eBotanical Prints – May 2022

The 20 botanical books in May included 4 series:

  • Oakes Ames’ orchids (continued from April) from the early 1900s

  • Flora of the Lesser Antilles from the 1970s and 1980s

  • 2 issues of a magazine about rural art and taste from the 1800s

There were also two themes:

  • Pines

  • Oaks

The whole list of 2,390 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the May 2022 books with links to the volumes and sample images is at the bottom of this post.

Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the May eBotanical Prints!

Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae - fascicle 3 * Ames, Oakes * sample image * 1908

Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae - fascicle 4 * Ames, Oakes * sample image * 1910

Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae - fascicle 6 * Ames, Oakes * sample image * 1920

Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae - fascicle 7 * Ames, Oakes * sample image * 1920

Flora of the Lesser Antilles : Leeward and Windward Islands V1 - Orchidaceae * Howard, Richard A.; Garay, Lesley A.; Sweet; Herman R. * sample image * 1974

Flora of the Lesser Antilles : Leeward and Windward Islands V2 - Pteridophyta * Howard, Richard A.; Proctor, George R.  * sample image * 1977

Flora of the Lesser Antilles : Leeward and Windward Islands V3 - Monocotyledoneae * Howard, Richard A.; Gould, Frank W.; Koyama, Tetsuo; Maas, Paul J. M.; Read, Robert W.; Thompson-Mills, Brooke (editor) * sample image * 1979

Flora of the Lesser Antilles : Leeward and Windward Islands V4 - Dicotyledoneae (1) * Howard, Richard A.; Kellogg, Elizabeth S.; Staples, George W.; Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan; Anderson, William R.; Plowman, Timothy * sample image * 1988

Flora of the Lesser Antilles : Leeward and Windward Islands V5 - Dicotyledoneae (2) * Howard, Richard A.; Bornstein, Allan J.  * sample image * 1988

Flora of the Lesser Antilles : Leeward and Windward Islands V6 - Dicotyledoneae (3) * Howard, Richard A. * sample image * 1989

The Complete Library of the Garden, V 3 * Bloom, Alan * sample image * 1963

The family herbal * Hill, John * sample image * 1812

How to find and name wild flowers being a new method of observing and identifying upwards of 1,200 species of flowering plants in the British isles * Fox, Thomas * sample image * 1906

The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste V28, 1873 * Williams, Henry T. * sample image * 1873

The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste V29, 1874 * Williams, Henry T. * sample image * 1874

The Pines of Mexico * Shaw, George Russell * sample image * 1909

The Genus Pinus * Shaw, George Russell * sample image * 1914

Historic American Trees * Nicholson, Katharine Stanley * sample image * 1922

British oak galls * Connold, Edward T.  * sample image * 1908

The oak : a popular introduction to forest botany * Ward, Harry Marshall * sample image * 1892