Earlier this year, I browsed two books that were full of images of Abraham Lincoln. Photographic technology had progressed enough to leave us a relatively rich group of pictures; we can see him aging over time. There is some overlap in the two books but also unique images. I was surprised at how many of them seemed familiar; these might be some of the most reused images in the world! Both books are available from Internet Archive. (click on images to see a larger version)
L’art Vietnamien was written by Louis Bezacier, a French archaeologist and art historian. It was published in 1955.
As I browsed the book, I found myself wanting more illustrations; the ones that were there acted to stimulate my interest but not satisfy it. I also wondered how much of Vietnam’s art history was damaged or destroyed in the battles that followed. The author first began his work in Vietnam in 1935 and published for at least 20 years after that…but this book is the only one that is currently on Internet Archive.
W. Stevenson Smith’s The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt was published in 1958 and is available on Internet Archive. It has 192 black and white plates which are well worth browsing. There are familiar images of Egyptian artifacts/ruins, but the ones I enjoyed the most were either new-to-me or a different view of something familiar.
For example, the different perspective of the Ramses II statue and Tutankhamon’s chair and chariot drew my attention (click on the sample images to see a larger version).
Many statues and smaller items like axe heads were shown large enough to make out details. It is also evident that the author included images of artifacts from many museums.
The architecture of ancient Egyptian sites is shown at locations and via reconstructed versions (models and drawings).
Enjoying browsing the images that are grouped after the text of the book! Research and excavation continue in Egypt so keep in mind the vintage of this book.
Twenty more books were added to the botanical print collection in March – available for browsing on Internet Archive. The publication date range for this group is over 400 years: 1569 to 1993 with 4 volumes in the 1500s, 4 volumes in the 1600s, 4 in the 1700s, 1 in the 1800s, and 7 in the 1900s.
The whole list of 2,842 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The volumes are shown by centuries this month…making it a bit easier to compare the state of the art in botanical print making. Click on any sample images to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink to view the entire volume on Internet Archive. Enjoy the March 2024 eBotanical Prints!
The 1500s:
Florum, et coronarianum odoratarumque nonnullarum herbarum historia * Borcht, Petrus van de,; Dodoens, Rembert; Plantin, Christophe * sample image * 1569
Purgantium aliarumque eo facientium, tum et radicum, conuoluulorum ac deleteriarum herbarum historiae * Dodoens, Rembert; Plantin, Christophe * sample image * 1574
Caroli Clusii Atrebat Rariorum alioquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia * Christophorus Plantinus; Clusius, Carolus * sample image * 1576
Caroli Clusii Atrebatis Rariorum aliquot stirpium * Bejthe, Stephan.; Christophori Plantini.; Clusius, Carolus, * sample image * 1583
The 1600s:
Histoire des simples medicamens apportes de l'Amerique, desquels on se sert en la medecine * Colin, Anthoine; Pillehott, Iean; Monardes, Nicolas; Orta, Garcia de * sample image * 1619
Hortus Eystettensis * Besler, Basilius * sample image * 1640
Horti medici amstelodamensis rariorum tam Orientalis quam Occidentalis India * Commelin, Johannes; Blaeu, P. & J;Commelin, Caspar; Kiggelaer, Franz; Moninckx, Johan; Moninckx, Maria; Ruysch, Frederik,1638-1731; Someren, Abraham * sample image * 1697
Hortus Indicus Malabaricus V1 * Reede tot Drakestein, Hendrik van * sample image * 1678
More of this series in April. There are 12 volumes in all. The Wikipedia entry for Hortus Malabaricus says that “it is believed to be one of the earliest printed works on the flora of Asia and the tropics” and is a “cultural storehouse of the incidental sociological situation and social affinities carried by the flora of those times.”
