eBotanical Prints – February 2026

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Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in February – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive.   I continued working my way through the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters; there are 4 volumes per year so I only browsed late 1994 to 1999 in February; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in March.

I couldn’t resist 2 books I happened upon from the early 1800s by Elizabeth Warton….no photographs in those vintage books!

My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,303 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.

Click on any sample image from February’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.

Enjoy the February 2026 eBotanical Prints!

British Seaweeds * Warton, Elizabeth and Margaret * sample image * 1827

British Flowers * Warton, Elizabeth and Margaret * sample image * 1811

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.23:no.3 (1994)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1994

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.23:no.4 (1994)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1994

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.24:no.1 (1995)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1995

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.24:no.2 (1995)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1995

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.24:no.4 (1995)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1995

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.25:no.1 (1996)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1996

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.25:no.2 (1996)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1996

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.25:no.3 (1996)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1996

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.25:no.4 (1996)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1996

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.26:no.1 (1997)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1997

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.26:no.2 (1997)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1997

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.26:no.3 (1997)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1997

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.26:no.4 (1997)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1997

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.27:no.1 (1998)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1998

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.27:no.2 (1998)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1998

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.27:no.3 (1998)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1998

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.27:no.4 (1998)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1998

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.28:no.1 (1999)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1999

Life Magazine in 1946

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Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1946, I noticed a lot about veterans returning, application of technology from the war applied to civilian purposes, and tragedies of famine in places that World War II ravaged. There were hotel fires and flash floods…slums in cities – photography depicting the peace time news.

 (Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)

 Life Magazine 1946-01-07 - Veterans at College

Life Magazine 1946-01-14 - La Guardia waves farewell to New York’s City Hall

Life Magazine 1946-01-21 - Polio

Life Magazine 1946-01-28 - First family portrait (the Trumans)

Life Magazine 1946-02-04 - Marion Anderson records

Life Magazine 1946-02-11 - Coca Cola and returning veterans

Life Magazine 1946-02-18 - Candy is Dandy – Keep it Handy (Valentines)

Life Magazine 1946-02-25 - Pearl Harbor Committee Report

 Life Magazine 1946-03-04 - Modern kitchen

Life Magazine 1946-03-11 - Ritz crackers

Life Magazine 1946-03-18 - Eiffel tower

Life Magazine 1946-03-25 - Industrial destruction left my Russians in Manchuria

Life Magazine 1946-04-01 - Fuller House

Life Magazine 1946-04-08 - Slums of New York

Life Magazine 1946-04-15 - Hyde Park opened to public

Life Magazine 1946-04-22 - Planes in Arizona dessert

Life Magazine 1946-04-29 - Packed with good taste (ad for gum)

 Life Magazine 1946-05-06 - Ice cream dixie (cups of ice cream)

Life Magazine 1946-05-13 - China famine

Life Magazine 1946-05-20 - Robin nest at the White House

Life Magazine 1946-05-27 - Test rockets in New Mexico

Life Magazine 1946-06-03 - Mr. and Mrs. Ford in 1898 Ford….the first Ford

Life Magazine 1946-06-10 - Flash floods on Susquehanna and Texas

Life Magazine 1946-06-17 - Chicago hotel fire kills 60 people

Life Magazine 1946-06-24 - Electricity (in kitchen) works for peanuts!

 Life Magazine 1946-07-01 - Atomic bomb test in the Marshalls

Life Magazine 1946-07-08 - US shows off flying wing

Life Magazine 1946-07-15 - Farm machines

Life Magazine 1946-07-22 - Empire State Building suicide

Life Magazine 1946-07-29 - US produces second biggest wheat crop in history

Life Magazine 1946-08-05 - New York at night

Life Magazine 1946-08-12 - British uncover hidden weapon in Jewish farm community

