List of florilegia and botanical codices
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- Enquiry into Plants TheophrastusTheophrastusTheophrastus , a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He came to Athens at a young age, and initially studied in Plato's school. After Plato's death he attached himself to Aristotle. Aristotle bequeathed to Theophrastus his writings, and...
(371—287 BC)
1-100 CE
- 77 De Materia Medica Libri Quinque Dioscorides (40-90 CE)
- Naturalis Historiae Gaius Pliny the ElderPliny the ElderGaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian...
(23-79 CE)
501-600 CE
- 515 Vienna DioscuridesVienna DioscuridesThe Vienna Dioscurides or Vienna Dioscorides is an early 6th century illuminated manuscript of De Materia Medica by Dioscorides in Greek. It is an important and rare example of a late antique scientific text...
(copy of De Materia Medica made for Juliana Anicia, daughter of Anicius OlybriusOlybriusAnicius Olybrius was Western Roman Emperor from April or May 472 to his death. He was in reality a puppet ruler, put on the throne by the Roman general of Germanic descent Ricimer, and was mainly interested in religion, while the actual power was held by Ricimer and his nephew Gundobad.-Family and...
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1401-1500
- 1475 AugsburgAugsburgAugsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
He nach volget das Puch der Natur Book of NatureBook of NatureFrequently deployed by philosophers, theologians, and scholars, the “Book of Nature” is a metaphorical device derived from the Latin Middle Ages that provides form, order, and intelligibility to the study of nature...
Konrad von Megenberg (1309–1374) - 1481/83 ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
/MainzMainzMainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...
Herbarium Apuleii PlatoniciHerbarium Apuleii PlatoniciHerbarium Apuleii Platonici depicts 131 plants with their synonymy and instructions for their use in medicines and was first published in 1481 at Monte Cassino near Rome by Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, a Sicilian courtier and physician to Pope Sixtus IV...
Apuleius Platonicus - 1483 VeniceVeniceVenice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
Naturalis Historiae Gaius Pliny the ElderPliny the ElderGaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian...
(23-79 CE) - 1484 GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
Latin Herbarius Peter SchöfferPeter SchöfferPeter Schöffer or Petrus Schoeffer was an early German printer, who studied in Paris and worked as a manuscript copyist in 1451 before apprenticing with Johannes Gutenberg and joining Johann Fust, a goldsmith, lawyer, and money lender.-Life and works:Working for Fust, Schöffer was the principal...
(1425–1502) - 1485 GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
German Herbarius Peter SchöfferPeter SchöfferPeter Schöffer or Petrus Schoeffer was an early German printer, who studied in Paris and worked as a manuscript copyist in 1451 before apprenticing with Johannes Gutenberg and joining Johann Fust, a goldsmith, lawyer, and money lender.-Life and works:Working for Fust, Schöffer was the principal...
(1425–1502) - 1486 AugsburgAugsburgAugsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
Gart der Gesundheit Peter SchöfferPeter SchöfferPeter Schöffer or Petrus Schoeffer was an early German printer, who studied in Paris and worked as a manuscript copyist in 1451 before apprenticing with Johannes Gutenberg and joining Johann Fust, a goldsmith, lawyer, and money lender.-Life and works:Working for Fust, Schöffer was the principal...
(1425–1502) - 1491 MainzMainzMainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...
Ortus sanitatis de herbis et planti de animalibus Jacob Meydenbach Peter SchöfferPeter SchöfferPeter Schöffer or Petrus Schoeffer was an early German printer, who studied in Paris and worked as a manuscript copyist in 1451 before apprenticing with Johannes Gutenberg and joining Johann Fust, a goldsmith, lawyer, and money lender.-Life and works:Working for Fust, Schöffer was the principal...
(1425–1502)
1501-1600
- 1526 EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
The Grete Herball - 1530 StrasbourgStrasbourgStrasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...
Herbarium Vivae Eicones Otto BrunfelsOtto BrunfelsOtto Brunfels was a German theologian and botanist...
(1488–1534), Hans WeiditzHans WeiditzHans Weiditz the Younger, Hans Weiditz der Jüngere, Hans Weiditz II , was a German Renaissance artist, also known as The Petrarch Master for his woodcuts illustrating Petrarch's De remediis utriusque fortunae, or Remedies for Both Good and Bad Fortune, or Phisicke Against Fortune... - 1530 StrasbourgStrasbourgStrasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...
Lustgärten und Pflantzungen Christian EgenolffChristian EgenolffChristian Egenolff or Egenolph , also known as Christian Egenolff, the Elder, was the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main, and best-known for his and re-issue of books by Adam Ries, Erasmus von Rotterdam and Ulrich von Hutten...
(1502–1555) - 1536 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
De Natura Stirpium Jean Ruel (1474–1537) - 1539 StrasbourgStrasbourgStrasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...
Kreüter Buch Hieronymus BockHieronymus BockHieronymus Bock was a German botanist, physician, and Lutheran minister who began the transition from medieval botany to the modern scientific worldview by arranging plants by their relation or resemblance....
(1498–1554) - 1542 Basle De Historia Stirpium Leonhart FuchsLeonhart FuchsLeonhart Fuchs , sometimes spelled Leonhard Fuchs, was a German physician and one of the three founding fathers of botany, along with Otto Brunfels and Hieronymus Bock .-Biography:...
(1501–1566) Albrecht Meyer Heinrich Füllmaurer Veit Rudolf Speckle - 1544 VeniceVeniceVenice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
Commentarii in Sex Libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Pietro Andrea MattioliPietro Andrea MattioliPietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli was a doctor and naturalist born in Siena.He received his MD at the University of Padua in 1523, and subsequently practiced the profession in Siena, Rome, Trento and Gorizia, becoming personal physician of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in Prague and Ambras...
(1501–1577) - 1551 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
A New Herball, Wherein are Conteyned the Names of Herbes (Part 1) William Turner (1508–1568) - 1562 CologneCologneCologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
A New Herball, Wherein are Conteyned the Names of Herbes (Part 2) William Turner (1508–1568) - 1554 Antwerp Cruijdeboeck Rembert DodoensRembert DodoensRembert Dodoens was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus.-Biography:...
(1517–1585) - 1561 StrasbourgStrasbourgStrasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...
Historia Stirpium Libri IV Conrad Gesner (1516–1565) - 1562 PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
Herbarz: Ginak Bylinar (Commentaries on Dioscorides) Pietro Andrea MattioliPietro Andrea MattioliPietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli was a doctor and naturalist born in Siena.He received his MD at the University of Padua in 1523, and subsequently practiced the profession in Siena, Rome, Trento and Gorizia, becoming personal physician of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in Prague and Ambras...
(1501–1577) - 1563 GoaGoaGoa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...
Coloquios dos Simples, e Drogas he Cousas Medicinais Garcia de OrtaGarcia de OrtaGarcia de Orta was a Portuguese Renaissance Sephardi Jewish physician and naturalist. He was a pioneer of tropical medicine.- Life :...
(1501–1568) - 1568-72 Florilegium in Victoria & Albert Museum Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (c1533-1588)
- 1569 SevilleSevilleSeville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
Historia Medicinal Indias Occidentales Nicolás MonardesNicolás MonardesNicolás Bautista Monardes was a Spanish physician and botanist.The genus Monarda was named for him.Monardes published several books of varying importance. In Diálogo llamado pharmacodilosis , he examines humanism and suggests studying several classical authors, principally Pedanius Dioscorides...
(1493–1588) - 1570 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Stirpium Adversaria Nova Matthias de LobelMatthias de LobelMathias de l'Obel, Mathias de Lobel or Matthaeus Lobelius was born in Lille, Nord-Pas de Calais, France, and died at Highgate, London, England after serving as a physician to William, Prince of Orange and James I of England.Lobel studied medicine in Leuven and Montpellier...
(1538–1616), Pierre Pena - 1576 Antwerp Plantarum Seu Stirpium Historia Matthias de LobelMatthias de LobelMathias de l'Obel, Mathias de Lobel or Matthaeus Lobelius was born in Lille, Nord-Pas de Calais, France, and died at Highgate, London, England after serving as a physician to William, Prince of Orange and James I of England.Lobel studied medicine in Leuven and Montpellier...
(1538–1616) - 1577 FrankfurtFrankfurtFrankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
Kreuterbuch. Künstliche Conterfeytunge der Bäume, Stauden Adam LonicerAdam LonicerAdam Lonicer, Adam Lonitzer or Adamus Lonicerus was a German botanist, noted for his 1557 revised version of Eucharius Rösslin’s herbal....
(1528–1586) - 1581 Antwerp Plantarum Seu Stirpium Icones Matthias de LobelMatthias de LobelMathias de l'Obel, Mathias de Lobel or Matthaeus Lobelius was born in Lille, Nord-Pas de Calais, France, and died at Highgate, London, England after serving as a physician to William, Prince of Orange and James I of England.Lobel studied medicine in Leuven and Montpellier...
(1538–1616) - 1583 FlorenceFlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
De Plantis Libri XVI Andrea CesalpinoAndrea CesalpinoAndrea Cesalpino was an Italian physician, philosopher and botanist....
(1519–1603) - 1583 Antwerp Stirpium Historiae Pemptades Sex Rembert DodoensRembert DodoensRembert Dodoens was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus.-Biography:...
(1517–1585) - 1585 RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
Herbario nuovo Castore Durante (1529-) - 1592 NaplesNaplesNaples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
Phytobasanos cui accessit vita Fabi et Lynceorum Fabio Colonna (1567–1650) - 1597 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Herball John GerardJohn GerardJohn Gerard aka John Gerarde was an English herbalist notable for his herbal garden and botany writing. In 1597 he published a large and heavily illustrated "Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes", which went on to be the most widely circulated botany book in English in the 17th century...
(1545–1611)
1601-1700
- 1601 Antwerp Rariorum Plantarum Historia Fungorum Historia Charles de l'ÉcluseCharles de l'ÉcluseCharles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius , seigneur de Watènes, was a Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th century scientific horticulturists....
