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Valuable specimens, their workings, etc. 1. Sieber - People collected for him See Engler's Botanische Jahrbücher Pretzel Linnaea Flora "Fl. Capensis" - S. Africa "Trinitates" (the name only printed) Martinique "Mauritius" 2. Haenke - specimens from Kew from Peru Philippine Isl. - 1792 Mexico written up by Prof. Rel. Haenkenianum usually with the name + Br. 3. N.J. Anderson - all over the world, particularly noted for Galapagos Is. about 1852 4. Poeppig - mostly at MBG - Cuba, Peru, Brazil, Child Pennsylvania - all from Bernhardi herb. Pa. plants printed - Cuba " " printed in script. Peru " " handwritten, usually …

… of black-and-white photographs, on 6" x 4" data-cards, was of the first importance. Consider the case of A or B who wishes to study, say, the work of Ehret. What is available to him at present? In the Hunt Botanical Library six original watercolour drawings, a few loose prints, probably the illustrations in three or four printed works (Plantae Selectae, etc). If to these could be added photographs of the original paintings at Kew and at the Victoria and Albert Museum, etc., and of those in private collections (Major the Hon. Henry Broughton, Dr Joan Evans, Lady Dorothy Randolph, etc.), he would be able to form a …

THE GREATEST HERBAL EVER PREPARED IN ENGLISH WITH MORE THAN 2700 FINE WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE PLANTS OF THE WORLD The out-of-print value of this great work, now first offered inexpensively, has risen to $1,000 per copy and more! Over 1700 pages, 81/2 x 121/4, weight 91/2 lbs! THE HERBAL OR GENERAL HISTORY OF PLANTS JOHN GERARD THE COMPLETE 1633 EDITION AS REVISED AND ENLARGED BY THOMAS JOHNSON CLOTHBOUND $42.50 ($50 after Dec. 31, 1975) A Brief History of a Monumental Book John Gerard (1545-1612) was a barber-surgeon in London, the superintendent of the gardens owned by Lord Burghley in London and Hertfordsh …

period of the herbal as it affected men's lives falls exactly in the first century and a half of the art of printing books and illustrating them by wood- cuts. This, in itself, is a consuming subject and in passing I shall refer to matters of printing history as they are represented in the books we shall look at. The works we shall consider fall conveniently into three groups. I shall take up all of these at once quite briefly to sketch in the background, for when we come to the slides it will be convenient to be able to jump about in sequence rather than sticking to a linear development. The first group belongs …

ZWEIHUNDERT JAHRE NATURSELBSTDRUCK VON ERNST FISCHER Viele unserer Leser werden dieses, schon zu Gutenbergs Zeit vereinzelt probierte Illustrationsverfahren kaum dem Namen nach kennen. Seine Bedeutung ist aber nicht gering einzuschätzen, zumal die Möglichkeiten der Ausnutzung noch lange nicht erschöpft sind. Der erste, der diese Erfindung geschäftlich ausbeutete und ein mit Naturselbstdrucken ausgestattetes Pflanzenwerk herausgab, war der Arzt Johannes Hieronymus Kniphof zu Erfurt.) Schon seit dem Jahre 1728 hatte er sich dort für seinen eigenen Bedarf in der Buchdruckerei von Johann Michael Funcke, die er selbst …

… binomials as published in the Travels, a position amply justified by the quotations from published as well as unpublished material. The Appendix contains extracts from the manuscripts which accompanied the illustrations and specimens sent to Fothergill and Barclay. These comments often contain interesting side remarks on dates of first collection or introduction of now widely known plants. Ilicium floridanum, for instance, was collected first by Bartram in northern Florida in the winter of 1766, nine years earlier than the date quoted by the author of the name, John Ellis. Bartram referred to the plant as 'Anisum …

Compose him I am with Culpeper who was a century later. Why of his New Herbal published 1581, & by notes of his Dictionar de la Herbe were publised first in 1538? Then were two more Parts issued separately; & the three Parts appeared on one i. 1568. I don't say for Ann or Worked at Cockayne's Leechdoms published in Rolls Series? It is very interesting exhibit of Anglo-Saxon knowledge, & of the method in use. The editor was an excellent scholar, & I believe a most accurate translator; but if this you will have a opinion upon, however, I have not Told me sometime what you opinion is if you are to be good - I know h …

MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN SHAW'S GARDEN September 28, 1969. Dear George, Today is a lovely Sunday and here I sit in the library trying to do some homework and, of course, realizing that I need your help desperately. You know that the covers of the 1969 Bulletin were all illustrations out of Schöffer's Herbarius. Now Barbara asked me to suggest a herbal from which to copy illustrations for the 1970 Bulletin and to write something about the author. I, idiotically, as I realized too late, picked John Parkinson's Theatrum Botanicum, for the simple reason that this was the first that came to mind since it has been use …

[Choulant, "Graphisch Incunabeln", p.39.] It is hardly necessary to say that Johann de Cube had nothing to do with the earlier Latin "Herbarius". THE ILLUSTRATIONS The woodcuts of this edition are very remarkable. They form a marked contrast with the rude cuts of the Latin "Herbarius", being in many cases evidently direct studies from nature, and drawn with much skill. Such figures as the Yellow Flag (Acorus), the Winter Cherry (Alkekengi), and the Dodder, climbing on a plant with flowers and pods, show this clearly enough. They formed the basis of nearly all botanical figures for nearly half a century, being cop …

