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A species of Sapotaceae: branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower and sections of fruit and seeds. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1683]Reference: 15951i
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Flower and roots of a red lily (Lilium carolinianum) and a whampum snake (Coluber fasciatus). Etching by M. Catesby, c.1731, after himself.
Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749.Date: [1731-1749]Reference: 21005i
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Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.
Date: [1671]Reference: 24654i
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Indian Copal (Vateria indica L.): branch with flowers, leaves and fruit and dissected fruit showing seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1683]Reference: 15872i
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A plant (Flacourtia sepiaria): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers and fruit and sections of fruit and seeds. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1685]Reference: 16073i
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Guatteria sempervirens DC.: branch with flowers and fruit and sections of fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1685]Reference: 16008i
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Hortus medicus Edinburgensis, or, A catalogue of the plants in the Physical Garden at Edinburgh : containing their most proper Latin and English names : with an English alphabetical index / by Mr. James Sutherland.
Sutherland, James, 1639?-1719.Date: 1683
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The seconde part of Vuilliam Turners herball : wherein are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Duche, Frenche, and in the apothecaries Latin, and somtyme in Italiane, wyth the vertues of the same herbes wyth diuerse confutationes of no small errours, that men of no small learning haue committed in the intreatinge of herbes of late yeares. Here vnto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Englande, and of the vertues of the same wyth diuerse other bathes moste holsum and effectuall, both in Almany and Englande, set furth by William Turner Doctor of Physik.
Turner, William, -1568Date: In the yeare of our Lorde M.D.LXII. [1562]
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Elephant apple (Limonia acidissima L.): branch with flowers and fruit, leaf and seeds and cross-section of fruit.
Date: [1683]Reference: 15866i
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Alangium salvifolium var. hexapetalum Wang.: branch with leaves, flowers and fruit and sections of flower, fruit, seed and ovary. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1683]Reference: 15926i
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A camel surrounded by various named animals, flowers and insects, including a giraffe and flying dragon. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.Date: [1674]Reference: 24373i
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Rosewood tree (a species of Dalbergia): branch with flowers and pods and separate sections of flowers, pod and seeds. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16117i
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A plant (Justicia bicalyculata Willd.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flower and opened fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16181i
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Mango (Mangifera indica L.): branch with flowers, fruit and leaves, cross-section of fruit and flower. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1683]Reference: 15796i
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Kembang or Kooning (Cassia surattensis Burm.f.): branch with flowers. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16083i
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East Indian Screw Tree (Helictores isora L.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate dehisced fruit and sectioned fruit with seeds. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16202i
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Four plants, including feverfew (Tanacetum species) and a tulip (Tulipa variegata): flowering stems. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
Robert, Nicolas, 1614-1685.Date: [c. 1660]Reference: 24938i
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East Indian or Malabar Kino (Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb.): branch with flowers, separate shoot bearing flowers and fruit and sections of flowers. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16187i
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Jasmine (Jasminum species): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flowers and fruits with seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16282i
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A species of Thottea: branch with flowers and pods and separate pods and sectioned flower. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16194i
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A thistle in the centre with a boar to the left facing a mastiff to the right, all surrounded by various plants and insects. Engraving by D. Loggan, 1663, after W. Hollar.
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.Date: [1674]Reference: 24376i
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Catalogus plantarum horti medici Oxoniensis : sc. Latino-Anglicus & Anglico-Latinus : eas alphabetico ordine accuratè exhibens.
Bobart, Jacob, 1599-1680Date: 1648
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A plant (Canthium rheedii) related to Ceylon boxwood: branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers, fruit and sectioned fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1685]Reference: 16056i
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A foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) and orange lily (Lilium bulbiferum): flowering stems with butterfly and other insect. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
Robert, Nicolas, 1614-1685.Date: [c. 1660]Reference: 24923i
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A Turk's-cap lily (Lilium martagon), a harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) and a pansy (Viola species): flowering stems. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
Robert, Nicolas, 1614-1685.Date: [c. 1660]Reference: 24921i