(1526–1609) - 1605 Leiden Exoticorum Libri DecemExoticorum libri decemExoticorum libri decem is an illustrated zoological and botanical compendium in Latin, published at Leiden in 1605 by Charles de l'Écluse....
Charles de l'ÉcluseCharles de l'ÉcluseCharles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius , seigneur de Watènes, was a Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th century scientific horticulturists....
(1526–1609) - 1611 Antwerp Curae Posteriores Aethiopicum Charles de l'ÉcluseCharles de l'ÉcluseCharles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius , seigneur de Watènes, was a Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th century scientific horticulturists....
(1526–1609) - 1612 Frankfurt-am-Main Florilegium Amplissumum et Selectissimum Emanuel SweertEmanuel SweertEmanuel Sweert , was a Dutch painter and nurseryman noted for his publication in 1612 at Frankfurt-am-Main of Florilegium Amplissumum et Selectissimum....
(1552–1612) - 1613 Kraków Zielnik Szymon SyreńskiSimon SyreniusSimon Syrenius was a pre-Linnean Polish botanist and academic. A native of Oświęcim, he taught at the Jagiellonian University. Anna Vasa served as his patron, and with her help, Syrenius published a botanic atlas in five volumes consisting of 1,540 pages describing 765 plants.-External links:...
(1540—1611) - 1613 Hortus Eystettensis Basilius BeslerBasilius BeslerBasilius Besler was a respected Nuremberg apothecary and botanist, best known for his monumental Hortus Eystettensis. He was curator of the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria...
(1561–1629) - 1614-16 UtrechtUtrecht (city)Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...
Hortus floridus Crispijn van de Passe (1564–1637) - 1623 Basle Pinax Theatri Botanici Caspar Bauhin (1560–1624)
- 1629 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Paradisi in Sole John ParkinsonJohn Parkinson (botanist)John Parkinson was the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists. He was apothecary to James I and a founding member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in December 1617, and was later Royal Botanist to Charles I...
(1567–1650) - 1633 RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
De Florum Cultura Libri IV Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1584–1655) - 1635 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Canadensium Plantarum, Aliarumque Nondum Editarum Historia Jacques Philippe Cornut (1606–1651) - 1640 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Theatrum Botanicum John ParkinsonJohn Parkinson (botanist)John Parkinson was the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists. He was apothecary to James I and a founding member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in December 1617, and was later Royal Botanist to Charles I...
(1567–1650) - 1644 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Recueil des Plantes du Jardin du Roi Guy de la BrosseGuy de La BrosseGuy de La Brosse , was a French botanist, doctor, and pharmacist. A physician to King Louis XIII of France, he is also notable for the creation of a major botanical garden of medicinal herbs, which was commissioned by the king...
(1586–1641) - 1644 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Theophrasti Eresii de Historia Plantarum Johannes Bodaeus van Stapel (1602–1636) - 1646 RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu Libri Quatuor Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1584–1655), Cassiano dal PozzoCassiano dal PozzoCassiano dal Pozzo was an Italian scholar and patron of arts. The secretary of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, he was an antiquary in the classicizing circle of Rome, and a long-term friend and patron of Nicolas Poussin, whom he supported from his earliest arrival in Rome: Poussin in a letter...
(1588–1657) - 1648 Lugdun Historia Naturalis BrasiliaeHistoria Naturalis BrasiliaeHistoria Naturalis Brasiliae is the first scientific book about Brazil, written by Dutch naturalist Willem Piso and published in 1648. Piso makes use of observations made by the German naturalists Georg Marcgrave, and H. Gralitzio, in addition to John de Laet...
Willem PisoWillem PisoWillem Piso was a Dutch physician and naturalist who participated as an expedition doctor in Dutch Brazil from 1637 - 1644, sponsored by Earl Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen and the Dutch West India Company... - 1660 AltdorfAltdorf bei NürnbergAltdorf bei Nürnberg is a town in south-eastern Germany. It is situated 25 km east of Nuremberg, in the district Nürnberger Land. Its name literally means Altdorf near Nuremberg, to distinguish it from other Altdorfs.-History:...
Florae Altdorffinae Deliciae Hortenses sive Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Moritz Hoffmann (1622–1698) - 1672 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Waare Oeffening der Planten Abraham Munting (1626–1683) - 1672 OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
Plantarum Umbelliferum Robert MorisonRobert MorisonRobert Morison was a Scottish botanist and taxonomist. A forerunner of John Ray, he elucidated and developed the first systematic classification of plants.-Life:...
(1620–1683) - 1675 CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
Acta Medica et Philosophica Hafniensia Thomas Bartholin (1616–1680) - 1676 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Memoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes Dionys Dodart (1634–1707) - 1678 Danzig Exoticarum...Plantarum Centuria Prima Jacob Breyne (1637–1697)
- 1678-1703 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Hortus MalabaricusHortus MalabaricusHortus Malabaricus is a comprehensive treatise that deals with the medicinal properties of the flora in the Indian state of Kerala. Originally written in Latin, it was compiled over a period of nearly 30 years and published from Amsterdam during 1678-1693. The book was conceived by Hendrik van...
Hendrik van RheedeHendrik van RheedeHendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein was a military man and a colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company and naturalist. Between 1670 and 1677 he served as a governor of Dutch Malabar and employed 25 people on his book Hortus Malabaricus, describing 740 plants in the region...
et al. (1636–1691) - 1679 NurembergNurembergNuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung Maria Sibylla MerianMaria Sibylla MerianMaria Sibylla Merian was a naturalist and scientific illustrator who studied plants and insects and made detailed paintings about them...
(1647–1717) - 1687 Leiden Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi Catalogus Paul HermannPaul HermannPaul Hermann was a German born physician and botanist who for 15 years was director of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden....
(1646–1695) - 1680 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Aloidarium Historia Abraham Munting (1626–1683) - 1680 OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
Historia plantarum universalis Oxoniensis Robert MorisonRobert MorisonRobert Morison was a Scottish botanist and taxonomist. A forerunner of John Ray, he elucidated and developed the first systematic classification of plants.-Life:...
(1620–1683) - 1682 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Methodus Plantarum Nova John RayJohn RayJohn Ray was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him".He published important works on botany,...
(1628–1705) - 1682 The Anatomy of Plants Nehemiah GrewNehemiah GrewNehemiah Grew was an English plant anatomist and physiologist, very famously known as the "Father of Plant Physiology"...
(1641–1712) - 1685 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Simon van der Stel's Journal of his expedition in Namaqualand Simon van der StelSimon van der StelSimon van der Stel was the last Commander and first Governor of the Cape Colony, the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.-Background:...
(1639–1712) - 1686 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Voyage de Siam Guy TachardGuy TachardGuy Tachard , also known as Père Tachard, was a French Jesuit missionary and mathematician of the 17th century, who was sent on two occasions to the Kingdom of Siam by Louis XIV...
(1651–1712) - 1687 Leiden Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi Catalogus Paul HermannPaul HermannPaul Hermann was a German born physician and botanist who for 15 years was director of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden....
(ca. 1646-1695) - 16?? LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Codex Comptoniana Henry Compton (1632–1713) - 16?? Holland Codex Bentingiana Hans Willem BentinckWilliam Bentinck, 1st Earl of PortlandHans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, Baron Bentinck of Diepenheim and Schoonheten, KG, PC was a Dutch and English nobleman who became in an early stage the favourite of William, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder in the Netherlands, and future King of England. He was steady, sensible, modest...
(1649–1709) - 16?? Holland Codex Witsenii Nicolaas Witsen (1641–1717)
- 1686-1704 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Historia plantarum generalis John RayJohn RayJohn Ray was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him".He published important works on botany,...
(1628–1705) van Huysum - 1689 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Second Voyage Guy TachardGuy TachardGuy Tachard , also known as Père Tachard, was a French Jesuit missionary and mathematician of the 17th century, who was sent on two occasions to the Kingdom of Siam by Louis XIV...
(1651–1712) - 1690 The HagueThe HagueThe Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
Horti Beaumonti Exoticarum Plantarum Catalogus Franz KiggelaerFranz KiggelaerFranz Kiggelaer was a Dutch botanist, apothecary and curator of the garden of Simon van Beaumont in Leiden. In 1690 he published a plant catalogue of this garden under the title "Horti Beaumontiani: Exoticarum Plantarum Catalogus ..."....
(1648–1722) - 1691 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Phytographia Leonard PlukenetLeonard PlukenetLeonard Plukenet was an English botanist, Royal Professor of Botany and gardener to Queen Mary. Plukenet published Phytographia in four parts in which he described and illustrated rare exotic plants. It is a copiously illustrated work of more than 2 700 figures and is frequently cited in books...
(1642–1706) - 1693 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Description des plantes de l'Amérique Charles PlumierCharles PlumierCharles Plumier was a French botanist, after whom the Frangipani genus Plumeria is named. Plumier is considered one of the most important of the botanical explorers of his time...
(1646–1704) - 1694 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Eléments de botanique Institutiones Rei Herbariae Joseph Pitton de TournefortJoseph Pitton de TournefortJoseph Pitton de Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants.- Biography :...
(1656–1708) - 1696 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Almagestum Leonard PlukenetLeonard PlukenetLeonard Plukenet was an English botanist, Royal Professor of Botany and gardener to Queen Mary. Plukenet published Phytographia in four parts in which he described and illustrated rare exotic plants. It is a copiously illustrated work of more than 2 700 figures and is frequently cited in books...
(1642–1706) - 1696 BrandenburgBrandenburgBrandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
Index Nominum Plantarum Universalis Christian Mentzel (1622–1701) - 1697 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Horti medici amstelodamensis (vol.1) Jan Commelijn (1629–1692) - 1698 Leiden Paradisus Batavus Paul HermannPaul HermannPaul Hermann was a German born physician and botanist who for 15 years was director of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden....
(1646–1695) - 1700 NurembergNurembergNuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
Flora Noribergensis Johann Georg Volckamer (1662–1744) - 1700 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Institutiones Rei Herbariae Joseph Pitton de TournefortJoseph Pitton de TournefortJoseph Pitton de Tournefort was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants.- Biography :...
