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  • A curious herbal containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of Physik.
  • Animals and plants of Dorset in the Liassic period.. Lithograph by G. Scharf after H.T. de la Bèche..
  • Three fairies in a garden looking at the plants; representing botany. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman after R. Corbould.
  • Animals and plants of Dorset in the Liassic period. Lithograph by G. Scharf after H.T. de la Bèche.
  • Medicinal plants : being descriptions with original figures of the principal plants employed in medicine and an account of the characters, properties and uses of their parts and products of medicinal value / by Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen ; the plates by David Blair.
  • Medicinal plants : being descriptions with original figures of the principal plants employed in medicine and an account of the characters, properties and uses of their parts and products of medicinal value / by Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen ; the plates by David Blair.
  • A border of trees, palms and herbaceous plants from a Roman garden in the 1st century A.D. Coloured photograph.
  • The botanic garden. A poem in two parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of vegetation. Part II. the Loves of the plants. With philosophical notes / [Erasmus Darwin].
  • The botanic garden. A poem in two parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of vegetation. Part II. the Loves of the plants. With philosophical notes / [Erasmus Darwin].
  • Microscopical researches into the accordance in the structure and growth of animals and plants / Translated from the German of Dr. Th. Schwann ... by Henry Smith.
  • Microscopical researches into the accordance in the structure and growth of animals and plants / Translated from the German of Dr. Th. Schwann ... by Henry Smith.
  • Microscopical researches into the accordance in the structure and growth of animals and plants / Translated from the German of Dr. Th. Schwann ... by Henry Smith.
  • Travels in Peru and India : while superintending the collection of chinchona plants and seeds in South America, and their introduction into India / by Clements R. Markham.
  • Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.
  • Chloroplasts are found in the cells of plants that conduct photosynthesis. They absorb sunlight and use it along with water and carbon dioxide gas (CO2) to produce food for the plant.
  • Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].
  • Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].
  • Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].
  • Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].
  • Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].
  • Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].
  • Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].
  • Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].
  • Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].
  • Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].
  • Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].
  • Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].
  • A sick man reclining on a couch, men gathering plants to cure him; a man holding a staff of Aesculapius in the background. Engraving, 1709.
  • A thistle in the centre with a boar to the left facing a mastiff to the right, all surrounded by various plants and insects. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.
  • Practical observations on the use of oxygen, or vital air, in the cure of diseases. To which are added a few experiments on the vegetation of plants. Part I / By D. Hill.