Life Magazine 1946-08-19 - Yellowstone

Life Magazine 1946-08-26 - France rebuilds her railroads

 Life Magazine 1946-09-02 - Glaciers in Alaska

Life Magazine 1946-09-09 - Archaeology in Arizona 

Life Magazine 1946-09-16 - Model airplanes

Life Magazine 1946-09-23 - Coca Cola after school

Life Magazine 1946-09-30 - Graphic depiction of LA traffic

Life Magazine 1946-10-07 - Crowded schools

Life Magazine 1946-10-14 - Nurnberg trial ends

Life Magazine 1946-10-21 - Houston

Life Magazine 1946-10-28 - Shell Agricultural Laboratory

 Life Magazine 1946-11-04 - Stranded whale (Long Island)

Life Magazine 1946-11-11 - The road back to Berlin

Life Magazine 1946-11-18 - Land of Yemen

Life Magazine 1946-11-25 - Synthetic rubber plant

Life Magazine 1946-12-02 - Margaret Wise Brown

Life Magazine 1946-12-09 - Nazi brains help US

Life Magazine 1946-12-16 - Worst hotel fire in US (Atlanta GA)

Life Magazine 1946-12-23 - Christmas Rush

Life Magazine 1946-12-30 - Europe’s children

More Stories of the Three Little Pigs

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Project Gutenberg has More Stories of the Three Little Pigs published in 1921 (a decade before my mother and father were born) and part of the Instructor Literature Series from F.A. Owen Publishing Company. It was written by Sarah Grames Clark and Illustrated by Bess Bruce Cleaveland. As I browsed the book I wondered if either of my parents saw it during their elementary school years.

 More Stories of the Three Pigs

Form Givers

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Mid-Century Architecture was the subject of the Form Givers exhibit of 1959. The exhibit book is the week’s Book of the Week and is available from Internet Archive. The exhibit was organized and sponsored by Time Magazine for The American Federation of Arts. The Corcoran Gallery of Art was one of the museums to host the exhibit. I was a little surprised that there was no west coast museum (the furthest west was The Minneapolis Institute of Arts) on the list of museums even though there were examples of some west coast structures featured in the photographs.

The quote from Henry R. Luce on the title page (“…and we will succeed in creating the first modern, technological, humane, prosperous, and reverent civilization. This creative response to challenge will be most vividly expressed in and by architecture.”) reflects the optimism about the future in the late 1950s….a time just before I started school.  

Form givers

eBotanical Prints – January 2026

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Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in January – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive.   I started working my way through the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters in December; there are 4 volumes per year so I only browsed late 1980s and into the 1990s in January; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in February.

My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,283 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.

Click on any sample image from January’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.

Enjoy the January 2026 eBotanical Prints!

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.14:no.4 (1985) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1985

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.15:no.1 (1986) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1986

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.15:no.2 (1986) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1986

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.16:no.1 (1987) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1987

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.16:no.2 (1987) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1987

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.16:no.3 (1987) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1987

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.16:no.4 (1987) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1987

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.17:no.1 (1988) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1988

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.17:no.2 (1988) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1988

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.17:no.3 (1988) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1988

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.17:no.4 (1988) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1988

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.18:no.1 (1989) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1989

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.18:no.2 (1989) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1989

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.18:no.3 (1989) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1989

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.18:no.4 (1989) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1989

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.20:no.3 (1991) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1991

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.20:no.4 (1991) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1991

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.21:no.3 (1992) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1992

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.22:no.3 (1993) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1993

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.23:no.2 (1994) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1994

Jardine’s Hummingbirds

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Sir William Jardine was a Scottish naturalist in the 1800s. He edited a series of natural history books; two of them (about hummingbirds) are the pick for this week’s eBooks. They were published in 1833 and 1836 respectively and are available from Internet Archive. I picked two images from each volume…many more are available in these volumes.

 The natural history of humming birds V1

The natural history of humming birds V2

Life Magazine in 1945

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Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1945, it seemed that the was pivotal: the atrocities in Europe were in the news more and trials were starting for German leader that had not killed themselves….the US succeeded in ending the war with Japan by using atomic bombs.  The industry that supplied the war was being scrapped or turned to civilian uses. (Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)

Life Magazine 1945-01-01 - 5,000 tires wear out on the western front every 24 hours

Life Magazine 1945-01-08 - Evening of July 25 in Normandy (painting)