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- 1701 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Horti medici amstelodamensis (vol.2) Caspar CommelijnCaspar CommelijnCaspar Commelijn or Caspar Commelin , was a Dutch botanist. He was the son of the bookseller, historian and publisher, Casparus Commelijn and his first wife, Margrieta Heydanus...
(1668–1731) - 1702-9 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Gazophylacii naturae & Artis Decas I-X James PetiverJames PetiverJames Petiver was a London apothecary, a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as London's informal Temple Coffee House Botany Club, famous for his study of botany and entomology.-Life:...
(1663–1718) - 1703 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera Charles PlumierCharles PlumierCharles Plumier was a French botanist, after whom the Frangipani genus Plumeria is named. Plumier is considered one of the most important of the botanical explorers of his time...
(1646–1704) - 1703 Leiden Praeludia botanica Caspar CommelijnCaspar CommelijnCaspar Commelijn or Caspar Commelin , was a Dutch botanist. He was the son of the bookseller, historian and publisher, Casparus Commelijn and his first wife, Margrieta Heydanus...
(1668–1731) - 1704 De Plantis & Insectis Quibusdam Rarioribus in Hispania Observatis Johann Philipp BreyneJohann Philipp BreyneJohann Philipp Breyne , son of Jacob Breyne , was a German botanist, palaeontologist, zoologist and entomologist. He is best known for his work on the Polish cochineal , an insect formerly used in production of red dye...
(1680–1764) - 1705 Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium Maria Sibylla MerianMaria Sibylla MerianMaria Sibylla Merian was a naturalist and scientific illustrator who studied plants and insects and made detailed paintings about them...
(1647–1717) - 1706 Horti medici amstelodamensis Planta Rariores et Exoticae Caspar CommelijnCaspar CommelijnCaspar Commelijn or Caspar Commelin , was a Dutch botanist. He was the son of the bookseller, historian and publisher, Casparus Commelijn and his first wife, Margrieta Heydanus...
(1668–1731) - 1707-25 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbadoes, Nieves, St. Christophers and Jamaica Hans SloaneHans SloaneSir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, PRS was an Ulster-Scot physician and collector, notable for bequeathing his collection to the British nation which became the foundation of the British Museum...
(1660–1753) - 1712 LemgoLemgoLemgo is a city in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of c. 42,000.It was founded in the 12th century by Bernhard II at the crossroad of two merchant routes. Lemgo was a member of the Hanseatic League, a medieval trading association of free cities in several...
Amoenitatum Exoticarum Engelbert KaempferEngelbert KaempferEngelbert Kaempfer , a German naturalist and physician is known for his tour of Russia, Persia, India, South-East Asia, and Japan between 1683 and 1693. He wrote two books about his travels...
(1651–1716) - 1714 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Icones Plantarum per Galliam, Hispaniam et Italiam Observata ad Vivum Exhibitarum Jacques Barrelier (1606–1673) - 1716-28 CambridgeCambridgeThe city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
Historia Plantarum Succulentarum Richard BradleyRichard Bradley (botanist)Richard Bradley was an English botanist. His early life is obscure and even his date of birth is uncertain, possibly it was 1688....
(1688–1732) - 1717 Leiden Musaeum Zeylanicum Paul HermannPaul HermannPaul Hermann was a German born physician and botanist who for 15 years was director of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden....
(1646–1695) - 1719 NurembergNurembergNuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
Caput Bonae Spei Hodiernum Peter KolbePeter KolbePeter Kolbe was sent to the Cape of Good Hope with letters of introduction from Nicolaas Witsen, mayor of Amsterdam, with a mandate to compile a comprehensive description of South Africa and for astronomical and surveying research...
(1675–1726) - 1720 Leiden Index Altera Plantarum Herman BoerhaaveHerman BoerhaaveHerman Boerhaave was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital. His main achievement was to demonstrate the relation of symptoms to lesions...
(1668–1739) - 1721 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
A Philosophical Treatise on Husbandry and Gardening Georg Andreas AgricolaGeorg Andreas AgricolaGeorg Andreas Agricola or Georgio Andrea Agricola or Georg Andreas Bauer or George André Agricola was a German physician and botanist from Regensburg....
(1672–1738) - 1723 FlorenceFlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
Catalogus Plantarum Horti Pisani Michelangelo TilliMichelangelo TilliMichelangelo Tilli or Michaele Angelo Tilli was an Italian physician and botanist, noted for his publication of "Catalogus Plantarum Horti Pisani" ....
(1655–1740) - 1724 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum Johann Jacob DilleniusJohann Jacob DilleniusJohann Jacob Dillen Dillenius was a German botanist.Dillen was born at Darmstadt and was educated at the University of Giessen, where he wrote several botanical papers for the Ephemerides naturae curiosorum, and printed, in 1719, his Catalogus plantarum sponte circa Gissam nascentium, illustrated...
(1684–1747) - 1724 Flora Capensis Johann Philipp BreyneJohann Philipp BreyneJohann Philipp Breyne , son of Jacob Breyne , was a German botanist, palaeontologist, zoologist and entomologist. He is best known for his work on the Polish cochineal , an insect formerly used in production of red dye...
(1680–1764) Jacob Breyne - 1728-36 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Historia Plantarum Rariorum John MartynJohn Martyn (botanist)John Martyn or Joannis Martyn was an English botanist.Martyn's is best known for his Historia Plantarum Rariorum , and his translation, with valuable agricultural and botanical notes, of the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil...
(1699–1768) Jacob van HuysumJacob van HuysumJacob van Huysum , was a Dutch botanical artist.Both his father Justus van Huysum , and his brother Jan van Huysum , were celebrated flower painters. His manner of painting was very like that of his brother. His approach to botanical illustration, while preserving botanical accuracy, captured a...
(1687–1740) William HoustounWilliam Houstoun (botanist)William Houstoun was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who retrieved plants from Mexico and South America.He was born in Houston, Renfrewshire. He began a degree course in medicine at St Andrew's University but completed his medical training at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 1729...
MasseyMasseyMassey may refer to:In places:* Massey, New Zealand, a suburb Auckland* Massey, Ontario, Canada* Massey Island, Nunavut, Canada* Massey, Maryland, United StatesPeople with the surname:* Massey In education:...
G. Sartorys R. Sartorius - 1728-40 Plantarum minus cognitarum centuria Johann Christian BuxbaumJohann Christian BuxbaumJohann Christian Buxbaum , was a German physician, botanist and traveller.He was born in Merseburg and studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig, Wittenberg, Jena, and Leyden....
(1693–1730) Johann Georg GmelinJohann Georg GmelinJohann Georg Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist and geographer.- Early life and education :Gmelin was born in Tübingen, the son of an professor at the University of Tübingen. He was a gifted child and begun attending university lectures at the age of 14. In 1727, he graduated with a medical...
(1709–1755) - 1730-47 The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands Mark CatesbyMark CatesbyMark Catesby was an English naturalist. Between 1731 and 1743 Catesby published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America...
(1683–1749) - 1731 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
The Gardeners DictionaryThe Gardeners DictionaryThe Gardeners Dictionary was a widely cited reference series, written by Philip Miller, which tended to focus on plants cultivated in England. Many editions of the series were published.-Editions:-References:**-External links:*...
Philip MillerPhilip MillerPhilip Miller FRS was a Scottish botanist.Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 until he was pressured to retire shortly before his death...
(1691–1771) - 1732 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Hortus Elthamensis Johann Jacob DilleniusJohann Jacob DilleniusJohann Jacob Dillen Dillenius was a German botanist.Dillen was born at Darmstadt and was educated at the University of Giessen, where he wrote several botanical papers for the Ephemerides naturae curiosorum, and printed, in 1719, his Catalogus plantarum sponte circa Gissam nascentium, illustrated...
(1684–1747) - 1734-65 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri Albertus SebaAlbertus SebaAlbertus Seba was a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and collector.-Career:Born in East-Frisia, Seba moved to Amsterdam as an apprentice and opened around 1700 a pharmacy near the harbour. Seba asked sailors and ship surgeons to bring exotic plants and animal products he could use for preparing drugs...
(1665–1736) - 1735 Leiden Systema naturaeSystema NaturaeThe book was one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carolus Linnaeus. The first edition was published in 1735...
Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) - 1735 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Bibliotheca botanicaBibliotheca BotanicaBibliotheca Botanica was written by Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist and naturalist Carl Linnaeus . The book was written and published in Amsterdam when Linnaeus was twenty-eight and dedicated to the botanist Johannes Burman...
Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) - 1735 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Fundamenta botanicaFundamenta BotanicaFundamenta Botanica was one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus and issued both as a separate work and part of the Bibliotheca Botanica.This book states, for the first time, Linnaeus's ideas for the reformation of botanical taxonomy...
Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) - 1736-48 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Duidelyke Vertoning - Beschryvingen der Bloemdragende Gewassen Johann Wilhelm WeinmannJohann Wilhelm WeinmannJohann Wilhelm Weinmann , apothecary and botanist, is noted for his creation of the florilegium Phytanthoza iconographia between 1737 and 1745, an ambitious project which resulted in eight folio volumes with more than 1 000 hand-coloured engravings of several thousand plants.He was born in...
(1683–1741) - 1737 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Thesaurus Zeylanicus Catalogus Plantarum Africanarum Johannes BurmanJohannes BurmanJohannes Burman , was a Dutch botanist and physician. Burman specialized in plants from Ceylon, Amboina and Cape Colony. The name Pelargonium was introduced by Johannes Burman....
(1707–1779) - 1737 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Hortus CliffortianusHortus CliffortianusThe Hortus Cliffortianus is a work of early botanical literature published in 1738.The work was a collaboration between Carl Linnaeus and Georg Dionysius Ehret, financed by George Clifford in 1735-1736. Clifford, a wealthy Amsterdam banker was a keen botanist with a large herbarium and governor of...
Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) Georg Dionysius EhretGeorg Dionysius EhretGeorg Dionysius Ehret was a botanist and entomologist, and is best known for his botanical illustrations.Ehret was born in Germany to Ferdinand Christian Ehret, a gardener and competent draughtsman, and Anna Maria Ehret. Beginning his working life as a gardener's apprentice near Heidelberg, he...
