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Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 27981i- Books
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Joh. Henrici Ursini Arboretum Biblicum : in quo arbores & fructices passim in S. literis occurrentes, ut & plantae, herbae ac aromata, notis philologicis, philosophicis, theologicis, exponuntur, & illustrantur; nunc praecipuis emblematibus & arboribus, aere incisis, exornatum, à vitiis purgatum, atque indicibus utilissimis, rerum, dictorum ... nominumque ... adauctum: adjunctâ Theologiae symbolicae sylva.
Ursin, Johann Heinrich, 1608-1667.Date: 1699- Pictures
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Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 27980i- Pictures
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Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 27979i- Pictures
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The serpent passes the fruit to Eve while Adam holds onto a branch. Line engraving after A. Durer.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.Reference: 15631i- Books
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A short introduction to the knowledge of the science of botany: explaining the terms of art made use of in the Linnæan system. Illustrated with five copper plates Exhibiting the Characters of the Genera. By Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries; at their Botanick Garden in Chelsea, and Member of the Botanick Academy at Florence.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
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The method of cultivating madder, As it is now practised by the Dutch in Zealand: (where the best Madder is produced) With their Manner of Drying, Stamping, and Manufacturing it for Use. Embellished with draughts of their buildings and kilns erected for that Purpose. To which is added, The Method of cultivating Madder in England, from many Experiments made in the Course of Thirty Years on the Culture of that useful Plant. By Philip Miller, F. R. S. Member of the Academy at Florence, and Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at Chelsea.
Miller, Philip, 1691-1771.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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The botanic garden. A poem in two parts. Pt. I Containing the Economy of vegetation. Pt. 2. the Loves of the plants. With philosophical notes / [Erasmus Darwin].
Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802.Date: 1794-1795- Books
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Materia medica: or, a new description of the virtues and effects of all drugs, or Simple Medicines Now in Use: Where from their Principles, these Virtues both Common and Specifick are shewn, with the Preparations of Each; and Prescriptions: As also Judicious Remarks are every where interspers'd. Done from the Latin original of Dr. Paul Harman, late Professor of Botany in Leyden. To which is prefix'd, a general introduction, containing a Mechanical Account of the Operations of all Medicines upon Human Bodies also Critical Observations are added to each Simple thro' the Whole, wherever it was found Necessary. By Edward Strother M. D. Coll. Med. Lond. Reg. Colleg. In two volumes.
Hermann, Paul, 1646?-1695.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
The natural history of the Bible : a review of the physical geography, geology, and meteorology of the Holy Land ; with a description of every animal and plant mentioned in Holy Scripture / by H.B. Tristram.
Tristram, H. B. (Henry Baker), 1822-1906.Date: [pref. 1867]- Books
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The flower-Garden display'd, in above four hundred curious representations of the most beautiful flowers; Regularly dispos'd in the respective Months of their Blossom, Curiously engrav'd on copper-plates from the designs of Mr. Furber and others, And Coloured to the Life. With the description and history of each plant and the method of their culture; whether in Stoves, Green-Houses, Hot-Beds, Glass-Cases, Open Borders, or against Walls. Very Useful. Not only for the Curious in Gardening, but the Prints likewise for Painters, Carvers, Japaners, &c. also for the Ladies, as Patterns for Working, and Painting in Water-Colours; or Furniture for the Closet.
Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
Holy herbs : modern connections to ancient plants / Sudhir Ahluwalia.
Ahluwalia, SudhirDate: [2017]- Pictures
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In the Garden of Eden, Eve offers Adam the apple. Line engraving by C. Galle after G.B. Paggi.
Paggi, Giovanni Battista, 1554-1627.Reference: 15625i- Books
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The English physitian enlarged : with three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this: being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation; containing a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English bodies. Herein is also shewed these seven things; viz. 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, pultisses, syrups, decoctions, juleps or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, ... 7. The way of mixing medicines according to cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, gent. Student in physick and astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1676- Books
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Lust- und Artzeney-Garten des königlichen Propheten Davids. Das ist der gantze Psalter in teutsche Verse übersetzt, sammt anhangenden kurtzen Christlichen Gebetlein. Da zugleich jeden Psalm eine besondere neue Melodey, mit dem Basso Continuo, auch ein in Kupffer gestochenes Emblema, so wol eine liebliche Blumen oder Gewächse, sammt deren Erklärung und Erläuterung ... Neben Herren D. Johann Gerharden täglicher Ubung der Gottseligkeit.
Date: 1675- Books
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The English physitian enlarged : with three hundred, sixty and nine medicines made of English herbs, that were not in any impression untill this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation; containing a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English bodies. Herein is also shewed these seven things, viz. 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, pultisses, syrups, decoctions, juleps or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, ... 7. The way of mixing medicines according to the cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1684- Books
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A proposal for the better supplying of churches in our foreign plantations, And for converting the savage Americans to Christianity, by a college to be erected in the Summer Islands, otherwise called the Isles of Bermuda.
Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.Date: 1725- Books
Icones stirpium seu plantarum tam exoticarum quam indigenarum, in gratiam rei herbariæ studiosorum in duas partes digestæ. Cum septem linguarum indicibus. Ad diversarum nationum usum / [Matthias de LʹObel].
L'Obel, Matthias de, 1538-1616.Date: 1591- Books
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New improvements of planting and gardening, both practical and philosophical. In three parts, viz. I. The clergy-man's recreation. II. The gentleman's recreation. III. The lady's recreation. By John Lawrence, A.M. rector of Yelvertost in Northamptonshire, and sometime Fellow of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. With an appendix explaining the motion of the sap and generation of plants: with other discoveries never before made publick, for the improvement of forest-trees; with an invention whereby more designs of garden platts may be made in an hour, than can be found in all the books now extant. Likewise several rare secrets for the improvement of fruit-trees, kitchen-gardens, and green-house plants. Adorn'd with copper plates. By Richard Bradley, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Laurence, John, 1668-1732.Date: MDCCXVII. [1717]- Books
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Herefordshire orchards. Written in an epistolary address to Samuel Hartlib, Esq; By J.B. To which is added, the newest and best method for planting and managing the hop-garden: being a pattern for Ireland.
Beale, John, 1603-1683?.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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The new art of gardening, with the gardener's almanack: Containing, the true art of gardening, in all its particulars. I. Site of a proper plat of ground, for planting fruit-trees; with the manner of planting, grasting, imbuding, inoculating, and ordering all sorts of fruit-trees, and fruits in all seasons. The art of making cyder, perry, and wines of divers sorts of fruits. II. Of the kitchen-garden, and what things are proper to be done in it, as to herbs, plants, roots, berries, fruits, &c. III. Of the flower-garden, how to order it, and rear choice flowers, slips, layers, sow seeds, make off-sets, and plant them in their proper Earths, seasons, and due waterings; with the names, and description of the most material ones. IV. Of greens, how to order and preserve them; with rules for the conservatory, and green-house. To each head is added an almanack, shewing what is to be done every month in the year. By Leonard Meager.
Meager, Leonard, 1624?-1704?.Date: [1720?]- Books
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New-England's memorial: or, A brief relation of the most memorable and remarkable passages of the providence of God manifested to the planters of New-England in America: with special reference to the first colony thereof, called New-Plimouth. As also a nomination of divers of the most eminent instruments deceased, both of church & common wealth, improved in the first beginning and after progress of sundry of the respective jurisdictions in those parts; in reference unto sundry exemplary passages of their lives, & the time of their death. Published for the use and benefit of present and future generations. By Nathaniel Morton, secretary to the court for the jurisdiction of New-Plimouth. [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Morton, Nathaniel, 1613-1685.Date: 1721- Books
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Gardening improv'd: Containing I. The clergyman's recreation: shewing the pleasure and pront of the art of gardening. Wherein is treated, 1. Of preparing the ground for planting and sowing. 2. Of the method of planting fruit trees in gardens. 3. Of the most agreeable disposition for a garden. 4. Of nurseries. 5. Of pruning. 6. Of grafting and inoculating. 7. Of the proper disposition of trees against a wall, the best kinds of each, their order and time of ripening, &c. II. The gentleman's recreation: or, The second part of the art of gardening improved. Containing several new experiments and curious observations relating to fruit-trees, particularly a new method of building walls with horizontal shelters. Illustrated with copper plates. III. The fruit-garden kalendar: teaching in order of time what is to be done therein every month in the year. Containing several new and plain directions, more particularly relating to the vine. Written by John Lawrence, M.A. rector of Yelvertost in Northamptonshire. IV. The lady's recreation: or, The art of gardening farther improved. Containing the best ways of propagating all sorts of flowers, flower-trees, and shrubs, &c. The most commodious methods for erecting green-houses, &c. Of plantations in avenues, walks, wildernesses, &c. With the gardener's compleat kalendar: or, The art of managing both the fruit-garden and kitchen-garden every month in the year. By Charles Evelyn, Esq; with an appendix explaining the motion of sap, and generation of plants. And a new invention for the more speedy designing of garden-platts. By Richard Bradley.
Laurence, John, 1668-1732.Date: 1719- Books
Pflanzen der Bibel : Begleitheft zur Sonderausstellung im Deutschen Medizinhistorischen Museum Ingolstadt vom 1. Juni bis 11. September 2005 sowie der 2003 und 2004 im Botanischen Garten der Universität Tübingen erfolgten Ausstellung / [Bearbeitet von Klaus Dobat (Hauptteil), Christa Habrich und Michael Kowalski].
Date: 2005- Books
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The history of the principal discoveries and improvements, in the several arts and sciences: particularly the great branches of commerce, navigation, and plantation, in all parts of the known world.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727] [1726]