Life Magazine 1945-01-15 - Granite stones for Hitler’s victory monument

Life Magazine 1945-01-22 - Western Electric ad

Life Magazine 1945-01-29 - Vegetable of War in the Southwest

Life Magazine 1945-02-05 - Murder in the Snow (where Germans shot US prisoners

Life Magazine 1945-02-12 - Trench foot

Life Magazine 1945-02-19 - Dalai Lama

Life Magazine 1945-02-26 - Soldiers in Germany (winter)

 Life Magazine 1945-03-05 - Iwo Jima

Life Magazine 1945-03-12 - Glass manufacturing

Life Magazine 1945-03-19 - Germans crumble in the west

Life Magazine 1945-03-26 - German girl in ruins of Cologne

Life Magazine 1945-04-02 - Coca Cola ad

Life Magazine 1945-04-09 - American paratrooper….east of the Rhine

Life Magazine 1945-04-16 - Ford ad

Life Magazine 1945-04-23 - Roosevelt's death

Life Magazine 1945-04-30 - Hitler's hideout

 Life Magazine 1945-05-07 - Belsen

Life Magazine 1945-05-14 - Nazi suicides

Life Magazine 1945-05-21 - London goes wild on VE day

Life Magazine 1945-05-28 - Okinawa

Life Magazine 1945-06-04 - Battered face of Germany

Life Magazine 1945-06-11 - Middle East oil

Life Magazine 1945-06-18 - Americans battle for Okinawa

Life Magazine 1945-06-25 - Harry Truman's Missouri

 Life Magazine 1945-07-02 - Hitler's eyrie

Life Magazine 1945-07-09 - Japanese surrenders are increasing

Life Magazine 1945-07-16 - Caricatures of correspondents

Life Magazine 1945-07-23 - Berlin

Life Magazine 1945-07-30 - Postwar Jeep

Life Magazine 1945-08-06 - Empire State Building fire

Life Magazine 1945-08-13 - General Motors: refrigerators and airplane propeller blades

Life Magazine 1945-08-20 - Atomic bomb

Life Magazine 1945-08-27 - Victorious China

 Life Magazine 1945-09-03 - Planes scrapped

Life Magazine 1945-09-10 - Battered Tokyo

Life Magazine 1945-09-17 - Hiroshima

Life Magazine 1945-09-24 - Coca Cola ad

Life Magazine 1945-10-01 - International Harvester ad

Life Magazine 1945-10-08 - Masks worn in Hiroshima

Life Magazine 1945-10-15 - Nagasaki

Life Magazine 1945-10-22 - USS Battan in Panama Canal

Life Magazine 1945-10-29 - USS Enterprise I New York Harbor

 Life Magazine 1945-11-05 - Solar eclipse

Life Magazine 1945-11-12 - Waterfront fire - Chicago

Life Magazine 1945-11-19 - British brides

Life Magazine 1945-11-26 - Graveyard of US Liberty ships

Life Magazine 1945-12-03 - Berlin children

Life Magazine 1945-12-10 - International Harvester ad

Life Magazine 1945-12-17 - Housing shortage

Life Magazine 1945-12-24 - Tom Wolf and Asheville NC

Life Magazine 1945-12-31 - Big snow in Buffalo

Mother West Wind eBooks

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Four books by Thorton W. Burgess are this week’s book of the week. They were published between 1911 and 1920 – available on Project Gutenberg for online viewing. He was a prolific writer of children’s books and a conservationist. These are some of his earlies books and are well-illustrated.

Mother West Wind's Children

Mother West Wind's Animal Friends

Mother West Wind “When” Stories

Mother West Wind "Why" Stories

America 1976

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The ‘book of the week’ is a catalog from an exhibition of art that started at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in second quarter of 1976 and then to other museums around the country until May 1978. It is available from Internet Archive.

This year will be the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence being adopted…and there will probably be similar exhibits celebrating the nation through art this year. I remember 1976 from the perspective of living in the Dallas area, working full time and taking classed toward my biology degree at night; I was so busy during the week most of the time at home was spent asleep; my husband and I had a weekly out-to-eat between my work and evening classes as a time to talk/catch up with each other. I was a little aware of special construction projects and celebrations that happened with the bicentennial and probably went to see some fireworks….but don’t remember seeing any associated art exhibits! Maybe this year will be different. I’d rather see a drone show than fireworks (better air quality) and being in an air-conditioned museum in July sounds good to me!