(1708–1770) - 1737-45 Ratisbon Phytanthoza Iconographia Johann Wilhelm WeinmannJohann Wilhelm WeinmannJohann Wilhelm Weinmann , apothecary and botanist, is noted for his creation of the florilegium Phytanthoza iconographia between 1737 and 1745, an ambitious project which resulted in eight folio volumes with more than 1 000 hand-coloured engravings of several thousand plants.He was born in...
(1683–1741) Georg Dionysius EhretGeorg Dionysius EhretGeorg Dionysius Ehret was a botanist and entomologist, and is best known for his botanical illustrations.Ehret was born in Germany to Ferdinand Christian Ehret, a gardener and competent draughtsman, and Anna Maria Ehret. Beginning his working life as a gardener's apprentice near Heidelberg, he...
(1708–1770) - 1737-39 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
A curious herbal, containing five hundred cuts Elizabeth BlackwellElizabeth Blackwell (illustrator)Elizabeth Blackwell , was a Scottish botanical illustrator and author. She achieved fame as a botanical illustrator, and was both artist and engraver for the plates of "A Curious Herbal", published between 1737 and 1739...
(1700–1758) - 1738-9 Rariorum Africanarum Plantarum Johannes BurmanJohannes BurmanJohannes Burman , was a Dutch botanist and physician. Burman specialized in plants from Ceylon, Amboina and Cape Colony. The name Pelargonium was introduced by Johannes Burman....
(1707–1779) - 1739 St Petersburg Stirpium rariorum in Imperio Rutheno Johannes Amman (1707–1741) Philipp Georg Mattarnovy (1716–1742)
- 1739 Danzig Prodromi fasciculi rariorum plantarum primus et secundus Johann Philipp BreyneJohann Philipp BreyneJohann Philipp Breyne , son of Jacob Breyne , was a German botanist, palaeontologist, zoologist and entomologist. He is best known for his work on the Polish cochineal , an insect formerly used in production of red dye...
(1680–1764) - 1741-1755 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Herbarium Amboinense Georg Eberhard RumphiusGeorg Eberhard RumphiusGeorg Eberhard Rumphius or originally Rumpf was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work, Herbarium Amboinense....
/Georg Eberhard Rumpf (1627–1702) - 1742 OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
Historia muscorum Johann Jacob DilleniusJohann Jacob DilleniusJohann Jacob Dillen Dillenius was a German botanist.Dillen was born at Darmstadt and was educated at the University of Giessen, where he wrote several botanical papers for the Ephemerides naturae curiosorum, and printed, in 1719, his Catalogus plantarum sponte circa Gissam nascentium, illustrated...
(1684–1747) - 1747 StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
Flora Zeylanica Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) - 1750-73 Plantae selectae Georg Dionysius EhretGeorg Dionysius EhretGeorg Dionysius Ehret was a botanist and entomologist, and is best known for his botanical illustrations.Ehret was born in Germany to Ferdinand Christian Ehret, a gardener and competent draughtsman, and Anna Maria Ehret. Beginning his working life as a gardener's apprentice near Heidelberg, he...
(1708–1770) Christoph Jacob Trew
1750-73 Nuremberg
Nuremberg
Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first female doctor in the United States and the first on the UK Medical Register...
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- 1750-86 NurembergNurembergNuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
Hortus Nitidissimus Christoph Jacob Trew - 1753 StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
Species PlantarumSpecies PlantarumSpecies Plantarum was first published in 1753, as a two-volume work by Carl Linnaeus. Its prime importance is perhaps that it is the primary starting point of plant nomenclature as it exists today. This means that the first names to be considered validly published in botany are those that appear...
Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) - 1754 StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
Genera PlantarumGenera PlantarumGenera Plantarum is a publication of Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus . The fifth edition served as a complementary volume to Species Plantarum . Article 13 of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature states that "It is agreed to associate generic names which first appear in Linnaeus'...
Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) - 1758 Pomologia Fructologia Johann Hermann Knoop
- 1761-1883 Flora DanicaFlora DanicaA product of The Age of Enlightenment, Flora Danica is a comprehensive atlas of botany, containing folio-sized pictures of all the wild plants native to Denmark, in the period from 1761-1883....
Georg Christian OederGeorg Christian OederGeorg Christian Edler von Oldenburg Oeder was a German-Danish botanist, medical doctor, economist and social reformer. His name is particularly associated with the initiation of the plate work Flora Danica.-Life and work:Oeder was the son of a Bavarian parish minister, Georg Ludwig Oeder...
et al. - 1763-64 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Familles des Plantes Michel AdansonMichel AdansonMichel Adanson was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. At the end of...
(1727–1806) - 1767 StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
Descriptiones Plantarum ex Capite Bonae Spei Peter Jonas Bergius (1730–1790) - 1767 StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
Mantissa Plantarum Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) - 1767 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Hortus Europae Americanus Mark CatesbyMark CatesbyMark Catesby was an English naturalist. Between 1731 and 1743 Catesby published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America...
(1683–1749) - 1767-68 PalermoPalermoPalermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
La Natura e Coltura de'Fiori fisicamente esposta in due trattati Filippo Arena (1708–1789) P. M. Camareri - 1769-70 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
The British Herbal John EdwardsJohn Edwards (painter)John Edwards was an English botanist, painter, designer and illustrator, noted for his serial publication, The British Herbal....
(1742–1815) - 1770-76 ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin - 1773-78 ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
Floræ Austriacæ Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin - 1774-83 Herbier Artificiel Pierre Buchoz
- 1775 Leiden Afbeeldingen van zeldzaame gewassen Nicolaas Meerburgh
- 1776-83 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Flora Parisiensis Pierre Bulliard (1752–1793) - 1777 Illustrations of the sexual system of Linnaeus John Miller Johann Sebastien Mueller (1715–1790)
- 1777 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Flora LondinensisFlora LondinensisFlora Londinensis is a book that described the flora found in the London region of the mid 18th century. The Flora was published by William Curtis in six large volumes...
William CurtisWilliam CurtisWilliam Curtis was an English botanist and entomologist, who was born at Alton, Hampshire.Curtis began as an apothecary, before turning his attention to botany and other natural history. The publications he prepared effectively reached a wider audience than early works on the subject had intended...
(1746–1799) James SowerbyJames SowerbyJames Sowerby was an English naturalist and illustrator. Contributions to published works, such as A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland or English Botany, include his detailed and appealing plates...
Sydenham EdwardsSydenham EdwardsSydenham Teast Edwards was a natural history illustrator.Edwards was born in 1768 in Usk, Monmouthshire, the son of Lloyd Pittell Edwards, a schoolmaster and organist, and his wife, Mary Reese, who had been married on 26 September 1765 at Llantilio Crossenny Church and where Sydenham was...
William KilburnWilliam KilburnWilliam Kilburn was an illustrator for William Curtis' Flora Londinensis, as well as a leading designer and printer of calico. A few hundred originals of his water colour designs, make up the Kilburn Album, housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.William Kilburn was the son of a Dublin... - 1780-95 Herbier de la France Pierre Bulliard (1742–93)
- 1783-1801 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
A Collection of Flowers drawn after Nature John EdwardsJohn Edwards (painter)John Edwards was an English botanist, painter, designer and illustrator, noted for his serial publication, The British Herbal....
(1742–1815) - 1784 LeipzigLeipzigLeipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
Flora Japonica Carl Thunberg (1743–1828) - 1785 StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope Anders Erikson Sparrman (1748–1820) - 1786 HalleHalle, Saxony-AnhaltHalle is the largest city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is also called Halle an der Saale in order to distinguish it from the town of Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia...
Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus Georg ForsterGeorg ForsterJohann Georg Adam Forster was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific...
(1754–1794) - 1786 NurembergNurembergNuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
Hortus nitidissimus Christoph Jacob Trew (1695–1769) - 1786-89 StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
Catalogue of the Museum Carlsonianum Anders Erikson Sparrman (1748–1820) - 1787 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
The Botanical Magazine William CurtisWilliam CurtisWilliam Curtis was an English botanist and entomologist, who was born at Alton, Hampshire.Curtis began as an apothecary, before turning his attention to botany and other natural history. The publications he prepared effectively reached a wider audience than early works on the subject had intended...
(1746–1799) - 1787 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Cours de botanique Pierre Philippe Alyon (1758–1816) - 1788 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Recueil des Plantes Gravée par Ordre du Roi Louis XIV Dionys Dodart (1634–1707) - 1788 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Cornus :specimen botanicum Charles Louis L'Héritier de BrutelleCharles Louis L'Héritier de BrutelleCharles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle was an 18th century French botanist and magistrate. Born into an affluent upper-class Parisian family, connections with the French Royal Court secured him the position of Superindent of Parisian Waters and Forests at the age of twenty-six...
(1746–1800) Pierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph Redouté , was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers".... - 1788 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Monadelphiae classis dissertationes decem Antonio J. Cavanilles - 1788-93 StockholmStockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia Carl Thunberg (1743–1828) - 1789 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria William PatersonWilliam Paterson (explorer)Colonel William Paterson, FRS was a Scottish soldier, explorer, Lieutenant governor and botanist best known for leading early settlement in Tasmania. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Paterson when citing a botanical name.-Early years:A native of Montrose, Scotland, Paterson was...
(1755–1810) - 1790 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa François Le VaillantFrançois Le VaillantFrançois Levaillant or Le Vaillant was a French author, explorer, naturalist, zoological collector, and noted ornithologist.-Biography:...
(1753–1824) - 1790 Plantes grasses Pierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph Redouté , was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers"....
(1759–1840) - 1790-95 Medical Botany William Woodville James SowerbyJames SowerbyJames Sowerby was an English naturalist and illustrator. Contributions to published works, such as A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland or English Botany, include his detailed and appealing plates...
- 1790-1813 English BotanyEnglish BotanyEnglish Botany is the title of a major publication of British plants, an enormous set of volumes that was issued between 1790 and 1813. The brief, but formal descriptions were supplied by the founder of the Linnean Society, James Edward Smith, and published and illustrated by the botanical...
