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Pearson, Richard, L.R.C.P. (1765-1836), Birmingham physician and antiquary
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7492- Books
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Curious remarks and observations in physics, anatomy, chirurgery, chemistry, botany, and medicine. Extracted from the history and memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Containing such useful discoveries as have not been collected by other writers on the same subjects. By Dr. Peter Templeman.
Académie royale des sciences (France)Date: MDCCLIII. - MDCCLIV. [1753-54]- Books
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A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade. Consisting of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c. With a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product; the best sorts of manure for each; with the art of draining and flooding of lands; as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. the description and structure of instruments for husbandry, and carriages, with the manner of their imrovement; an account of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable; of weights and measures, of woods, cordage, and metals; of building and stowage the vegetation of plants, &c. with many other useful particulars, communicated by several eminent members of the Royal Society, to the collector, John Houghton, F.R.S. Now revised, corrected, and published, with a preface and useful indexes, by Richard Bradley, F.R.S. and professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. In three volumes.
Houghton, John, 1640-1705.Date: M,DCC,XXVII. [i.e. 1727 - 1728]- Books
Noticias y papeles de la Expedición científica mejicana, dirigida por Sessé / por Enrique Alvarez López.
Alvarez López, Enrique.Date: 1952- Pictures
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Pepperwort (Lepidium orientale): flowering plant, leaf and floral segments. Etching, c. 1718, after C. Aubriet.
Aubriet, Claude, 1665-1742.Date: [1718]Reference: 20868i- Pictures
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Fruits from the East Indies, including piek (?Nipa fruticans - the Nipa palm) and froete mieri and tiackou (?Artocarpus integrifolia), in separate plates. Engraving by M. Pool after C. de Bruin, 1706.
Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.Date: [1718]Reference: 20219i- Pictures
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Forty five simple plant leaves of different forms. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
Date: 14 July 1799Reference: 25561i- Pictures
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Fifty eight simple plant leaves of different forms. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
Date: 25 June 1799Reference: 25560i- Pictures
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Fourteen different forms of plant stem. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
Date: 12 June 1799Reference: 25558i- Pictures
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Ten different forms of plant stem and two anatomical sections. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
Date: 1 June 1799Reference: 25556i- Books
The doctor's garden : medicine, science, and horticulture in Britain / Clare Hickman.
Hickman, Clare (Welcome Research Fellow in Medical History & Humanities)Date: [2021]- Pictures
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Tea plant (Camellia sinensis): flowering stem with sectioned leaf and many floral segments. Coloured engraving by J. Miller, c. 1771.
Miller, John, 1715-1790?Date: 10 December 1771Reference: 24552i- Pictures
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Nine different flowers and their floral segments. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
Date: 25 August 1799Reference: 25566i- Pictures
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A fern, a moss, a fungus and an alga: all with anatomical details. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
Date: 10 September 1799Reference: 25567i- Pictures
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Gum cistus (Cistus ladanifer L.) and bastard indigo (Amorpha fruticosa L.): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
Huysum, Jacob van, approximately 1687-approximately 1740.Date: [1730]Reference: 20533i- Pictures
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Honeysuckle (Lonicera species): three varieties. Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher after J. van Huysum.
Huysum, Jacob van, approximately 1687-approximately 1740.Date: [1730]Reference: 20536i- Books
The Flora Graeca story : Oxford's finest botanical treasure : Sibthorp, Bauer, and Hawkins in the Levant : an exhibition at the Bodleian Library 19 July 1999 - 25 September 1999 / by H. Walter Lack.
Lack, H. Walter.Date: [1999?]- Pictures
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Honeysuckle (Lonicera species) and jasmine (Jasminum species): flowering stems. Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
Huysum, Jacob van, approximately 1687-approximately 1740.Date: [1730]Reference: 20535i- Pictures
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Three different flowers and two fruit with anatomical details. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
Date: 4 August 1799Reference: 25568i- Archives and manuscripts
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Pseudo-Serapion, Liber aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus, in Italian, imperfect at the end
Ibn Wafid (d. 1067) of ToledoDate: Mid 15th centuryReference: MS.746- Archives and manuscripts
Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum; Sidrach, De la vertu des pierres précieuses et des herbes
Date: Early 14th centuryReference: MS.457- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: GRA
Date: 1790-1932Reference: MS.9145- Archives and manuscripts
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Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum; Johannes de Sancto Paulo, De simplicium medicinarum virtutibus and Flores dietarum
Date: 1478Reference: MS.458