America 1976: a Bicentennial Exhibition Sponsored by the United States Department of the Interior

eBotanical Prints – December 2025

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Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in December – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive.   I started working my way through the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters in December; there are 4 volumes per year so I only browsed the first ones from the first half of the 1980s; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in January.

My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,263 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.

Click on any sample image from December’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.

Enjoy the December 2025 eBotanical Prints!

Hortus Lindenianus : recueil iconographique des plantes nouvelles introduites par l'établissement * Linden, Jean Jules * sample image * 1859

Indicateur de Maine et Loire V2 * Millet de La Turtaudière, Pierre-Aimé * sample image * 1864

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.10:no.1 (1981)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1981

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.10:no.2 (1981)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1981

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.10:no.3 (1981)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1981

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.10:no.4 (1981)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1981

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.11:no.1 (1982)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1982

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.11:no.2 (1982)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1982

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.11:no.3 (1982)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1982

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.12:no.1 (1983)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1983

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.12:no.2 (1983)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1983

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.12:no.3 (1983)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1983

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.12:no.4 (1983)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1983

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.13:no.1 (1984)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1984

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.13:no.2 (1984)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1984

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.13:no.3 (1984)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1984

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.13:no.4 (1984)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1984

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.14:no.1 (1985)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1985

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.14:no.2 (1985)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1985

Carnivorous plant newsletter v.14:no.3 (1985)  * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1985

Louise Herreshoff

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The book I am highlighting this week is the exhibit book from a 1976 exhibit of Louise Herreshoff paintings at Washington and Lee University and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. When the artist died in 1967, she had not painted since her aunt (her foster mother) had died in 1927; her paintings were discovered when movers came to move her extensive porcelain collection from her home to Washington and Lee University – as directed by her will! The book is available from Internet Archive.

 Louise Herreshoff: An American Artist Discovered

Weggeloopen!

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"Weggeloopen!" was published in 1919 – a story about a mischievous boy named Paul, who frequently disobeys his parents and often gets into trouble. The illustrator was Cecil Aldin – a British artist and illustrator. The book contains many of his drawings which depict the time in the first decades of the 1900s. It is available from Project Gutenberg.

Weggeloopen!!

There are quite a few books illustrated by Cecil Aldin available on Internet Archive, but this is the only one not in English! Because of the publication date, I wondered if the illustrations for this book were done after his only son died in World War I in 1916.

Life Magazine in 1944

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Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1944, I thought about how the US was focused on the war and, while the war seemed to be moving in favor of the Allies, it was brutal. Casualties were mounting and at the end of the year the battle was still raging on. (Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)

 Life Magazine 1944-01-03 - US civilians buy their first jeep

Life Magazine 1944-01-10 - Bob Hope

Life Magazine 1944-01-17 - Rockets

Life Magazine 1944-01-24 - X-rays

Life Magazine 1944-01-31 - Yesterday’s battlefield

Life Magazine 1944-02-07 - USS Missouri

Life Magazine 1944-02-14 - Kansas raises fine families

Life Magazine 1944-02-21 - Evacuation hospital

Life Magazine 1944-02-28 - Pullman ad

Life Magazine 1944-03-06 - Belmont Radio ad

Life Magazine 1944-03-13 - Attu Island

Life Magazine 1944-03-13 - Tule Lake Hospital (Japanese Interment)

Life Magazine 1944-03-27 - Worst garden weeds

Life Magazine 1944-04-03 - Oil wells

Life Magazine 1944-04-10 - Dyslexia

Life Magazine 1944-04-17 - April snow in New York City

Life Magazine 1944-04-24 - Spring 1944

 Life Magazine 1944-05-01 - Ruined Anzio

Life Magazine 1944-05-08 - Steamboat on the Mississippi

Life Magazine 1944-05-15 - Troop train

Life Magazine 1944-05-22 - In the Aleutians

Life Magazine 1944-05-29 - US submarine saves airmen

Life Magazine 1944-06-05 - Woman in California shipbuilding

Life Magazine 1944-06-12 - Rome falls

Life Magazine 1944-06-19 - Ships bring back wounded and dead

Life Magazine 1944-06-26 - Palmyra atoll

 Life Magazine 1944-07-03 - Taps Normandy: June 1944

Life Magazine 1944-07-10 - B-29

Life Magazine 1944-07-17 - Penicillin

Life Magazine 1944-07-24 - War ravages Italy’s art

Life Magazine 1944-07-31 - Infantile paralysis (polio)