Sowerby's BotanyEnglish BotanyEnglish Botany is the title of a major publication of British plants, an enormous set of volumes that was issued between 1790 and 1813. The brief, but formal descriptions were supplied by the founder of the Linnean Society, James Edward Smith, and published and illustrated by the botanical...
James SowerbyJames SowerbyJames Sowerby was an English naturalist and illustrator. Contributions to published works, such as A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland or English Botany, include his detailed and appealing plates...
James Edward SmithJames Edward SmithSir James Edward Smith was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world... - 1793 HaarlemHaarlemHaarlem is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic...
Icones Plantarum Rariorum - 1794 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Coloured Engravings of Heaths Henry Charles AndrewsHenry Charles AndrewsHenry Charles Andrews , was an English botanist, botanical artist and engraver.He lived in Knightsbridge and was married to the daughter of John Kennedy of Hammersmith, a nurseryman who assisted Andrews in the descriptions of the plants he illustrated.He was an accomplished and unusual botanical...
fl.(1794–1830) - 1794 UppsalaUppsala- Economy :Today Uppsala is well established in medical research and recognized for its leading position in biotechnology.*Abbott Medical Optics *GE Healthcare*Pfizer *Phadia, an offshoot of Pharmacia*Fresenius*Q-Med...
Prodromus Plantarum Capensium Carl Thunberg (1743–1828) - 1796 WeimarWeimarWeimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...
Der geöffnete Blumengarten August Iohann Georg Carl Batsch - 1797 A Description of the Genus Cinchona Aylmer Bourke LambertAylmer Bourke LambertAylmer Bourke Lambert was a British botanist, one of the first fellows of the Linnean Society.He is best known for his work A description of the genus Pinus, issued in several parts 1803-1824, a sumptuously illustrated folio volume detailing all of the conifers then known...
(1761–1842) - 1797-1812 Botanist's Repository Henry Charles AndrewsHenry Charles AndrewsHenry Charles Andrews , was an English botanist, botanical artist and engraver.He lived in Knightsbridge and was married to the daughter of John Kennedy of Hammersmith, a nurseryman who assisted Andrews in the descriptions of the plants he illustrated.He was an accomplished and unusual botanical...
fl.(1794–1830) - 1798 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Histoire des champignons de la France Pierre Bulliard (1742–93) - 1798 MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
Flora Peruviana, et Chilensis Hipólito Ruiz - 1798-99 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Flora Atlantica :sive historia plantarum quae in Atlante René Louiche DesfontainesRené Louiche DesfontainesRené Louiche Desfontaines was a French botanist.Desfontaines was born near Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medicine. His interest in botany originated from lectures at the Jardin des Plantes given by Louis Guillaume Lemonnier...
(1750–1833) Pierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph Redouté , was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers"....
(1759–1840) - 1799-1807 Temple of Flora Robert John ThorntonRobert John ThorntonRobert John Thornton was an English physician and botanical writer, noted for "A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnæus" and "The British Flora" of 1812. He was the son of Bonnell Thornton and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge...
(1768–1837) Thomas MedlandThomas MedlandThomas Medland was an English engraver and draughtsman. He was drawing-master at Haileybury College and exhibited at the Royal Academy. He illustrated numerous works during his lifetime and was landscape engraver to HRH the Prince of Wales....
(1755–1833) Philip ReinaglePhilip ReinaglePhilip Reinagle was an English animal, landscape and botanical painter.- Biography :Philip Reinagle entered the schools of the Royal Academy in 1769, and afterwards became a pupil of Allan Ramsay , whom he assisted in the numerous portraits of George III and Queen Charlotte...
(1749–1833) - 1799-1807 Illustrations of the New Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus and Temple of Flora Robert John ThorntonRobert John ThorntonRobert John Thornton was an English physician and botanical writer, noted for "A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnæus" and "The British Flora" of 1812. He was the son of Bonnell Thornton and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge...
(1768–1837) Thomas MedlandThomas MedlandThomas Medland was an English engraver and draughtsman. He was drawing-master at Haileybury College and exhibited at the Royal Academy. He illustrated numerous works during his lifetime and was landscape engraver to HRH the Prince of Wales....
(1755–1833) Philip ReinaglePhilip ReinaglePhilip Reinagle was an English animal, landscape and botanical painter.- Biography :Philip Reinagle entered the schools of the Royal Academy in 1769, and afterwards became a pupil of Allan Ramsay , whom he assisted in the numerous portraits of George III and Queen Charlotte...
(1749–1833) - 1799-1837 Plantarum historia succulentarum A. P. de CandolleA. P. de CandolleAugustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
(1778–1841) Pierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph Redouté , was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers"....
(1759–1840) - 1800 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Description des plantes nouvelles Etienne Pierre VentenatÉtienne Pierre VentenatÉtienne Pierre Ventenat was a French botanist born in Limoges. He was the brother of naturalist Louis Ventenat ....
(1757–1808) - 1800-22 ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum Ferdinand Bernhard VietzFerdinand Bernhard VietzFerdinand Bernhard Vietz , was an Austrian pharmacologist, a Doctor of the Healing Arts and Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Vienna, and is best known for Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum cum Earum Fructus ususque Descriptione , an 11-volume compilation of...
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- 1801 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Histoire des Chênes de l'Amérique André MichauxAndré MichauxAndré Michaux was a French botanist and explorer.-Biography:Michaux was born in Satory, now part of Versailles, Yvelines. After the death of his wife within a year of their marriage he took up the study of botany and was a student of Bernard de Jussieu...
(1746–1802) Pierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph Redouté , was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers"....
(1759–1840) - 1801-09 ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
Icones et descriptiones Graminum austriacorum Nikolaus Thomas Host - 1802-12 ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae Pál KitaibelPál KitaibelPál Kitaibel was a Hungarian botanist and chemist.He was born at Mattersburg and studied botany and chemistry at the undersity of Buda. He became professor taught these subjects at Pest in 1794...
(1757–1817) Franz de Paula Adam von WaldsteinFranz de Paula Adam von WaldsteinFranz de Paula Adam Norbert Wenzel Ludwig Valentin von Waldstein was an Austrian soldier, explorer and naturalist....
(1759–1823) Karl Schutz Johann Schutz - 1802-15 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Les liliacées RedoutéPierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph Redouté , was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers"....
(1759–1840) de CandolleA. P. de CandolleAugustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
François de Laroche Alire Raffeneau-Delile Louis-Jean Allais (1762–1833) - 1802 Astragalogia, nempe astragali Pierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph Redouté , was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers"....
(1759–1840) - 1804 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Voyage à l’ouest des Monts Alléghanys François André MichauxFrançois André MichauxFrançois André Michaux was a French botanist, son of André Michaux. He accompanied his father to the United States, and his Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale contains the results of his explorations and gives an account of the distribution and the scientific...
(1770–1855) - 1804-12 Pomona Britannica George BrookshawGeorge BrookshawGeorge Brookshaw , also known as G. Brown, was a notable English painter and illustrator from London. Much of his work has been digitized....
(1751–1823) - 1807 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Le voyage aux régions equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent, fait en 1799-1804 Alexander von HumboldtAlexander von HumboldtFriedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt...
(1769–1859) Aimé BonplandAimé BonplandAimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland was a French explorer and botanist.Bonpland's real name was Goujaud, and he was born in La Rochelle, a coastal city in France. After serving as a surgeon in the French army, and studying under J. N...
(1773–1858) - 1807-20 UppsalaUppsala- Economy :Today Uppsala is well established in medical research and recognized for its leading position in biotechnology.*Abbott Medical Optics *GE Healthcare*Pfizer *Phadia, an offshoot of Pharmacia*Fresenius*Q-Med...
Flora Capensis Carl Thunberg (1743–1828) - 1808 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Fleurs et Fruits graveés Pancrace BessaPancrace BessaPancrace Bessa was a French natural history artist, best known for his botanical illustrations. Bessa was a student of the great engraver Gerard van Spaendonck and worked alongside Pierre-Joseph Redouté, some of whose influence shows in Bessa's detailed and delicate treatment of his subjects...
(1772–1835) - 1809 ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
Fragmenta botanica Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin - 1810 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Botanical Extracts Or Philosophy of Botany Robert John ThorntonRobert John ThorntonRobert John Thornton was an English physician and botanical writer, noted for "A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnæus" and "The British Flora" of 1812. He was the son of Bonnell Thornton and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge...
(1768–1837) - 1810-13 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amerique septentrionale André MichauxAndré MichauxAndré Michaux was a French botanist and explorer.-Biography:Michaux was born in Satory, now part of Versailles, Yvelines. After the death of his wife within a year of their marriage he took up the study of botany and was a student of Bernard de Jussieu...
(1746–1802) François André MichauxFrançois André MichauxFrançois André Michaux was a French botanist, son of André Michaux. He accompanied his father to the United States, and his Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale contains the results of his explorations and gives an account of the distribution and the scientific...
(1770–1855) Pierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph Redouté , was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers"....
(1759–1840) - 1811 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Pomona Herefordiensis Thomas Andrew KnightThomas Andrew KnightThomas Andrew Knight, FRS was a horticulturalist and botanist who lived at Downton Castle, Herefordshire. He was the brother of Richard Payne Knight....
(1759–1838) - 1812 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
The British Flora Robert John ThorntonRobert John ThorntonRobert John Thornton was an English physician and botanical writer, noted for "A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnæus" and "The British Flora" of 1812. He was the son of Bonnell Thornton and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge...
(1768–1837) - 1812-17 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Description des plantes rares cultivees a Malmaison et a Navarre Aime BonplandAimé BonplandAimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland was a French explorer and botanist.Bonpland's real name was Goujaud, and he was born in La Rochelle, a coastal city in France. After serving as a surgeon in the French army, and studying under J. N...
(1773–1858) Pierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph Redouté , was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers"....
