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Curiosities of nature and art in husbandry and gardening. Containing several new experiments in the Improvement of Land, Trees, Fruits, &c. And also nice and useful Observations relating to the Vegetation and Propagation of Plants; with choice Secrets to make Plants, Flowers and Fruits larger, more beautiful, and to ripen earlier than usual. With several copper cuts.
Vallemont, abbé de (Pierre Le Lorrain), 1649-1721.Date: 1707- Books
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Pharmaco-Botanologia: or, An Alphabetical and Classical dissertation on all the British Indigenous and Garden Plants of the New London Dispensatory. In which Their Genera, Species, Characteristick and Distinctive Notes are Methodically described; the Botanical Terms of art explained; their Virtues, Uses, and Shop-Preparations declared. With many Curious and Useful Remarks from proper Observation. By Patrick Blair, M.D. of Boston in Lincolnshire, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Blair, Patrick, -1728.Date: MDCCXXIII-M.DCC.XXVIII [1723-1728]- Books
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The artificial gardiner: being, a discovery of a new invention for the sudden growth of all sorts of trees and plants. Whereby Gardens may be stock'd with Variety of Plants and Fruit-Trees: And Forrests rais'd upon the most Barren Grounds in a very short Time. Also how to Produce Flowers and Fruits in the midst of Winter. The whole confirm'd by Experiments. Translated from the original High-Dutch, of George Andreas Agricola, of Ratisbone. M. D. To which are added, Remarks upon this new art of vegetation. By a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Date: 1717 [1716]- Archives and manuscripts
Statistics of Heredity in Animals
Date: 1896-1897Reference: GALTON/2/5/3/4Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
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Joseph Askew - Still life with Fruit and Vegetables and Still life with Tankard and Pot Plants
Date: 1868Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/2Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
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British curiosities in art and nature; giving an account of rarities both antient and modern, viz. Monuments, Monasteries, Priories, Frieries, Nunneries, Colleges, Hospitals, Walls, Roman Camps, Garrisons, Highways, Coins, Altars, Urns, Pavements of Mosaic Work, Temples, Churches, Bridges, Kings Palaces, Noblemens Seats, Paintings, Gardens, Statues, Fountains, Rivers, Lakes, Abysses, Caverns, Rocks, Hills, Plants, Flowers, Birds, Beasts, Fish, Shells, Learning and Learned Men, unusual Customs of Places, with whatever else is worthy observing. Likewise an account of the posts, markets, and fair-towns. To which is added, A very Useful Scheme, containing a brief Account of the State of each County in England, at one View, curiously engraved, and printed on a Sheet to fold up or put in a Frame.
Date: MDCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
Eye for detail : images of plants and animals in art and science, 1500-1630 / Florike Egmond.
Egmond, FlorikeDate: 2017- Books
Botanical and medicinal plants : (as depicted in ancient texts, art & archaeology from dawn of civilization to the modern age) / Shantilal Nagar.
Nagar, Shanti Lal, 1927-Date: 2000- Books
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The art of heraldry. Containing I. The original and universality of arms and ensigns, with their Use and Necessity; their Blazon, Distribution, Abatements, and Rewards of Honour. II. Of diverse Kinds of Escotcheons, and of the Bearing or Using the Ordinaries in Coat Armour. III. Of Coat Armour form'd of Artificial Things, whether Civil, Ecclesiastical, Military or Marine, such as are made by Man, or for his Use. IV. Of Charges in Coat Armour form'd of Coelestials, as, the Sun, Moon, Stars, Angels, &c. Of Vegetables, as Trees, Flowers, Plants, Fruits, &c. Of the Parts of Man's Body, as the Hands, Legs, Arms, Heart, &c. Of Animals, as Lyons, Tygers, Horses, Stags, &c. in Whole and in Parts. V. Of Charges from Fowls and Birds of all Sorts, in Whole and in Parts. VI. Of Charges from Fishes of all Kinds, in Whole and in Parts. Vii. Of Charges from Monstrous Animals, in Whole and in Parts. Embellish'd with forty copper plates, containing above 900 Coats of Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, curiously engraven, with their particular Descriptions, and by whom borne. Interspers'd with the Natural History of the several Species of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Vegetables, &c. comprehended therein. Together with Occasional Explications of all the Terms used in the Science of Heraldry, and peculiar thereto. To which is prefix'd, An Alphabetical list of the Names of the Families whose Coats are delineated in the Book, with References to the Pages where they are to be found.