The 1700s:
Hesperidum Norimbergensium, sive, De malorum citreorum, limonum, aurantiorumque * Volkamer, Johann Christoph; Brückmann, Franz Ernst et al * sample image * 1713
Praeludia botanica ad publicas plantarum exoticarum demonstrationes, dicta in horto medico * Commelin, Caspar * sample image * 1715
Herbarium amboinense V5 * Rumpf, Georg Eberhard; Fransicum Changuion * sample image * 1747
Herbarium amboinense V6 * Rumpf, Georg Eberhard; Fransicum Changuion * sample image * 1750
The 1800s:
Histoire particuliere des plantes Orchidees recueillies sur les trois iles australes d'Afrique * Du Petit-Thouars, Aubert Aubert * sample image * 1822
The 1900s:
Etudes et commentaires sur le code de L'Escluse * Clusius, Carolus; Istvanffy, Gyula * sample image * 1900
Studies in American plants, III * Gibson, Dorothy N. * sample image * 1972
Pteridophyta of Peru - Part I * Tryon, Rolla M.; Stozle, Robert G. * sample image * 1989
Pteridophyta of Peru - Part II * Tryon, Rolla M.; Stozle, Robert G. * sample image * 1989
Pteridophyta of Peru - Part IV * Tryon, Rolla M.; Stozle, Robert G. * sample image * 1991
Pteridophyta of Peru - Part III * Tryon, Rolla M.; Stozle, Robert G. * sample image * 1992
Pteridophyta of Peru - Part V * Tryon, Rolla M.; Stozle, Robert G. * sample image * 1993
This ‘book of the week’ post introduces a collection found on Internet Archive that features slideshow collections of art works from artists from around the world and different time periods. There is a lot to browse in this collection and I will probably feature it again from time to time since I enjoy the images and learning about the artists. I have chosen 5 for this first post…hopefully the sample images will provide enough of an incentive to take a look at these artists and the rest of the collection.
The 4 eBooks for this ‘books of the week’ post are from Canadian Arctic Producers Co-operative published in 1980 and include sculpture from Inuit artists in 1979-1980…grouped by village. I enjoyed the figures of the Arctic as a place and culture.
I found these 4 eBooks by accident but recently did a comprehensive search for the publisher and found a lot more books so there are more to browse – which I will do over the coming months! These books are a great way to become more familiar with modern Inuit art. There is a Wikipedia entry for the Co-op too.
Alexander Francis Lydon provided the illustrations for Francis Orpen Morris’ 6 volumes that document the great houses of Great Britain and Ireland as they were in 1880. Some of the houses were already old and the families were scrambling to maintain them. Others were benefiting from new wealth from industry or colonies either through marriage or new owners. These are easy books to browse!
A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. V1, V2, V3, V4, V5, V6
The books are interesting from several historical perspectives. Here are some thoughts these books prompted for me:
They show the publishing technology of the time to produce color illustrations. It was new and expensive…and the publisher folded not long after these books were published.
The weapons of war that would destroy buildings from the air in World War I and World War II had not been invented in 1880. The books include houses that had survived for years because the weapons of war were not sufficient to destroy them in an instant.
Transportation was improving (trains and canals) but travel was still relatively slow, so the wealthy required large county houses for guests that stayed awhile.
The industrial revolution was in full swing, but many wealthy families were still clinging to agricultural streams of income from their lands. Country houses were not just a place to live; they were also the center of the family enterprise.
Lyndon (the illustrator) was not credited on the cover page. Why? He had worked with Morris on several projects before so their collaboration must have been a profitable one for him. He was evidently a successful artist, illustrator and engraver that supported a family with his work.
The author of the text (Morris) was an Anglo-Irish clergyman that had broad interests. He published books about birds and insects and heritage buildings! He was active in the movement to protect birds from the plume trade. His occupation as a vicar must have allowed sufficient free time for him to indulge his wide-ranging interests….and enjoy his family (9 children). He lived a relatively long time (82 years old when he died) and must have enjoyed what he did.
Twenty more books were added to the botanical print collection in February – available for browsing on Internet Archive. There are 4 books about medicinal plants, and 2 about Yuccas…but all the books are worth browsing!