(1759–1840) - 1814-27 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Herbier général de l'amateur Jean-Claude Michel Mordant de Launay (1750–1816) - 1815-47 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Edwards's Botanical Register Sydenham EdwardsSydenham EdwardsSydenham Teast Edwards was a natural history illustrator.Edwards was born in 1768 in Usk, Monmouthshire, the son of Lloyd Pittell Edwards, a schoolmaster and organist, and his wife, Mary Reese, who had been married on 26 September 1765 at Llantilio Crossenny Church and where Sydenham was...
(1768–1819) Sarah DrakeSarah DrakeSarah Ann Drake was an English botanical illustrator.Born in 1803, she came from the same area of Norfolk as John Lindley, and in 1830 moved into the Lindley home in London...
(1803–1857) John Bellenden Ker GawlerJohn Bellenden Ker GawlerJohn Bellenden Ker, originally John Gawler was an English botanist born about 1764 in Ramridge, Andover, Hampshire and died in June 1842 in the same town. On 5 November 1804 he changed his name to Ker Bellenden, but continued to sign his name as Bellenden Ker until his death...
(c1764) John LindleyJohn LindleyJohn Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
(1799–1865) - 1817 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Groups of flowers George BrookshawGeorge BrookshawGeorge Brookshaw , also known as G. Brown, was a notable English painter and illustrator from London. Much of his work has been digitized....
(1751–1823) - 1817 NurembergNurembergNuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
Deutschlands Flora In Abbildungen Joseph Sturm (1771–1848) - 1817-18 Philadelphia Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States William Paul Crillon Barton (1786–1856)
- 1817-19 Philadelphia The North American Sylva François André MichauxFrançois André MichauxFrançois André Michaux was a French botanist, son of André Michaux. He accompanied his father to the United States, and his Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale contains the results of his explorations and gives an account of the distribution and the scientific...
(1770–1855) - 1817-20 BostonBostonBoston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
American Medical Botany Jacob BigelowJacob BigelowJacob Bigelow was an American medical doctor, botanist, and architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.-Biography:...
(1787–1879) - 1818 Muscologia William Jackson HookerWilliam Jackson HookerSir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...
(1786–1865) Thomas TaylorThomas Taylor (botanist)- Life :Thomas Taylor, born in the East Indies, was the eldest son of Joseph Irwin Taylor, colonel in the East Indian army. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating B.A. in 1807, and M.B. and M.D. in 1814... - 1818-20 Musci exotici William Jackson HookerWilliam Jackson HookerSir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...
(1786–1865) - 1818-22 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Histoire Naturelle des Orangers Antoine RissoAntoine RissoGiuseppe Antonio Risso , called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard naturalist.Risso was born in Nice, County of Nice, a part of the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published , and . Risso's dolphin was named after him...
(1777–1845) Pierre Antoine PoiteauPierre Antoine Poiteau-Biography:He was born in Ambleny, France. After having worked in kitchen gardens and for the Parisian market gardeners, he was appointed by André Thouin garçon jardinier in 1790 at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris...
(1766–1854) - 1819 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
The North American Sylva François André MichauxFrançois André MichauxFrançois André Michaux was a French botanist, son of André Michaux. He accompanied his father to the United States, and his Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale contains the results of his explorations and gives an account of the distribution and the scientific...
(1770–1855) - 1819-23 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
William Farquhar Collection of Natural History DrawingsWilliam Farquhar Collection of Natural History DrawingsThe William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar...
William FarquharWilliam FarquharMajor-General William Farquhar was an employee of the East India Company, and the first Resident of colonial Singapore.-Early life:Farquhar was born at Newhall, Aberdeenshire, near Aberdeen in 1774, and joined the East India Company as a cadet when he was 17...
(1774 – 1839) - 1821-23 Philadelphia A Flora of North America William Paul Crillon Barton (1786–1856)
- 1821-26 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Collectanea botanica or Figures and botanical illustrations of rare and curious exotic plants John LindleyJohn LindleyJohn Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
(1799–1865) - 1823-32 Nova Genera et Species Plantarum Brasiliensium Carl Friedrich Philipp von MartiusCarl Friedrich Philipp von MartiusCarl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
(1794–1868) - 1823-50 LeipzigLeipzigLeipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
Historia naturalis palmarumHistoria naturalis palmarumHistoria naturalis palmarum: opus tripartitum is a highly illustrated, three-volume botanical book of palms by German botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. The work is in Latin and was published in imperial folio format in Leipzig by T.O. Weigel, volume one in 1823 and the final volume in...
Carl Friedrich Philipp von MartiusCarl Friedrich Philipp von MartiusCarl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
(1794–1868) - 1824-39 Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni VegetabilisProdromus Systematis Naturalis Regni VegetabilisProdromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, also known by its standard botanical abbreviation Prodr. , is a 17-volume treatise on botany initiated by A. P. de Candolle. De Candolle intended it as a summary of all known seed plants, encompassing taxonomy, ecology, evolution and biogeography....
A. P. de CandolleA. P. de CandolleAugustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at an herbarium...
(1778–1841) - 1825 Philadelphia Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States William Paul Crillon Barton (1786–1856)
- 1826 West ChesterWest Chester, PennsylvaniaThe Borough of West Chester is the county seat of Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 18,461 at the 2010 census.Valley Forge, the Brandywine Battlefield, Longwood Gardens, Marsh Creek State Park, and other historical attractions are near West Chester...
Florula Cestrica William DarlingtonWilliam DarlingtonWilliam Darlington was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.William Darlington was born in Birmingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He attended Friends School at Birmingham and spent his youth on a farm...
(1782–1863) - 1827 Icones selectae Plantarum Cryptogamicarum Brasiliensium Carl Friedrich Philipp von MartiusCarl Friedrich Philipp von MartiusCarl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
(1794–1868) - 1827-33 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Choix Des Plus Belles Fleurs Pierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph RedoutéPierre-Joseph Redouté , was a Belgian painter and botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He was nicknamed "The Raphael of flowers"....
(1759–1840) - 1828 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
The Pomological Magazine John LindleyJohn LindleyJohn Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
(1799–1865) - 1829-40 Flora boreali-americana William Jackson HookerWilliam Jackson HookerSir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...
(1785–1865) David DouglasDavid DouglasDavid Douglas was a Scottish botanist. He worked as a gardener, and explored the Scottish Highlands, North America, and Hawaii, where he died.-Early life:...
(1799–1834) John Richardson (naturalist)John Richardson (naturalist)Sir John Richardson was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of...
(1787–1865) - 1831 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Illustrations and Descriptions of Camellieæ William Chandler Booth (1804–1874) Alfred Chandler (1804–1896) S.Watts WeddellWeddellWeddell is a surname, and may refer to:*Alan Weddell , American college football coach*Alexander W. Weddell , American diplomat; ambassador to Argentina and Spain*Hugh Algernon Weddell , English botanist... - 1831–34 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
A selection of hexandrian plants, belonging to the natural orders Amaryllidae and Liliacae Priscilla Susan Falkner Bury (1793–1869) - 1832 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
A Description of the Genus Pinus Aylmer Bourke LambertAylmer Bourke LambertAylmer Bourke Lambert was a British botanist, one of the first fellows of the Linnean Society.He is best known for his work A description of the genus Pinus, issued in several parts 1803-1824, a sumptuously illustrated folio volume detailing all of the conifers then known...
(1761–1842) - 1832-43 OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
British Phaenogamous BotanyBritish Phaenogamous BotanyBritish Phaenogamous Botany are figures and descriptions of British flowering plants compiled by the botanist William Baxter.The 6 volumes were published in Oxford by J.H. Parker between 1832 and 1843. The 509 hand-coloured copper engraved plates were accompanied by botanical descriptions in 8vo...
William BaxterWilliam Baxter (botanist)William Baxter was an English gardener who collected in Australia on behalf of English nurserymen and private individuals. He had developed his horticultural reputation as gardener to the Comtesse de Vandes in Bayswater, London, many of the plants he had nurtured being used for illustrations in...
J.H. Parker WhittakerWhittakerWhittaker is a surname and given name, and may refer to:As a surname* Aaron Whittaker, New Zealand rugby player* Bill Whittaker, English footballer* Bill Whittaker , New Zealand lawn bowler* Bob Whittaker U.S. Congressman...
TreacherTreacherTreacher is an English surname; notable Treachers include:*Arthur Treacher *Bill Treacher *Jamie Treacher *John Treacher *William Hood Treacher Other uses:*Arthur Treacher's seafood restaurant... - 1833-38 BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
l’Horticulteur belge Louis van HoutteLouis van HoutteLouis Benoit van Houtte was a Belgian horticulturist who was with the Jardin Botanique de Brussels between 1836 and 1838 and is best-known for the journal Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, produced with Charles Lemaire and M...
Charles François Antoine MorrenCharles François Antoine MorrenCharles François Antoine Morren , was a Belgian botanist and horticulturist, and Director of the Jardin botanique de l’Université de Liège....
Pierre Auguste Joseph DrapiezPierre Auguste Joseph DrapiezPierre Auguste Joseph Drapiez was a Belgian naturalist.He founded with the French botanist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent and the Belgian chemist Jean-Baptiste Van Mons the Annales générales de Sciences physiques consacrées aux Sciences naturelles published in six volumes between 1819 and...
Michael Josef Francois Scheidweiler - 1836 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
TurinTurinTurin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
Histoire naturelle, agricole et economique du maïs Matthieu Bonafous (1793–1852) - 1836 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
The romance of nature or, the flower-seasons illustrated Louisa Anne Twamley MeredithLouisa Anne MeredithLouisa Anne Meredith , also known as Louisa Anne Twamley, was an Anglo/Australian writer and illustrator.-Biography:...
(1812–1895) - 1836-76 Icones PlantarumIcones PlantarumIcones Plantarum is an extensive series of published volumes of botanical illustration, initiated by Sir William Jackson Hooker. The Latin name of the work means "Illustrations of Plants". The illustrations are drawn from herbarium specimens of Hooker's herbarium, and subsequently the herbarium of...
William Jackson HookerWilliam Jackson HookerSir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...
(1785–1865) Walter Hood FitchWalter Hood FitchWalter Hood Fitch was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications...