Life Magazine 1944-08-07 - Swedish glass

Life Magazine 1944-08-14 - Marshal Tito

Life Magazine 1944-08-21 - Truman of Missouri

Life Magazine 1944-08-28 - Invasion array

 Life Magazine 1944-09-04 - Korea

Life Magazine 1944-09-11 - Dutch Elm Disease

Life Magazine 1944-09-18 - Brussels

Life Magazine 1944-09-25 - US production soars

Life Magazine 1944-10-02 - First battle of German begins

Life Magazine 1944-10-09 - Wartime England

Life Magazine 1944-10-16 - Fading Newport

Life Magazine 1944-10-23 - Colorado River

Life Magazine 1944-10-30 - Omaha Beach

 Life Magazine 1944-11-06 - Kitchen preview

Life Magazine 1944-11-13 - Sea floods Holland

Life Magazine 1944-11-20 - Roosevelt wins a 3rd term

Life Magazine 1944-11-27 - Moscow

Life Magazine 1944-12-04 - Hitler

Life Magazine 1944-12-11 - List of US war causalities

Life Magazine 1944-12-18 - The battlefield of Germany

Life Magazine 1944-12-25 - Civil War breaks out in Greece

eBotanical Prints – November 2025

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Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in November – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive.   The publication dates span 360 years (1600 to 1960) for these 20 volumes.

There are two series this month:

  • 3 volumes of Fungi by M.F. Lewis (The Internet Archive abstract: Relatively little is known of Miss Lewis, but the quality of drawings, spanning over 40 years, shows her to have been an extremely skilled artist and mycologist)

  • 8 volumes of Bothalia, a scientific journal from the National Herbarium at the University of South Africa

My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,243 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.

Click on any sample image from November’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.

Enjoy the November 2025 eBotanical Prints!

Flowering plants from the gardens of Lord Bute at Luton Hoo * Taylor, Simon * sample image * 1770

A collection of engraved and etched flower plates * Monnoyer, Jean Baptiste * sample image * 1680

Three studies of trees * Farrer, Henry * sample image * 1900

Variae ac multiformes florum species appressae ad vivum et aeneis tabulis incisae * Robert, Nicolas * sample image * 1600

Autumn leaves of America. Coloured from nature  * Robbins, Ellen * sample image * 1870

The shape, skeleton and foliage of 32 species of Trees * Cozens, Alexander * sample image * 1786

Illustrations of orchidaceous plants * Bauer, Franz Andreas * sample image * 1830

Collection of 52 watercolour drawings of Madagascar orchids * Cowan, William Deans * sample image * 1880

Fungii Vol 1 * Lewis, M.F.  * sample image * 1902

Fungii Vol 2 * Lewis, M.F.  * sample image * 1902

Fungii Vol 3 * Lewis, M.F.  * sample image * 1902

An Album of Flowers * German School * sample image * 1630

Bothalia - V4 Part 2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1941

Bothalia - V5 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1950

Bothalia - V4 Part 3 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1948

Bothalia - V6 Part 1 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1951

Bothalia - V6 Part 2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1954

Bothalia - V6 Part 2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1956

Bothalia - V7 Part 1 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1958

Bothalia - V7 Part 2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1960

Leonard Leslie Brooke Ring o’ Roses (eBook)

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Leonard Leslie Brooke was a leading children’s book illustrator in the early 1900s. This week’s book of the week is his Ring o' Roses published in 1907 and available from Project Gutenberg. There are 4 sample images from the book below. Enjoy!