The publication date range for this group is over 400 years: 1532 to 1902 with 2 volumes in the 1500s, 4 in the 1700s, 13 in the 1800s, and 1 in the 1900s.
The whole list of 2,822 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the February 2024 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 February 2024 eBotanical Prints!
Flore forestiere illustree arbres et arbustes du centre de l'Europe * Kirkwan, C. de * sample image * 1872
Flore Medicale V1 * Chamberet, Jean Baptist Joseph Anne Cesar Tyrbas de; Chaumeton, Francois Pierre; Panckoucke, C. L. F.; Panckoucke, Ernestine; Poiret, Jean Louis Marie; Turpin, P. J. F. * sample image * 1833
Flore Medicale V2 * Chamberet, Jean Baptist Joseph Anne Cesar Tyrbas de; Chaumeton, Francois Pierre; Panckoucke, C. L. F.; Panckoucke, Ernestine; Poiret, Jean Louis Marie; Turpin, P. J. F. * sample image * 1829
Flore Medicale V3 * Chamberet, Jean Baptist Joseph Anne Cesar Tyrbas de; Chaumeton, Francois Pierre; Panckoucke, C. L. F.; Panckoucke, Ernestine; Poiret, Jean Louis Marie; Turpin, P. J. F. * sample image * 1830
Flore Medicale V4 * Chamberet, Jean Baptist Joseph Anne Cesar Tyrbas de; Chaumeton, Francois Pierre; Panckoucke, C. L. F.; Panckoucke, Ernestine; Poiret, Jean Louis Marie; Turpin, P. J. F. * sample image * 1830
Flore Medicale V5 * Chamberet, Jean Baptist Joseph Anne Cesar Tyrbas de; Chaumeton, Francois Pierre; Panckoucke, C. L. F.; Panckoucke, Ernestine; Poiret, Jean Louis Marie; Turpin, P. J. F. * sample image * 1831
Flore Medicale V6 * Chamberet, Jean Baptist Joseph Anne Cesar Tyrbas de; Chaumeton, Francois Pierre; Panckoucke, C. L. F.; Panckoucke, Ernestine; Poiret, Jean Louis Marie; Turpin, P. J. F. * sample image * 1832
The yucceae * Trelease, William * sample image * 1902
Further studies of Yuccas and their pollination * Trelease, William * sample image * 1893
The species of Rumex occurring north of Mexico * Trelease, William * sample image * 1892
The species of Epilobium occurring north of Mexico * Trelease, William * sample image * 1891
Genera Aroidearum exposita * Schott, H.W. * sample image * 1858
Gesamtbeschreibung der Kakteen (Monographia cactacearum) * Schumann, Karl; Hischt, Karl * sample image * 1899
Gramineae Chilenses * Desvaux, E. * sample image * 1853
Herbarivm Oth. Brvnfelsii ... exacto tandem studio, opera & ingenio, candidatis medicinae simplicis absolutum * Brunfels, Otto * sample image * 1537
Herbarum vivae eicones ad naturae imitationem * Brunfels, Otto; Herr, Michael; Weiditz, Hans * sample image * 1532
Herbarium amboinense V1 * Rumpf, Georg Eberhard; Fransicum Changuion * sample image * 1742
Herbarium amboinense V2 * Rumpf, Georg Eberhard; Fransicum Changuion * sample image * 1741
Herbarium amboinense V3 * Rumpf, Georg Eberhard; Fransicum Changuion * sample image * 1743
Herbarium amboinense V4 * Rumpf, Georg Eberhard; Fransicum Changuion * sample image * 1743
Internet Archive has a Fine Art History collection that includes slideshows of works by many artists. I browsed the slideshow for photojournalist Marilyn Stafford after reading about her death (at 97) last year. She photographed well-known people…fashion….people on the street…refugees – a wide range over a long life. She was born in Cleveland, OH but moved to Paris as a young girl then settled in London. She traveled the world – particularly Tunisia, India, and Lebanon. The slideshow is well worth the look. How many people do you recognize? Which photos are the most thought provoking?