(1817–1892) - 1837-8 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Sertum Orchidaceum John LindleyJohn LindleyJohn Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
(1799–1865) Sarah DrakeSarah DrakeSarah Ann Drake was an English botanical illustrator.Born in 1803, she came from the same area of Norfolk as John Lindley, and in 1830 moved into the Lindley home in London...
(1803–1857) M. Gauci - 1837-41 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala James BatemanJames BatemanJames Bateman was a landowner and accomplished horticulturist. He developed Biddulph Grange after moving there around 1840, from nearby Knypersley Hall...
(1811–1897) Walter Hood FitchWalter Hood FitchWalter Hood Fitch was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications...
(1817–1892) Sarah DrakeSarah DrakeSarah Ann Drake was an English botanical illustrator.Born in 1803, she came from the same area of Norfolk as John Lindley, and in 1830 moved into the Lindley home in London...
(1803–1857) Mrs Withers M. Gauci - 1839 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Iconographie du genre Camellia Lorenzo BerlèseLorenzo BerlèseThe Abbe Berlèse was the greatest camellia scholar of the nineteenth century. He was born and died in Campolino, Italy. He was ordained priest in the Seminario Vescovile di Ceneda. He lived and worked for circa 40 years in Paris, where he had his own greenhouses...
(1784–1863) - 1840 Die Natzlichen Und Schadlichen Schwamme Harald Othmar Lenz (1799–1870)
- 1840 St. Petersburg Illustrationes algarum in itinere circa orbem jussu Imperatoris Nicolai I Alexander Philipov PostelsAlexander Philipov PostelsAlexander Filipov Postels , was a Russian naturalist, mineralogist and artist.Postels studied at St.Petersburg University and in 1826 lectured there on inorganic chemistry....
(1801–1871) Franz Joseph Ruprecht (1814–1870) - 1840-1906 Flora BrasiliensisFlora BrasiliensisFlora Brasiliensis is a book published between 1840 and 1906 by the editors Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, August Wilhelm Eichler, Ignatz Urban and many others...
Carl Friedrich Philipp von MartiusCarl Friedrich Philipp von MartiusCarl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...
(1794–1868) et al. - 1841-47 Iconographie descriptive des cactees Charles Antoine LemaireCharles Antoine LemaireCharles Antoine Lemaire , was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae....
Dumenil Maubert - 1843 A Flora of the State of New York John Torrey
- 1843 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Paxton's magazine of botany Joseph PaxtonJoseph PaxtonSir Joseph Paxton was an English gardener and architect, best known for designing The Crystal Palace.-Early life:...
(1803–1865) - 1843-46 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Flore d’Amérique dessinée d’après nature sur les lieux Etienne Denisse (fl.FloruitFloruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
1814-1845) - 1844-73 Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni VegetabilisProdromus Systematis Naturalis Regni VegetabilisProdromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, also known by its standard botanical abbreviation Prodr. , is a 17-volume treatise on botany initiated by A. P. de Candolle. De Candolle intended it as a summary of all known seed plants, encompassing taxonomy, ecology, evolution and biogeography....
Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle (1805–1893) - 1845-83 GhentGhentGhent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
Flore des Serre Louis van HoutteLouis van HoutteLouis Benoit van Houtte was a Belgian horticulturist who was with the Jardin Botanique de Brussels between 1836 and 1838 and is best-known for the journal Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, produced with Charles Lemaire and M...
(1810–1876) Charles Antoine LemaireCharles Antoine LemaireCharles Antoine Lemaire , was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae....
(1800–1871) Michael Josef Francois Scheidweiler (1799–1861) - 1849 New YorkNew YorkNew York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
A Forget-Me-Not. Flowers from nature Clarissa W. Munger Badger - 1849 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Histoire Naturelle des quinquinas, ou monograph du genre Cinchona Hugh Algernon WeddellHugh Algernon WeddellHugh Algernon Weddell was a physician and botanist, specialising in South American flora.Weddell was born at Birches House, Painswick near Gloucester, England but was raised in France and educated at the Lycée Henri IV, where he received a medical degree in 1841...
(1819–1877) - 1849-51The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya Joseph Dalton HookerJoseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
(1817–1911) Walter Hood FitchWalter Hood FitchWalter Hood Fitch was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications...
(1817–1892) - 1850-52 BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
Album de pomologie Alexandre Joseph Désiré Bivort (1809–1872) - 1850-52 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Paxton’s Flower Garden John LindleyJohn LindleyJohn Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
(1799–1865) Joseph PaxtonJoseph PaxtonSir Joseph Paxton was an English gardener and architect, best known for designing The Crystal Palace.-Early life:...
(1803–1865) - 1851 A Century of Orchidaceous Plants William Jackson HookerWilliam Jackson HookerSir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...
(1785–1865) Walter Hood FitchWalter Hood FitchWalter Hood Fitch was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications...
(1817–1892) - 1851 PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
Beschreibung und Cultur Orchideen F Josst - 1853 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Gramineae Chilenses Émile Desvaux - 1853 ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
Pflanzen Blumen und Blätter Alois AuerAlois AuerAlois Auer, born 1813 in Wels, Austria, died 11 June 1869; was a printer, inventor and botanical illustrator, most active during the 1840s and 1850s. He produced a number of works in German and other languages, including the first regarding the nature printing process. He was the director of the...
(fl. 1840s-1850s) - 1853-60 Annales de Pomologie Belge et étrangère Alexandre Joseph Désiré Bivort (1809–1872) Séraph Bavay
- 1854 AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
Handboek tot de Kennis, Voortkweeking van Cactus-soorten J. J. Krook - 1854-60 Pescatorea Jean Jules LindenJean Jules LindenJean Jules Linden , was a Belgian botanist and explorer, horticulturist and businessman, specialising in orchids, on which subject he wrote a number of books....
(1817–1898) François De Tollenaere Maubert - 1854-96 BelgiumBelgiumBelgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
L'Illustration Horticole Journal Special Des Serre et Des Jardins Charles Antoine LemaireCharles Antoine LemaireCharles Antoine Lemaire , was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae....
(1800–1871) Jean Jules LindenJean Jules LindenJean Jules Linden , was a Belgian botanist and explorer, horticulturist and businessman, specialising in orchids, on which subject he wrote a number of books....
(1817–1898) Verschaffelt - 1855 Illustrations of Himalayan Plants Joseph Dalton HookerJoseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
(1817–1911) Walter Hood FitchWalter Hood FitchWalter Hood Fitch was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications...
(1817–1892) - 1855-57 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Chloris andina : essai d'une flore de la région alpine des Cordillères de l'Amérique du Sud Hugh Algernon WeddellHugh Algernon WeddellHugh Algernon Weddell was a physician and botanist, specialising in South American flora.Weddell was born at Birches House, Painswick near Gloucester, England but was raised in France and educated at the Lycée Henri IV, where he received a medical degree in 1841...
(1819–1877) - 1855-56 Physiotypia Plantarum Austriacarum der Naturselbstdruck Constantin von EttingshausenConstantin von EttingshausenConstantin Freiherr von Ettingshausen was an Austrian geologist and botanist....
(1826–1897) - 1857 The Ferns of Great Britain and IrelandThe Ferns of Great Britain and IrelandThe Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland was a book published in 1855 that featured 51 plates of nature printing by Henry Bradbury.-Description:The text was a scientific description of all the varieties of Ferns found in the British Isles...
Thomas MooreThomas MooreThomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death...
Henry BradburyHenry BradburyHenry Bradbury is best known for his book The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland with author Thomas Moore and editor John Lindley published in 1855 and using the new technique of nature printing invented by Alois Auer and Andreas Worring in 1852 and improved by Bradbury...
(1831–1860) - 1858 Leiden Florae Javae et insularum adjacentium nova series Carl Ludwig BlumeCarl Ludwig BlumeCharles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...
(1796–1862) - 1858-1900 LeipzigLeipzigLeipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
Xenia Orchidacea. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Orchideen Heinrich Gustav ReichenbachHeinrich Gustav ReichenbachHeinrich Gustav Reichenbach was an ornithologist, botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century...
(1823–1889) Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig KraenzlinFriedrich Wilhelm Ludwig KraenzlinFriedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin In the history of the European study of South African orchids, Fritz Kränzlin appears after Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach describing many new orchids in the region, and revising some of the genera...
(1847–1934) - 1859 Dublin Thesaurus Capensis or Illustrations of the South African Flora William Henry HarveyWilliam Henry HarveyWilliam Henry Harvey was an Irish botanist who specialised in algae.- Biography :William Henry Harvey was born at Summerville near Limerick, Ireland, in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. His father Joseph Massey Harvey, was a Quaker and prominent merchant...
(1811–1866) - 1859 NiceNiceNice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
Les Champignons De La Province De Nice Jean Baptiste Barla (1817–1896) - 1859-60 The Nature-printed British Sea-weeds Henry BradburyHenry BradburyHenry Bradbury is best known for his book The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland with author Thomas Moore and editor John Lindley published in 1855 and using the new technique of nature printing invented by Alois Auer and Andreas Worring in 1852 and improved by Bradbury...
(1831–1860) - 1859-60 Hortus Lindenianus Jean Jules LindenJean Jules LindenJean Jules Linden , was a Belgian botanist and explorer, horticulturist and businessman, specialising in orchids, on which subject he wrote a number of books....
(1817–1898) - 1859 Nature-Printed British Ferns Henry BradburyHenry BradburyHenry Bradbury is best known for his book The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland with author Thomas Moore and editor John Lindley published in 1855 and using the new technique of nature printing invented by Alois Auer and Andreas Worring in 1852 and improved by Bradbury...
(1831–1860) - 1860 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Outlines Of British Fungology Miles Joseph BerkeleyMiles Joseph BerkeleyMiles Joseph Berkeley was an English cryptogamist and clergyman, and one of the founders of the science of plant pathology....
(1803–1889) - 1862-65-91 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Select Orchidaceous Plants Robert Warner (botanist) (1814–1896) Benjamin Samuel WilliamsBenjamin Samuel WilliamsBenjamin Samuel Williams , English orchidologist and nurseryman in London, known mainly for his horticultural notes on orchids in publications such as The Orchid Grower's Manual , Select Orchidaceous Plants and The Orchid Album .Williams started as a gardener to Robert Warner, the botanist, at...
