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  • Branches of scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). Pen drawing.
  • Rose hips and leaves. Watercolour and pen drawings.
  • Ox-eye or marguerite daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare): flowers and leaves. Watercolour.
  • Observations on the Neilgherries including an account of their topography, climate, soil, & productions, and of the effects of the climate on the European constitution / By R. Baikie ... Ed. by W.H. Smoult, esq.
  • 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].
  • Five types of ginger lily (Hedychium species): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph.
  • [Phytobasanos] sive plantarum aliqvot historia. In qva describvntvr diversi generis plantæ veriores, ac magis facie, viribúsque respondentes antiquorum Theophrasti, Diocoridis, Plinij, Galeni, aliorúmque delineationibus, ab alijs hucusque non animaduersæ / Fabio Colvmna avctore. Accessit etiam piscivm aliqvot, plantarúmque nouarum historia eodem auctore.
  • A plant (Carduus species) related to scotch thistle: flowering stem with root. Watercolour.
  • Floral bouquet. Engraving.
  • 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.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Chilli or pepper plant (Capsicum annuum): fruiting stem. Watercolour.
  • Beilage zu Dr. Helm's Pflanzen-Album : Inhalt: gummierte Streifen zum Befestigen der Pflanzen.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Purple striped tulip (Tulipa species): flower and leaves. Watercolour.
  • Marcelli Malpighii ... Anatome plantarum. Cui subjungitur appendix, iteratas et auctas ejusdem authoris de ovo incubato observationes continens / Regiae Societati, Londini ad scientiam naturalem promovendam institutae dicata.
  • Beilage zu Dr. Helm's Pflanzen-Album : Inhalt: gummierte Streifen zum Befestigen der Pflanzen.
  • Botanologia. The English herbal: or history of plants ... / [William Salmon].
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Mandrake roots in the form of human figures, both naked and clothed; the mandrake plant itself (Mandragora officinarum L.); and a root of ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.). Engraving.
  • Betony (Stachys officinalis (L.) Trev.): flowering stem with separate leaves, floral segments and sections of root and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving after T. Sheldrake, c.1759.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives.
  • A stand of bushes. Watercolour.
  • A large oak tree (Quercus robur L.) sheltering cattle in open parkland. Etching after J.G.Strutt, 1823.
  • 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.
  • A plant, possibly cudweed (Gnaphalium species): flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • 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 gardener's dictionary. Containing, the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, flower, fruit, and pleasure garden; wherein all the articles contained in the former editions of this work, in two volumes, are disposed in one alphabet. With the addition of a great number of plants / [Philip Miller].