I enjoyed browsing the illustrations of golf courses in Britain published in 1910 (available on Internet Archive). It was authored by Bernard Darwin and illustrated by Harry Rountree. According to Wikipedia, the author was the grandson of Charles Darwin; he was the first journalist to cover golf on a daily basis…and he was a high-standard amateur golfer too. The illustrator (according to Wikipedia) was born in New Zealand but moved to London to pursue his career as an illustrator in 1901; he became well know for animal illustration…and British golf courses/golfing caricatures. Enjoy browsing this ‘book of the week.’
I recently browsed Eva March Tappan books available on Internet Archive; she was a prolific author from the early 1900s. According to the Wikipedia, she graduated from Vassar in 1875 and taught for many years before embarking on her writing career – writing primarily for children. Enjoy these books (including their illustrations) this week!
The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art V3 - Egypt, Affrica and Arabia, 1914
The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art V4 - Greece and Rome, 1914
Liberty Hyde Bailey edited the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture from 1916-1919; the six volumes are available from Internet Archive. According to Wikipedia, he had retired from his career at Cornell (1988-1913) to become a private scholar. These volumes must have been one of his post-retirement projects. His daughter, Ethel Zoe Bailey, had graduated from Smith College in 1911 and evidently worked alongside her father on these volumes. His most significant and lasting contributions were in the botanical study of cultivated plants.
The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture Vol I
The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture Vol II
The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture Vol III
The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture Vol IV
I enjoyed the illustrations of familiar plants that were being grown in the early 1900s. Most of the illustrations are black and white photographs but I chose sample images from the few that were in color. The produce aisles of our grocery stores have a more limited selection!
The first decades of the 1900s were when a lot of Colleges of Agriculture were formed. Bailey formed Cornell’s College of Agriculture and secured public funding in 1904. Agriculture was rebuilding for the future – trying to get more production of fertile lands farmed, in many cases, by immigrants that had arrived in the prior 50 years. One side of my family tree arrived from Europe in the 1890s. They wouldn’t have seen these books, but they were assisted by the agricultural extension services, the 4-H movement, parcel post, and rural electrification that Bailey helped initiate.
Twenty-one more books were added to the botanical print collection in January – available for browsing on Internet Archive. I did my browsing while I was at home and had the luxury of my big monitors rather than just the laptop screen; they were part of my ‘back to normal’ activities.
The publication range for this group is skewed earlier than usual: 1763 to 1855 with 12 of the 21 books published before 1700.
The whole list of 2,802 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the January 2024 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 January 2024 eBotanical Prints!
Flora atlantica, sive, Historia plantarum quae in Atlante, agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt * Desfontaines, René Louiche; Redouté, Henri-Joseph; Redouté, Pierre Joseph * sample image * 1798
Recueil de planches de botanique de l'encyclopedie. * Audebert, J. B.; Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de; Redoute, Henri Joseph; Seve, Jacques Eustache de; Smith, John Donnell * sample image * 1823
Flora fluminensis * Senefelder, A.; Velloso, Jose Mariano da Conceicao * sample image * 1827
Flora's Dictionary * Wirt, E. W. * sample image * 1855
Florae Austriacae, sive, Plantarum selectarum in Austriae archiducatu V1 * Gerold, Josephi Michaelis; Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph; Kaliwoda, Leopoldi Johannis; Scheidl, Franz Anton V. * sample image * 1773
Florae Austriacae, sive, Plantarum selectarum in Austriae archiducatu V2 * Gerold, Josephi Michaelis; Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph; Kaliwoda, Leopoldi Johannis; Scheidl, Franz Anton V. * sample image * 1773