The World of the Great Forest (eBook)

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Paul du Chaillu was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s for his reports from central Africa; he was the first modern European to confirm the existence of gorillas and the Pygmy people. He collected type specimens for species of bushbaby, bat, squirrel and 39 birds! This week’s eBook is one he published later in his life (in 1900) drawing on his African experiences. The illustrations are done by C.R. Knight and J.M. Gleeson.

The world of the great forest

Life Magazine in 1943

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Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1943, the ads that almost always have a linkage to the war stand out. Every issue had one or more articles about the war too. The magazine depicted a country pulling hard to support the military and the war effort.

Life Magazine 1943-01-04

Life Magazine 1943-01-11

Life Magazine 1943-01-18

Life Magazine 1943-01-25

Life Magazine 1943-02-01

Life Magazine 1943-02-08

Life Magazine 1943-02-15

Life Magazine 1943-02-22

eBotanical Prints – October 2025

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Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in October – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive.  The publication dates span from 1750 (Plantae selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini – the second on the list) to 2007 (Benjamin Smith Barton: naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America…the seventh on the list). There are two series:

Revue bretonne de botanique pure et appliquée from the early 1900s. The volumes were edited by Lucien Daniel, a professor of applied botany at the University of Rennes.

Bothalia, a publication of the National Herbarium at the University of South Africa in Pretoria from the 1920s and 1930s.

My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,223 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.

Click on any sample image from October’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.

Enjoy the October 2025 eBotanical Prints

Collection des fleurs et des fruits, peints d'après nature * Prevost, Jean Louis, The Younger * sample image * 1805

Plantae selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini * Ehret, Georg Dionysius; Haid, Johann Jacob; Trew, Christoph Jacob * sample image * 1750

Revue bretonne de botanique pure et appliquée no. 1-2 * Daniel, Lucien * sample image * 1906

Revue bretonne de botanique pure et appliquée no.5-6 * Daniel, Lucien * sample image * 1910

Revue bretonne de botanique pure et appliquée no.7-8 * Daniel, Lucien * sample image * 1912

Botanicum medicinale : an herbal of medicinal plants on the College of Physicians list * Sheldrake, Timothy et al * sample image * 1768

Benjamin Smith Barton :naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America * Crosby, Marshall R.; Duggan, Eileen P.; Ewan, Nesta; Hollowell, Victoria C. * sample image * 2007

Revisión de las especies de Paspalum para América del Sur austral * Zuloaga, Fernando O.; Morrone, Osvaldo * sample image * 2005

Botanical illustration * King, Ronald * sample image * 1978

An album of Chinese flora * Chinese School * sample image * 1800

Collection of fruit bearing plants executed by one or more Chinese artists for Dr. Thomas Ward * Chinese School * sample image * 1828

The culture of the Central American rubber tree: botanical investigations and experiments * Cook, Orator Fuller * sample image * 1903

The Chayote: a tropical fruit * Cook, Orator Fuller * sample image * 1901

Bothalia - V1 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1924

Bothalia - V2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1928

Bothalia - V3 Part 1 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1930

Bothalia - V3 Part 2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1937

Bothalia - V3 Part 3 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1938

Bothalia - V3 Part 4 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1939

Bothalia - V4 Part 1 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1941

Life Magazine in 1942

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Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1942, I saw the impact of Pearl Harbor on the nation and the magazine. There every week there were articles about the war and even the ads contained references to the war. It was a voice that both reported on and promoted the active support of the war effort by everyone.

(Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)

 Life Magazine 1942-01-05

Life Magazine 1942-01-12

Life Magazine 1942-01-19

Life Magazine 1942-01-26

Life Magazine 1942-02-02

Life Magazine 1942-02-09

Life Magazine 1942-02-16

Life Magazine 1942-02-23

Charles H. Bennett – Illustrator

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Charles H. Bennett was a British illustrator; 5 of his books that are available from Internet Archive are this week’s pick for eBooks. They were published between 1857 and 1872; the last one was published after his death in 1867.

He died early leaving his wife with 8 children and another on the way; his colleagues thought so highly of him that they raised funds to help the widow – enough that more than a decade after his death she claim to have ‘means derived from dividends.’