Blome, Richard, 1635-1705.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Books
Think art act science : artists-in-labs / [edited by Irène Hediger, Josep Perelló].
Date: [2010]- Books
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Descriptive botany, or, The art of describing plants correctly in scientific language : for self-instruction and the use of schools / by Professor Lindley.
Lindley, John, 1799-1865.Date: 1860- Pictures
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Three plants, an anenome, a mercury and a crocus: entire flowering plants. Colour nature print, c. 1860.
Date: [c. 1860]Reference: 23662i- Books
Green light : toward an art of evolution / George Gessert.
Gessert, George, 1944-Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
Golden age of botanical art / Martyn Rix.
Rix, Martyn.Date: 2012- Books
The mythology of plants : botanical lore from ancient Greece and Rome / Annette Giesecke.
Giesecke, AnnetteDate: [2014]- Books
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Polypharmakos kai chymistes, or, The English unparalell'd physitian and chyrurgian : shewing the true vse of all manner of plants and minerals in which is explained the whole art and secresy of physick and chyrurgery ... / by D. Border.
Border, D. (Daniel)Date: 1651- Books
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Nature's cabinet unlock'd : Wherein is discovered the natural causes of metals, stones, precious earths, juyces, humors, and spirits, the nature of plants in general; their affections, parts, and kinds in particular. Together with a description of the individual parts and species of all animate bodies, similar and dissimilar, median and organical, perfect and imperfect. With a compendious anatomy of the body of man, as also the manner of his formation in the womb. All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. / By Tho. Brown D. of Physick.
Date: 1657- Books
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The practice of gardening explained to all capacities; including the newest improvements. By which gentlemen, who have small gardens, may make themselves masters of the art, and manage them with little expence, to their satisfaction: and the common gardener be enabled to go through his business with credit. With those secrets which gardeners observe in their practice, though none have taught or published them. Containing the raising and entire culture of tender annuals, hardy perennial plants, curious shrubs, and the choicest flowers, from the seed to their perfection: with the making of hot-beds, and the whole art of raising cuttings. By Thomas Perfect, gardener, inventor of the new Chinese parterres.
Perfect, Thomas.Date: 1759- Books
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The practice of gardening explained to all capacities; Including the newest improvements. By which gentlemen, who have small gardens, may make themselves masters of the art, and manage them with little expence, to their satisfaction: and the common gardener be enabled to go through his business with credit. With those secrets which gardeners observe in their practice, though none have taught or published them. Containing the raising and entire culture of tender annuals, hardy perennial plants, curious shrubs, and the choicest flowers, from the seed to their perfection. The making of hot-beds, and the whole art of raising cuttings. By Thomas Perfect, gardener, inventor of the new Chinese parterres.
Perfect, Thomas.Date: 1759- Books
Botanical art from the golden age of scientific discovery / Anna Laurent.
Laurent, AnnaDate: [2016]- Books
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The gardener's and planter's calendar. Containing the method of raising timber-trees, fruit-trees, and quick, for hedges. With directions for forming and managing a garden, in every month of the year. Also, many new improvements in the art of gardening. To which is added, an appendix, containing, a general catalogue of seeds and plants for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, &c. By R. Weston, Esq. author of The universal botanist.
Weston, Richard, 1733-1806.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
Stuffing birds, pressing plants, shaping knowledge : natural history in North America, 1730-1860 / Sue Ann Prince, editor.
Date: 2003- 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
The botany of beer : an illustrated guide to more than 500 plants used in brewing / Giuseppe Caruso ; foreword by Marika Josephson ; translated by Kosmos, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Caruso, Giuseppe, 1965-Date: [2022]- Books
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The first edition of Steward's healing art : corrected and improved by the original hand : to which he has added all his late improvements and new discoveries, both in physick and surgery, from the year 1812 to the year 1826, including his whole system upon physick and surgery : to which he has added, A concise herbal, containing a full description of herbs, roots, barks, and plants, both in their simple and compound use, with a description of their soils and the countries where they are generally found / by William Steward.
Steward, William, 1765-1845.Date: 1827