Florae Austriacae, sive, Plantarum selectarum in Austriae archiducatu V3 * Gerold, Josephi Michaelis; Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph; Kaliwoda, Leopoldi Johannis; Scheidl, Franz Anton V. * sample image * 1773
Florae Austriacae, sive, Plantarum selectarum in Austriae archiducatu V4 * Gerold, Josephi Michaelis; Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph; Kaliwoda, Leopoldi Johannis; Scheidl, Franz Anton V. * sample image * 1773
Florae Austriacae, sive, Plantarum selectarum in Austriae archiducatu V5 * Gerold, Josephi Michaelis; Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph; Kaliwoda, Leopoldi Johannis; Scheidl, Franz Anton V. * sample image * 1773
Icones plantarum rariorum V1 * Jacquin, Nicolao Josepho * sample image * 1781
Icones plantarum rariorum V2 * Jacquin, Nicolao Josepho * sample image * 1781
Oxalis - Monographia iconibus illustrata * Jacquin, Nicolao Josepho * sample image * 1794
Miscellanea Austriaca ad botanicam, chemiam, et historiam naturalem spectantia * Jacquin, Nicolaus Joseph; Freiherr von * sample image * 1778
Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia * Jacquin, Nicolaus Joseph; Freiherr von * sample image * 1763
Nicolai Josephi Jacquin collectaneorum supplementum * Jacquin, Nicolaus Joseph; Freiherr von * sample image * 1796
Florae Senegambiae tentamen,seu, Historia plantarum in diversis Senegambiae regionibus a peregrinatoribus Perrottet et Leprieur detectarum * Guillemin, J. A.; Perrottet, G. S.; Richard, Achille * sample image * 1830
Flore d'Egypte, explanation des planches (plates) * Raffeneau-Delile, Alire * sample image * 1813
Flora Antillarum V1 * Tussac, Fr. Richard de * sample image * 1808
Flora Antillarum V2 * Tussac, Fr. Richard de * sample image * 1818
Flora Antillarum V3 * Tussac, Fr. Richard de * sample image * 1824
Flora Antillarum V4 * Tussac, Fr. Richard de * sample image * 1827
Internet Archive has 3 books by Eloise Byington published by Albert Whitman & Company in Chicago around 1930. I couldn’t find anything about the author or the illustrators (Kathleen Stowell Frantz and Marguerite Jones); the copyright was by Albert Whitman & Co. so perhaps their work was contracted/paid by the publisher.
Mother Goose fun, more stories in rhyme(1931)
The wishbone children(1934)
The Pancake Brownies (1928)
The books captured my attention simply because of when they were published. My parents were both born in 1931 and as I browsed these books (particularly the illustrations), I thought about whether they would have ever seen these books in elementary school. Did their school have a library of children’s books that supplemented the books used in the classroom? I’ll have to ask my mother….see if she remembers.
I recently happened upon an article in The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 75 published in 2003 about two Chinese bridges. One was built in 1594 and the other in 1640. Both still fulfil their original function.
Bridges somehow draw my attention.
Perhaps because they represent people working together on a project that required combined talents and skills…as physical manifestation of the level of communication humans are capable of.
Perhaps because their continued existence indicates that relationships have been sustained since bridges are often the first to be destroyed in war. Since these bridges are 100s of years old that is significant.
Perhaps the artistry of the construction – the arches – over water (or low places) is their appeal.
Whatever it is – enjoy this week’s eBook pick for this article and others in the same volume. Quite of few issues of this periodical are also available on Internet Archive.
A book for children published in 1927…
Rhymes and verses by Clara J. Denton and illustrations by Garnett Cheney, published by Albert Whitman & Co. in Chicago.
I enjoyed the illustrations…thinking about how books for children have changed over the years. The different clothes in the depictions of the children are a sign that these are from an old book, but they still are charming hints at a commonality among childish interests that continue.
Available from Internet Archive.
Twenty more books were added to the botanical print collection in December– available for browsing on Internet Archive. They were almost the only books I read/browsed in December; I was overwhelmingly busy caring for my parents.
