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  • Work on a coffee plantation in Guatemala. Wood-engravings by G. Andrews, 1877, after E. Muybridge.

    • Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
    Date
    20 October 1877
    Reference
    25225i
    • Pictures
  • Coffee plant (Coffea arabica): fruiting stem. Watercolour, c.1823.

    Reference
    22152i
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  • Crosswort (Galium cruciata (L.) Scop.): flowering plants rooted in joints of stone wall with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

    • Bouchard, Magdalena.
    Date
    [1772]
    Reference
    16749i
    • Pictures
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  • A coffee plant (Coffea arabica), its flower and fruit segments bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.

    Date
    [c. 1840]
    Reference
    28052i
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  • Bedstraw or crosswort plant (Galium cruciatum) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

    • Curtis, John, 1791-1862.
    Date
    1 October 1830
    Reference
    24168i
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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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  • Germinating seeds and seedlings of broad bean and goosegrass. Coloured pencil drawing by H. Cowell.

    • Cowell, Helen.
    Reference
    22123i
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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.

    • Reede tot Drakestein, Hendrik van, 1637?-1691.
    Date
    [1685]
    Reference
    16056i
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  • Arabian coffee tree (Coffea arabica): flowering stem, fruit and seed. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.

    • Burnett, M. A., active 1850.
    Date
    [1853]
    Reference
    23987i
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  • Crucianella maritima L.: flowering stem with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.

    • Bouchard, Magdalena.
    Date
    [1774]
    Reference
    16780i
    • Pictures
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  • Field madder (Sherardia arvensis L.): entire flowering plant with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

    • Bouchard, Magdalena.
    Date
    [1772]
    Reference
    16740i
    • Pictures
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  • A plant (Coutarea pubescens): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.

    Reference
    27143i
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  • A bedstraw plant (Galium erectum): two flowering plants. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.

    • Bradbury, Henry, 1831-1860.
    Date
    [c. 1867]
    Reference
    23672i
    • Pictures
  • Plants, fish and a landscape from the East Indies, including pepper, cocoa, indigo and coffee plants. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, 1706.

    • Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.
    Date
    [1718]
    Reference
    20209i
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  • Morinda umbellata L.: flowering stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.

    • Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.
    Date
    [1770]
    Reference
    17488i
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  • Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.

    • Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870.
    Date
    1861
    Reference
    24542i
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  • Levant or wild madder plant (Rubia peregrina) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1830.

    • Curtis, John, 1791-1862.
    Date
    1 October 1830
    Reference
    24164i
    • Pictures
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  • African peach (Sarcocephalus latifolius): fruiting and flowering stem with section of fruit. Coloured steel engraving by W. Say, c. 1812, after B. Cotton.

    • Cotton, Barbara, active 1810-1850.
    Date
    [1812-48]
    Reference
    26380i
    • Pictures
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  • Coffee plant (Coffea arabica): flowering and fruiting stem. Watercolour.

    Reference
    22151i
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  • Coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Line engraving by H. Burgh, c. 1726.

    • Burgh, H., active 1750.
    Date
    [1726]
    Reference
    21003i
    • Pictures
  • Cinchona plant (Cinchona lancifolia): flowering and fruiting stem. Lithograph, c. 1883.

    Date
    [1883]
    Reference
    24338i
    • Pictures
  • Garden Gardinia or Cape jasmine (Gardenia augusta (L.) Merr.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.

    • Reede tot Drakestein, Hendrik van, 1637?-1691.
    Date
    [1686]
    Reference
    16263i
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  • The blossom and fruit of a coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.

    • Scowen & Co.
    Reference
    28232i
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  • A coffee tree (Coffea species), nutmeg plant (Myristica fragrans) and cashew nut tree (Anacardium occidentale): flowers and fruit. Coloured engraving, c. 1827.

    Date
    [1827]
    Reference
    27942i
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  • A fruiting coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.

    • W.L.H. Skeen & Co. (Colombo, Ceylon)
    Reference
    28176i
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