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  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Bilberry plant (Vaccinium myrtillus L.): flowering and fruiting stems 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.
  • Cornflower or bachelor's-buttons (Centaurea cyanus L.): flowering stem 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.
  • Caroli Clvsii Atrebatis Cvrae posteriores, sev plurimarum non antè cognitarum, aut descriptarum stirpium, peregrinorumqúe aliquot animalium novae descriptiones: quibus & omnia ipsius opera, aliáque ab eo versa augentur, aut illustrantur / Acessit seorsim Everardi Vorstii ... de eiusdem Caroli Clvsii vita et obitu oratio, aliorumqúe epicedia.
  • 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.
  • Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia): stem with coloured autumn leaves. Watercolour.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Ortus sanitatis.
  • Histoire admirable des plantes et herbes esmerueillables et miraculeuses en nature: mesmes d'aucunes qui sont vrays zoophytes, ou plant-animales. Plantes & animaux tout ensemble, pour auoir vie vegetatiue sensitiue & animale; avec leurs portraicts au naturel, selon les histoires, descriptions, voyages, & nauigations des anciens & modernes... / par M. Clavde Dvret.
  • 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].
  • Blue iris flowers. Watercolour by A. Sherlock, 1901.
  • Leaves and flowers of bramble (Rubus species). Pen and watercolour drawings.
  • Ivy leaves. Pen and pencil drawings.
  • 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].
  • Grape vine on trellis. Pencil drawing.
  • 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.
  • 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].
  • Two orchids, a whole Comparettia species and single flowers of a Schomburgkia species. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • A palm tree with detailed paintings of the trunk and leaf. Watercolour, 1849.
  • Historia plantarum generalis. Species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens ... / [John Ray].
  • Palm tree (Cocos nucifera?) in arid landscape. Watercolour, 1862.
  • Tracts relative to the island of St. Helena; written during a residence of five years / By Major-General Alexander Beatson. Illus. with views, engraved by Mr. William Daniell, from the drawings of Samuel Davis, esq.
  • Common box tree (Buxus sempervirens L.): flowering stem 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.
  • A plant (Trigonella species): flowering and fruiting stems with seed. Watercolour.
  • Herbals, their origin and evolution : a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670 / by Agnes Arber.
  • Various studies of light on trees. Watercolours.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: Miss North's museum. Wood engraving by Hill.
  • Ortus sanitatis.