The publication range for this group is 1629-1959 – a lot has changed in those 300 years!
The whole list of 2,781 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the December 2023 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 December 2023 eBotanical Prints!
Niger flora; or an enumeration of the plants of Western tropical Africa * Hooker, William Jackson (editor) * sample image * 1849
Bouquet de Melastomataceae Bresilieannes * Cogniaux, Alfred; Saldanha del Gama, Jose * sample image * 1887
Bryologia javanica V1 * Dozy, Francois; Molkenboer, Julian Hendrik; Bosch, Roelof Benjamin Van Den; Sande Lacoste, Cornelius Marinus van der * sample image * 1855
Bryologia javanica V2 * Dozy, Francois; Molkenboer, Julian Hendrik; Bosch, Roelof Benjamin Van Den; Sande Lacoste, Cornelius Marinus van der * sample image * 1855
Chung-kuo chu yao chih wu tʻu shuo.ho bien Nan-ching ta hsüeh, Shêng wu hsüeh hsi [ho] Chung-kuo kʻo hsüeh yüan, Chih wu yen chiu so. * Keng, I-li * sample image * 1959
Collection d'orchide - esaquarelles originales. * Missouri Botanical Garden * sample image * 1900
Contribuciones al conocimiento de la flora ecuatoriana * Sodiro, L. * sample image * 1905
Das entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung der Blumen * Sprengel, Christian Konrad * sample image * 1793
De plantis exoticis libri duo * Alpini, Alpino; Alpini, Prosperi * sample image * 1629
Descriptio?n de l'Egypte recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte pendant l'expedition de l'armee francaise * Raffeneau-Delile, Alire * sample image * 1824
Description des plantes de l'Amerique * Plumier, Charles * sample image * 1693
Descriptionum et iconum rariores et pro maxima parte novas plantas illustrantium * Rottboll * sample image * 1773
Die Coniferen * Antoine, Franz * sample image * 1840
Phyto-iconographie der Bromeliaceen des kaiserlichen königlichen Hofburg-Gartens in Wien * Antoine, Franz * sample image * 1884
Die Flora der deutschen Schutzgebiete in der Sudsee * Lauterbach, Karl; Schumann, Karl Moritz * sample image * 1900
Nachtrage zur Flora der deutschen Schutzgebiete in der Sudsee * Lauterbach, Karl; Schumann, Karl Moritz * sample image * 1905
Die pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas und der nachbargebiete * Engler, Adolf * sample image * 1895
Flora Brasiliae meridionalis * Saint-Hilaire, Auguste de * sample image * 1825
Flora Java - Volume 2 * Blume, Carolo Ludovico * sample image * 1828
Flora Peruviana, et Chilensis Plates 1-152 * Ruiz, Hippolito; Pavon, Jose * sample image * 1798
William Edgar Geil is believed to be the first American to have traveled the entire length of the 2,500-kilometer-long Ming section of the Great Wall of China. The book he published about that adventure was published shortly afterward in 1909 and is available on Internet Archive. It is illustrated with photographs taken by the author…documenting the wall as it existed at the time.
So much has happened in China over the intervening years…and the Great Wall seems to be something that is simply ‘always there.’ I remember two stories about it recently that reminded me that the wall is changing too: it was breached with construction equipment and a study that showed that the encrustations (lichen, moss, cyanobacteria) actually slow down erosion of the wall.
This week’s collection of books from Internet Archive are from The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm. The first two are books published in the 1960s. The rest are bulletins from 1929 to 2003. So many things to browse! I primarily looked at the images but some of the articles caught my attention as well. These volumes are a mix of history and art….from a part of the world I have never visited…but enjoy from afar. Enjoy the sample images from each volume!