(1824–1890) Walter Hood FitchWalter Hood FitchWalter Hood Fitch was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications...
(1817–1892) James AndrewsJames Andrews (botanical artist)James Andrews was an English botanical artist noted for his accomplished illustrations. He also taught flower-painting to young ladies.He created the illustrations for the famous nature writer Sarah Bowdich Lee's 1854 book Trees, Plants, and Flowers: Therir Beauties, Uses, and Influences.-... - 1863 ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
Beiträge zur Morphologie und Biologie der Familie der Orchideen JG Beer - 1863-1884 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Pinetum Britannicum Edward James RavenscroftEdward James RavenscroftEdward James Ravenscroft , was the author of The Pinetum Britannicum , a monumental 3-volume work, which describes and depicts exotic coniferous trees that were cultivated in Britain in the 19th century, when they were at the height of popularity.The work is illustrated with William Richardson’s...
(1816–1890) - 1864-74 A Monograph of Odontoglossum James BatemanJames BatemanJames Bateman was a landowner and accomplished horticulturist. He developed Biddulph Grange after moving there around 1840, from nearby Knypersley Hall...
Walter Hood FitchWalter Hood FitchWalter Hood Fitch was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications...
(1817–1892) - 1865 Handbook of the British Flora George BenthamGeorge BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
(1800–1884) William Jackson HookerWilliam Jackson HookerSir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...
(1786–1865) Walter Hood FitchWalter Hood FitchWalter Hood Fitch was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications...
(1817–1892) - 1866 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Icones Euphorbiarum ou figures de cent vingt-deux espèces du Genre Euphorbia Pierre Edmond BoissierPierre Edmond BoissierPierre Edmond Boissier was a Swiss botanist, explorer and mathematician.He was the son of Jacques Boissier and Lucile Butini , daughter of Pierre Butini a well-known physician and naturalist from Geneva...
(1810–1885) Jean Christoph Heyland (né Kumpfler) (1792–1866) - 1867 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
A Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants James BatemanJames BatemanJames Bateman was a landowner and accomplished horticulturist. He developed Biddulph Grange after moving there around 1840, from nearby Knypersley Hall...
(1811–1897) Walter Hood FitchWalter Hood FitchWalter Hood Fitch was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications...
(1817–1892) - 1868 NiceNiceNice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
Flore illustrée de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes JB Barla - 1871 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Handbook Of British Fungi Mordecai Cubitt CookeMordecai Cubitt CookeMordecai Cubitt Cooke was an English botanist and mycologist.Cooke came from a mercantile family in Horning, Norfolk, and worked as an apprentice to a fabric merchant before becoming a clerk in a law firm, but his chief interest was in botany. He founded the Society of Amateur Botanists in 1862...
(1825–1914) - 1871-1905 Leiden Musée botanique de Leide Willem Frederik Reinier Suringar (editor) A.J. Kouwels A.J. Wendel
- 1874 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
A monograph of Odontoglossum James BatemanJames BatemanJames Bateman was a landowner and accomplished horticulturist. He developed Biddulph Grange after moving there around 1840, from nearby Knypersley Hall...
(1811–1897) Walter Hood FitchWalter Hood FitchWalter Hood Fitch was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications...
(1817–1892) - 1875-94 SydneySydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
Australian Orchids Robert D. FitzGeraldRobert D. FitzgeraldRobert David FitzGerald was an Irish-Australian surveyor, ornithologist, botanist and poet...
(1830–1892) Charles Potter A.J.Stopps - 1877-80 Monograph of the Genus Lilium Henry John ElwesHenry John ElwesHenry John Elwes, FRS was a British botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, naturalist, collector and traveller who became renowned for collecting specimens of lilies during trips to the Himalayas and Korea. He was the first person to receive the Victoria Medal of the Royal Horticultural...
(1846–1922) Walter Hood FitchWalter Hood FitchWalter Hood Fitch was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications...
(1817–1892) - 1877-83 ManilaManilaManila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...
Flora de Filipinas Francisco Manuel BlancoFrancisco Manuel BlancoFrancisco Manuel Blanco was a Spanish friar and botanist.-Biography:He was a member of the Augustinian order. His first assignment was in Angat in the province of Bulacan in the Philippines. He subsequently had a variety different assignments...
(1778–1845), Lorenzo Guerrero, Regino Garcia y BasaRegino Garcia y BasaRegino Garcia y Basa was a Filipino artist, botanist and forester. He was also a printing instructor at the University of Santo Tomas and director of walks, gardens and parks for Manila...
, Fabian Domingo, C.Arguelles, J.Garcia, Rosendo Garcia, Felix MartinezFelix MartínezFélix Martínez Mata is a former Major League Baseball shortstop for the Kansas City Royals and Tampa Bay Devil Rays.-External links:... - 1880 ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
Les Orchidées. Histoire Iconographique ED de Puydt - 1880 BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de l'ille de Java Berthe Hoola van NootenBerthe Hoola van NootenBerthe Hoola van Nooten , was a Dutch botanical artist, noted for her botanical plates illustrating "Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de l'Ile de Java" in 1863-64.... - 1881-93 L'Orchidophile; Journal des Amateurs d'Orchidées A. Godefroy-Lebeuf Guillaume Severeyns F. Stroobant Jeanne Koch.
- 1882-83 BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
Deutsche Pomologie Wilhelm LaucheWilhelm LaucheWilhelm Lauche was a German gardener, dendrologist and pomologist.- Horticultural career :Lauche was the son of a palace gardener for the Count of Bernstorff in Gartow, and so early was familiar with the nursery... - 1882-97 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
The Orchid Album Robert Warner (botanist) Thomas MooreThomas MooreThomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death...
John Nugent FitchJohn Nugent FitchJohn Nugent Fitch , botanical illustrator and lithographer, best known for his contribution of 528 plates to The Orchid Album, a landmark work of eleven volumes published between 1872 and 1897. Fitch was the nephew of botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch .St Georg I. 1989 Botanical artists of New...
(1840–1927) Benjamin Samuel WilliamsBenjamin Samuel WilliamsBenjamin Samuel Williams , English orchidologist and nurseryman in London, known mainly for his horticultural notes on orchids in publications such as The Orchid Grower's Manual , Select Orchidaceous Plants and The Orchid Album .Williams started as a gardener to Robert Warner, the botanist, at...
(1824–1890) - 1885 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Orchids the Royal Family of Plants HS Miner - 1885-94 BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
Iconographie des Orchidées Jean Jules LindenJean Jules LindenJean Jules Linden , was a Belgian botanist and explorer, horticulturist and businessman, specialising in orchids, on which subject he wrote a number of books....
(1817–1898) Lucien Linden Em. Rodigas R. A. Rolfe - 1887-94 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
A Manual of Orchidaceous Plants Harry James VeitchHarry VeitchSir Harry James Veitch was an eminent English horticulturist in the nineteenth century, who was the head of the family nursery business, James Veitch & Sons, based in Chelsea, London...
(1840–1924) - 1888 ArgenteuilArgenteuilArgenteuil is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. Argenteuil is a sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise department, the seat of the arrondissement of Argenteuil....
Les Cypripediées A. Godefroy-Lebeuf and Brown - 1888-94 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Reichenbachia: Orchids Illustrated and DescribedReichenbachia: Orchids Illustrated and DescribedReichenbachia: Orchids Illustrated and Described is a four-volume 19th century text created by German-born orchidologist Frederick Sander which features life-size illustrations and descriptions of nearly two hundred orchids with text in English, French, and German...
Henry Frederick Conrad SanderHenry Frederick Conrad SanderHenry Frederick Conrad Sander was a German-born orchidologist and nurseryman who settled in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England and is noted for his monthly publication on orchids, Reichenbachia, named in honour of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach of Hamburg, the great orchidologist.In 1867 Sander...
(1847–1920) Henry George Moon (1857–1905) Walter Hood FitchWalter Hood FitchWalter Hood Fitch was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications...
(1817–1892) - 1890 StuttgartStuttgartStuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
Illustriertes Handbuch der Kakteenkunde Anton Daul - 1891 Washington Plates 1849-1859 to Accompany a Report on the Forest Trees of North America Asa GrayAsa Gray-References:*Asa Gray. Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936.*Asa Gray. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.*Asa Gray. Plant Sciences. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001....
(1810–1888) - 1893-1913 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum extra-tropicarum Harry BolusHarry BolusHarry Bolus was a South African botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist. He advanced botany in South Africa by establishing bursaries, founding the and bequeathing his library and a large part of his fortune to the South African College...
(1834–1911) - 1873-76 ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
Atlas der für den Weinbau Deutschlands und Österreichs Rudolf Goethe (1843–1911) - 1894 Aepfel und Birnen Rudolf Goethe (1843–1911) Hermann Degenkolb Reinhard Mertens
- 1894 BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
Les Orchidées Exotiques et leur culture en Europe Lucien Linden A Cogniaux G Grignan - 1894 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
The Orchid Grower's Manual Benjamin Samuel WilliamsBenjamin Samuel WilliamsBenjamin Samuel Williams , English orchidologist and nurseryman in London, known mainly for his horticultural notes on orchids in publications such as The Orchid Grower's Manual , Select Orchidaceous Plants and The Orchid Album .Williams started as a gardener to Robert Warner, the botanist, at...
(1824–1890) - 1895 BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
Handbuch der Tafeltraubenkultur Rudolf Goethe (1843–1911) Wilhelm LaucheWilhelm LaucheWilhelm Lauche was a German gardener, dendrologist and pomologist.- Horticultural career :Lauche was the son of a palace gardener for the Count of Bernstorff in Gartow, and so early was familiar with the nursery... - 1896 LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
The genus Masdevallia Florence H Woolward (1854–1936) Friedrich Carl Lehmann - 1897-98 Washington Student's Hand-Book Of Mushrooms Of America Edible And Poisonous Thomas Taylor (1820–1910)