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Paxton, Sir Joseph (1801-1865), gardener and architect, designer of the Crystal Palace
Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1801-1865.Date: 1851-1863Reference: MS.7405- Books
Paxton's botanical dictionary : comprising the names, history, and culture of all plants known in Britain with a full explanation of technical terms / [Sir Joseph Paxton].
Paxton, Joseph, Sir, 1803-1865.Date: 1868- Archives and manuscripts
Paxton, Sir Joseph (1803-1865), landscape gardener and architect, and Brunel, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859), engineer
Paxton, Joseph, Sir, 1803-1865Date: 1865Reference: MS.8479- Books
The busiest man in England : the life of Joseph Paxton, gardener, architect, & Victorian visionary / by Kate Colquhoun.
Colquhoun, Kate, 1964-Date: 2006- Books
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A pocket botanical dictionary comprising the names, history, and culture of all plants known in Britain; with a full explanation of technical terms / By Joseph Paxton ... assisted by Professor Lindley. A new edition. With supplement containing all the new plants since its appearance.
Paxton, Joseph, Sir, 1803-1865.Date: 1849- Books
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A defence of Quakerism; or, an answer to a book intituled A preservative against Quakerism; written by Patrick Smith, M. A. and Vicar, as he stiles himself, of Great Paxton in Huntingtonshire. In which Answer, His Charges against the Quakers of Deism, Enthusiasm, Heresy, and Schism, are considered and refuted: His Misinterpretations of the Holy Scriptures manifested: His frequent Perversions of the Quakers Writings detected; and their truly Christian Principles stated, and vindicated, in Opposition to his Attempts, which are shewn to be Weak and Self-Contradictory. With an appendix, containing I. An examination of the first class of Quaker-Testimonies, produced in a late vindication of the Bishop of Lichfield an Coventry. II. A detection of the falshood of Pickworth's Narrative. By Joseph Besse.
Besse, Joseph, 1683?-1757.Date: 1732- Pictures
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A tropical orchid (Trichopilia marginata): flowering plant. Coloured zincograph by L. Constans, c. 1851, after himself.
Constans, L., approximately 1850.Date: [1850-51]Reference: 26347i- Pictures
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A tropical orchid (Trichopilia suavis): flowering plant. Coloured zincograph by L. Constans, c. 1850, after himself.
Constans, L., approximately 1850.Date: [1850-51]Reference: 26346i- Pictures
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Cape pondweed or water hawthorn (Aponogeton distachyus): flowering stems and leaves. Coloured zincograph by L. Constans, c. 1851, after himself.
Constans, L., approximately 1850.Date: [1851-52]Reference: 26345i- Pictures
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A wax plant (Hoya species): flowering stem. Coloured zincograph by L. Constans, c. 1850, after himself.
Constans, L., approximately 1850.Date: [1850-51]Reference: 26343i- Pictures
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A pitcher plant (Sarracenia drummondii): two pitchers and a small depiction of an entire plant. Coloured zincograph by L. Constans, c. 1850, after himself.
Constans, L., approximately 1850.Date: [1850-51]Reference: 26342i- Pictures
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The Crystal Palace from the Great Exhibition, installed at Sydenham: sculptures of prehistoric creatures in the foreground. Colour Baxter-process print by G. Baxter, 1864(?).
Reference: 39566i- Archives and manuscripts
Rogers, Nathaniel (d.1884)
Rogers, Nathaniel, d.1884Date: 1826-1869Reference: MSS.4243-4244- Ephemera
Opticians ephemera. Box 1.
- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HAS-HAY
Date: 1766-1884Reference: MS.8913