#botany book illustration

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Ethel Franklin Betts (American,1880–1956) • Little Johnts's Christmas • Illustration to While the Heart Beats Young by James Whitcomb Riley • Bobbs Merril Co. • 1906

[curiouscatalog]

Gorgeous orchids!

Miner, Harriet Stewart. Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1885.

SB409 .M66

[alrauna]

ToshiaSan | Art (@toshiasan)

[heaveninawildflower]

Snowy Plum. Hand-coloured plate taken from The Botanical Register by Sydenham Edwards.

Published 1815.

archive.org

[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 419 is our favorite herbal! It includes paintings of plants, some realist and some... not so realistic. It was written on paper in Italy, over the course of the 15th century. Watch closely and you may see someone you know! Find out more at the 🔗:

(I am trying some different video formats, trying to be a little more dynamic while still doing the page turning action. I'd love to know what you think! Happy new year and here's to 2024!)

[ellanmwebb2]

Flora of Middle-Earth.

Ella Webb

[muspeccoll]

It's dandelion season here in Columbia, and thanks to a visitor to our reading room, we found a beautiful dandelion in our copy of Leonhart Fuchs' De Historia Stirpium (1542). Dandelions are native to Eurasia and may have been brought to North America for medicinal purposes by early colonizers. VAULT OVR QK41 .F7 1542

[thebeautifulbook]

WILD FLOWERS OF KASHMIR, Series 1 by Coventry (1923)

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[arthistoryanimalia]

For #InternationalTigerDay 🐅 on #Caturday:

“Tigerlillia Terribilis” from Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany (1871–77)

[stone-cold-groove]

Your summer reading list: Natural History of Vacant Lots - 1987.

[typhlonectes]

Flora of greenhouses and gardens in Europe.

In Ghent: at Louis van Houtte, publisher, 1845–1880.

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Tyger Axia

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[sharkinabathtub]

A selection of illustrations from one of my (dead) grandpa’s old biology books. This one is “How to Know the Wild Flowers” by Mrs William Starr Dana, 1905. Illustrations by Marion Satterlee and Elsie Louise Shaw.

The black and white illustrations have MS, likely for Marion Satterlee. That suggests Elsie Louise Shaw probably did the color illustrations.

[vintagrafica]

Yellow Pitcher Plant or Sarracenia Flava

The yellow pitcherplant is a carnivorous plant in the family Sarraceniaceae. Its range extends from southern Alabama, through Florida and Georgia, to the coastal plains of southern Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

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[heaveninawildflower]

Pomegranate tree and borage taken from 'Compendium Salernitanum' (Italy, 1350-1375).

Morgan Library.

Wikimedia.

[upennmanuscripts]

Today's friend is LJS 46, an herbal written it Italy around 1520. The rather fantastical plants are typical for herbals written at this time. The herbal was later bound with a group of texts in English, Latin, and Spanish about Morocco less than a century later.

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