… atischen Botanik (ed. 4, 1935), reprinted in 1962 after the original issue became unobtainable. There is no English translation but there is a Spanish Edition (Madrid, 1944), with inferior reused half-tone illustrations. It is the greatest single twentieth century compendium of systematic botany, containing concise beautifully illustrated accounts of all plant groups, and footnotes to monographs and critical papers concerning each. Milton said "a good book is the life-blood of a master spirit: Wettestein documents Milton. More recently Alfred Gundersen drew the plants as they came into flower at the Brooklyn Bota …

Bot. Zeitung 1843. VI 152 Ulysses Aldrovandi 1522-1605 The botanical garden in Bologna contains his herbal more than 4000 plants, also a very large number of coloured drawings of plant preparations and their preparation.

… Culturist. N.Y. (1865). Illus. 186pp, binding stained, contents good. $1.00 66 GADEAU de KERVILLE, Henri. Notes sur les Fougeres. J. Paris. Rouen 1912-1928. Large 8vo, 48 plates in photocallography, 120pp. $2.50 67 GANONG, W.F. The Teaching Botanist. N.Y. 1895. $1.25 68 GOEBEL, O. Organographie der Pflanzen insbesondere der Angiospermen. 1895. 2nd edn. 4to, 300pp. $2.00 69 GRAY, A. Manual of British Plants. London 1821. 8th edn. $0.35 70 GRAY, A. Manual of British Plants. London 1821. 8th edn. Revised Edition. N.Y. 1901. Many illustrations. 27pp. $1.75 71 GOODALE, F.S. Physiological Botany. N.Y. 1862. Two parts.

… ity his most important work was the Mercurius Botanicus, which was based primarily upon the results of his various plant-hunting expeditions. This work, which was published in two parts in 1634 and 1641, was, in a sense, the earliest British flora, for it was the first work in which the attempt was made to enumerate all the known British plants, and to deal with them alone; the herbals, on the other hand, had aimed at comprehensiveness, and had not concentrated on the plants of this country. He had indeed planned to carry this undertaking much further, and, in collaboration with John Goodyer, to produce a regular

1690. P.5 pro. Alesh Pyms' diary In this my (fresh-man's) year, by my own proper study, labour and industry, I got the knowledge of all herbs, trees, & simples; without any body's instruction or help, except that of herals: so I could know my herb at first sight.

Herbals Originals Early notes H.O.I

… e, but the collections of Gaspard Bauhin and Felix Platter are exceptions in including figures as well as actual specimens. In the Platter herbarium there are 650 woodcuts; most of them are from well known herbals of the period, but there is also a rough but specially interesting set of pictures, which appear to be proofs taken from the blocks prepared by Leonhard Fuchs for a new edition of his herbal, which was destined to remain unpublished. Felix Platter did not confine himself to botany: he was an enthusiastic collector of natural and artistic treasures of all kinds, and foreigners were accustomed to visit hi …

… r. Cesalpino 1583 was one of earliest, wrote a treatise on the Umbelliferae - German herbologists Otto Brunfels Carfor Bauhin - 1st binary names; Leonard Fuchs Bock French l'Obel & J.P. Tournefort - last herbologists - 1st recognized genus in 1699. Italy-Cesalpino - first monograph England William Turner - a minister John Ray - greatest Eng. herbologist. In 1699 reduced equation to 3 - looking inside seeds- found the embryo, dividing into (Dicotyledoneae (true leaves), 1 seed leaf 2 Monocotyledoneae, 2 seed leaves, Gdicotyledoneae. As early as 1699, the thing which we consider modern naturally was not introduced.

… e reproduced in chronological order; a cross index to the numbers of the original drawings in the Fothergill volume is provided. One further item merits special mention: the very extensive bibliography of nearly 250 items. This bibliography, the chronology, the analyses of the plates, the annotated manuscript, the biographical and iconographical chapters by Ewan are presented together with this fine series of sixty botanical and zoological drawings of no mean artistry, in an imposing volume of refined typography and delicate reproduction. This is undoubtedly the finest tribute so far paid to that pioneer of Ameri …

1941, 439-42; reprinted from Ann.Rep. of the Lib. of Congress, Washington, 1941, 155-7, with editorial note by SARTON). The printing of herbals in China began before 1000 A.D.. The book of 1249, which Hummel has described, is a very fine example of early printing. Its ancestry can be traced back to a herbal compiled towards the end of the eleventh cen- tury, which was itself based upon earlier works...HUMMEL reproduces the figures of Euphorbia pekinensis Rupr. from the 1249 herbal; they are astonishingly similar to certain much later European illustrations of much later date. Perhaps the most famous of the early …

Rollins To Fogg 26-XII-1950 This collection of autographs of botanists, botanical collectors and patrons of botany, was started by Asa Gray during his first visit to Europe in 1839, Mrs. Gray adding to it extensively during and after Gray's death. A supplemental collection was given to the Gray Herbarium in 1890 by Isabella B. James. The latter contained autographs of a remarkable number of early American botanists. The entire collection, including not only autographs, but biographical notes, letters and often photographs, was arranged and mounted in five large volumes under Mrs. Gray's supervision. These she pre …