduction to his New Guide to Health, or Botanic Family Physician containing the principles upon which the system is founded, with remarks on fevers, steaming, poison &c.
THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
1853 CEA narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an account of the native tribes and observations on the climate, geology and natural history of the Amazon Valley.
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
1551 CE​–1568 CEA new herball. 3 vols.
TURNER, William (1508 – 1568)
TURNER, William (1508 – 1568)
1999 CEA Pompeian herbal: Ancient and modern medicinal plants. Plant portraits by Victoria I and Lillian Nicholson Meyer. Photographs by Stanley A. Jashemki and others.
JASHEMSKI, Wilhelmina Mary Feemster (1910 – 2007)
1842 CEA scripture herbal.
GRAHAM, Maria (later Maria, Lady Callcott) (1785 – 1842)
GRAHAM, Maria (later Maria, Lady Callcott) (1785 – 1842)
2010 CEA short history of the seed & nursery catalogue in Europe & the U.S.
FORMIGA, Alice Krinsky
1821 CE​–1824 CEA sketch of the botany of South-Carolina and Georgia. 2 vols.
ELLIOTT, Stephen (1771 – 1830)
ELLIOTT, Stephen (1771 – 1830)
1793 CE​–1795 CEA specimen of the botany of New Holland
WHITE, John (1756 – 1832)
WHITE, John (1756 – 1832)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
SOWERBY, James (1757 – 1822)
SOWERBY, James (1757 – 1822)
1942 CEA study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs.
TANTAQUIDGEON, Gladys Lola (1899 – 2005)
1783 CEA system of vegetables, according to their classes, orders, genera, species with their characters and differences.... Translated from the thirteenth edition (As published by Dr. Murray) of the Systema vegetabilium of the late professor Linneus; and from the Supplementum plantarum of the present professor Linneus
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
DARWIN, Erasmus (1731 – 1802)
DARWIN, Erasmus (1731 – 1802)
1555 CEAcerca de la materia medicinal, y de los venenos mortiferos, traduzido de lengua griege, en la vulgar castellana, & illustrado con claras y substantiales annotationes, y con las figuras de innumeras plantas exquisitas y raras, por el Doctor Andres de Laguna....
LAGUNA DE SEGOVIA, Andrés [LACUNA] (1499 – 1559)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
2000 CEAfrican traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.
NEUWINGER, Hans Dieter
1994 CEAfrikanische Arzneipflanzen und Jagdgifte.
NEUWINGER, Hans Dieter
1982 CEAgrobacterium rhizogenes inserts T-DNA into the genomes of the host plant root cells.
CHILTON, Mary-Dell (1939 – )
CHILTON, Mary-Dell (1939 – ) TEMPÉ, Jacques TEPFER, David A. & et al.
1582 CEAigentlich Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc....
RAUWOLF, Leonhard (1535 – 1596)
RAUWOLF, Leonhard (1535 – 1596)
1867 CEAlberti Magni ex ordine praedicatorum de vegetabilibus libri VII: Historiae naturalis pars XVIII. Editionem criticam ab Ernesto Meyero coeptam: Absolvit Carolus Jessen.
ALBERTUS MAGNUS, [Albert von Bollstädt] (1195 – 1280) MEYER, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich (1791 – 1858)
JESSEN, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (1821 – 1889)
JESSEN, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (1821 – 1889)
1973 CEAlgonquin ethnobotany: An Interpretation of aboriginal adaptation in Southwestern Quebec. 2 vols.
BLACK, Meredith Jean
1582 CEAliquot notae in Garciae aromatum historiam. Eiusdem descriptiones nonnullarum stirpium, & aliarum exoticarum rerum, que à generoso viro Franciso Drake quite Anglo, & his obseruatae sunt, qui eum in long illa nauigatione, qu proximis annis vniuersum orbem circumiuits ....
L'ÉCLUSE (L'ESCLUSE), Charles de (Carolus Clusius) (1526 – 1609)
2007 CEAlphita: Edición crítica y comentario de Alejandro García González. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 02.
GONZÁLEZ, Alejandro García
1970 CEAmerican Indian medicine.
VOGEL, Virgil J. (1918 – 1994)
1817 CE​–1820 CEAmerican medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts. 3 vols.
BIGELOW, Jacob (1786 – 1879)
BIGELOW, Jacob (1786 – 1879)
1712 CEAmoentitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V.
KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651 – 1716)
KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651 – 1716)
1763 CEAn account of the success of the bark of the willow in the cure of agues.
STONE, Edward (1702 – 1768)
1997 CEAn Oak Spring flora: Flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time. A selection of rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon.
TOMASI, Lucia Tongiorgi (1939 – )
2009 CEAn Oak Spring herbaria: Herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. A selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi & Tony Willis. Edited with a description of the American herbals by Mark Argetsinger.
TOMASI, Lucia Tongiorgi (1939 – ) WILLIS, Tony
1990 CEAn Oak Spring pomona: A selection of the rare books on fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library.
RAPHAEL, Sandra
1989 CEAn Oak Spring sylva: A selection of the rare books on trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library.
RAPHAEL, Sandra