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 01
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 02
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 03
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 04
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 05
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 06
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 07
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 08
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 09
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 10
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 11
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 12
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 13
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 14
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 15
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 16
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 17
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 18
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 19
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 20
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 21
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 22
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 23
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 24
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 25
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 26
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 27
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 28
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 29
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 30
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 31
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 32
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 33
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 34
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 35
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 36
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 37
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 38
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 39
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 40
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 41
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 42
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 43
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 44
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 45
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 46
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 47
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 49
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 50
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 53
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 54
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 55
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 56
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 57
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 58
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 60
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 61
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 62
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 63
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 64
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 67
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 68
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 70
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 71
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities - Bulletin 72
Twenty-four more books were added to the botanical print collection in November – available for browsing on Internet Archive. More than half the publications this month contain color images; I’m always pleased when I find new-to-me botanical books with images like these.
The publication range for this group is 1727-2012; it is interesting the think about how the technology behind publication of books such as these changes over that 200+ years.
The whole list of 2,761 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the November 2023 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 November 2023 eBotanical Prints!
Medical botany; or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias: Comprising a poular and scientific account of poisonous vegetables indigenous to Great Britain V1 * Stephenson, John; Churchill, James Morss; Burnett, Gilbert Thomas * sample image * 1834
Medical botany; or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias: Comprising a poular and scientific account of poisonous vegetables indigenous to Great Britain V2 * Stephenson, John; Churchill, James Morss; Burnett, Gilbert Thomas * sample image * 1834
Medical botany; or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias: Comprising a poular and scientific account of poisonous vegetables indigenous to Great Britain V3 * Stephenson, John; Churchill, James Morss; Burnett, Gilbert Thomas * sample image * 1834
Medical botany; or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias: Comprising a poular and scientific account of poisonous vegetables indigenous to Great Britain V4 * Stephenson, John; Churchill, James Morss; Burnett, Gilbert Thomas * sample image * 1834
Flora and pomona, or, the British fruit and flower garden * McIntosh, Charles * sample image * 1829
On buds and Stipules * Lubbock, John * sample image * 1899
George Engelmann :botanical notebook 38 : Yucca (Agavaceae) * Engelmann, George * sample image * 1851
On Welwitschia :a new genus of Gnetaceae * Hooker, Joseph Dalton * sample image * 1864
Annales Musei botanici lugduno-batavi V1 (1863) * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm (editor) * sample image * 1863
Annales Musei botanici lugduno-batavi V2 (1866) * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm (editor) * sample image * 1866
Annales Musei botanici lugduno-batavi V3 (1867) * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm (editor) * sample image * 1867
Annales Musei botanici lugduno-batavi V4 (1869) * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm (editor) * sample image * 1869
Cycadeae quaedam americanae, partim novae * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm * sample image * 1851
Monographia cycadearum * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm * sample image * 1842
Monographia generis Melocacti * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm * sample image * 1840
Stirpes Surinamenses selectae * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm (compiler) * sample image * 1851
Botanicon parisiense * Aubriet, Claude; Boerhaave, Herman; Vaillant, Sebastien; Verbeek, H.; Verbeek, J.; Wandelaar, Jan * sample image * 1727
Botanical review, or the beauties of flora * Donovan, E. * sample image * 1790
Botanical Report * Eduran, Elias; Hilgard, Theod. C. * sample image * 1855
Astragalogia, nempe astragali, biserrulae et oxytropidis * Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de; Didot,; Garnery, Joann. Bapt.; Redoute, Pierre Joseph * sample image * 1802
Botanique (atlas from Astolabe Expdeition 1837-1840) * Hombron, Jacques Bernard; Decaisne, Joseph; Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César; Jacquinot, Charles Hector; Montagne, Jean François Camille * sample image * 1845
Text-book of structural and physiological botany * Thome, Otto Wilhelm; Bennett, Alfred William * sample image * 1877
Khawa karpo :Tibetan traditional knowledge and biodiversity conservation * Moseley, Robert K.; Salick, Jan * sample image * 2012
Advances in legume biology * Stirton, C.H.; Zarucchi, Jame Lee * sample image * 1989
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