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History of Botany

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1740Bibliotheca botanica sive catalogus auctorum et librorum omnium qui de re botanica, de medicamentis ex vegetabilibus paratis, de re rustica, & de horticultura tractant. Accessit bibliotheca botanica Jo. Ant. Bumaldi seu potius O. Montalbani.
1760Select remains of the learned John Ray, M.A. and F.R.S. with his life by the late William Derham, D. D. Canon of Windsor, and F.R.S. Published by George Scott, M.A. and F.R.S.
1854​–1857Geschichte der Botanik. 4 vols.
1866Botanik der spaeteren Griechen vom dritten bis dreizehnten Jahrhuntert.
1872​–1877Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium inde a rerum botanicarum initiis ad nostra usque tempora. Quindecim millia operum recensens. Editionem novam reformatam.
1881Early European researches into the flora of China.
1897​–1904Les plantes dans l'antiquité et au moyen âge. Histoire, usages et symbolisme. 2 vols.
1914Some American medical botanists commemorated in our botanical nomenclature.
1922The old English herbals.
1924​–1929A bibliography of American natural history. The pioneer century. The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploriing expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. 3 vols.
1925Catalogue of early herbals.
1928The holy incense: A botanical, pharmacological, psychological and archaeological appreciation of the Bible.
1929Mittelalterliche Pflanzenkunde.
1933A catalogue of the works of Linnaeus (and publications more immediately relating thereto) perserved in the libraries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) and the British Museum (Natural History) (South Kennsington). Second edition
1938Herbals: their origin and evolution. A chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. 2nd edition.
1949A dictionary of Assyrian botany.
1952Plants of the Bible.
1956Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.
1956Lexique des termes de botanique en latin.
1958​–1961Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.
1961Japanese botany during the period of wood-block printing.
1966Kräuterbücher in Bild und Geschichte.
1970The herbarium of Aylmer Bourke Lambert: Notes on Its acquisition, dispersal, and present whereabouts,
1971Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 4, Alchimie, Chemie, Botanik, Agrikultur bis ca. 430H.
1971Linnaeus and the Linneans: The spreading of their ideas in systematic botany, 1735-1789.
1972Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam.(Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abteilung, Ergänzungsband VI, 2).
1975British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800. 3 vols.
1976​–2009Taxonomic literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types
1976John Ray, 1627-1705: A bibliography, 1660-1970: A descriptive bibliography of the works of John Ray ... with introductions, annotations, various indexes, and a supplement of new entries, additions and corrections by the author, Sir Geoffrey Keynes.
1979The illustrated herbal.
1981The shaping of Cambridge botany: A short history of whole-plant botany in Cambridge from the time of Ray into the present century. Published on the sequicentenary of Henslow's New Botanic Garden, 1831-1981.
1981History of botanical science: An account of the development of botany from ancient times to the present day.
1981Botanical exploration of Southern Africa: A illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora. Biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.
1982Women in nineteenth century American botany; a generally unrecognized constituency.
1984Seed physiology: Its history from antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century.
1985Dioscorides on pharmacy and medicine.
1985Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique.
1986Henrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus: A contribution to the history of Dutch colonial botany
1988Domestication of plants in the old world: The origin and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin.
1989An Oak Spring sylva: A selection of the rare books on trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library.
1990An Oak Spring pomona: A selection of the rare books on fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library.
1990Nehemiah Grew: A study and bibliography of his writings
1991Botany in medieval and renaissance universities.
1992The Cleveland herbal, botanical, and horticultural collections: A descriptive bibliography of pre-1830 works from the libraries of the Holden Arboretum, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Garden Center of Cleveland.
1994Hortus Eystettensis: The bishop's garden and Besler's magnificent book.
1994Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturalists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers.
1995Ethnobotany: Evolution of a discipline. Edited by Richard Schultes and Siri Sylvia von Reis.
1996The botanical garden of Padua 1545-1995. Translated by Gus Barker.
1997An Oak Spring flora: Flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time. A selection of rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon.
1998Economic botany and ethnobotany in Al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula: Tenth-Fifteenth Centuries), an unknown heritage of mankind.