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 Animal Friends
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
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
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.
"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.
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.
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
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 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!
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.
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.
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
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.)
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.’
Andrew Garrett was an American explorer, naturalist, and illustrator. He was born in Vermont in 1823 but spent most of his life (from 1857 to 1887) on pacific islands including Hawaii from 1857-1863). He was completely self-taught…became a skilled artist and adventurer/scientist of shells and fishes. The 7 volumes that are my ‘book of the week’ are his watercolors of fishes; they are available from Internet Archive. This work became the baseline of south sea fishes for the next generation of ichthyologists.
Andrew Garrett (1823-1887) collection of 489 original watercolour drawings of South Sea fishes V1
Andrew Garrett (1823-1887) collection of 489 original watercolour drawings of South Sea fishes V2
Andrew Garrett (1823-1887) collection of 489 original watercolour drawings of South Sea fishes V3
Andrew Garrett (1823-1887) collection of 489 original watercolour drawings of South Sea fishes V4
Andrew Garrett (1823-1887) collection of 489 original watercolour drawings of South Sea fishes V5
Andrew Garrett (1823-1887) collection of 489 original watercolour drawings of South Sea fishes V6
Andrew Garrett (1823-1887) collection of 489 original watercolour drawings of South Sea fishes V7
The Corcoran Gallery of Art organized an exhibit of art featuring Niagara Falls in 1985. The exhibit book is available for browsing on Internet Archive. There are four essays included:
Nature’s Grand Scene in Art
An American Icon
Doing Niagara Falls in the Nineteenth Century
The Role of Niagara in America’s Scenic Preservation
Or – just browse the book for the art! I’ve selected 4 sample images…there are a lot more to be found by browsing the whole book (link below).
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in September - available for browsing on Internet Archive. The publication dates span over 300 years – 1570 to 1888!
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,203 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from September’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 September 2025 eBotanical Prints!
Album of field plants and cultivated plants * Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques * sample image * 1580
A collection of fruits from the West Indies, drawn and coloured from nature * Byam, Lydia * sample image * 1800
Drawings of tropical flowers and fruits, from South America * Empson, Charles * sample image * 1830
Botanical manuscript of 450 watercolors of flowers and plants * anonymous * sample image * 1740
Collection of seventy-eight water color plates of plants * anonymous * sample image * 1700
Tulpenboeken * Marrel, Jacob * sample image * 1670
Album of watercolors of Asian fruits and flowers * anonymous * sample image * 1798
Plantes des environs de Paris * Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois * sample image * 1805
Illustrationes florae Novae Hollandiae, sive, Icones generum * Bauer, Ferdinand * sample image * 1813
Piante varie * Garzoni, Giovanna * sample image * 1650
L'art de peindre les fleurs a l'aquarelle : précédé d'un traité de botanique élémentaire, et orné d'un choix des plus belles fleurs * Dufour, Augustine * sample image * 1837
Die Pflanze in Kunst und Gewerbe V1 * Seder, Anton; Gerlach, Martin; Ilg, Albert * sample image * 1886
Die Pflanze in Kunst und Gewerbe V2 * Seder, Anton; Gerlach, Martin; Ilg, Albert * sample image * 1886
Conversations on the botany of the Scriptures * Coxe, Margaret * sample image * 1837
Water-color sketches of plants of North America and Europe - Volume 12 * Sharp, Helen * sample image * 1888
Album of Chinese watercolors of Asian fruits * anonymous * sample image * 1810
Paintings of Flowers, Butterflies, and Insects * Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques * sample image * 1570
Roland Thaxter sketch book * Thaxter, Roland * sample image * 1886
British grasses * Wharton, Elizabeth and Margaret * sample image * 1802
The compleat florist * Robsinson, J. (seller) * sample image * 1747
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 1941, I thought about the buildup of war activities in the US and then Pearl Harbor occurring in December. The US did not formally enter the war until December 11th but it is obvious from the pictures Life published that people were very aware of what was happening and the US involvement too. And there were still other aspects of life that continued on – iceboats, Coca-Cola, glass food packaging, the New York skyline. (Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)
Life Magazine 1941-01-06 – Ernest Hemingway
Life Magazine 1941-01-13 – Hitler with big guns
Life Magazine 1941-01-20 – Florida sand and mud creating Camp Blanding for 70,000 soldiers
Life Magazine 1941-01-27 – London on fire from war
Life Magazine 1941-02-03 - Wright Field wind tunnel
Life Magazine 1941-02-10 – American bombers poised to take off from Newfoundland
Life Magazine 1941-02-17 - Iceboats
Life Magazine 1941-02-24 – Railway gun built by US Industry
Life Magazine 1941-03-03 – Greek Peasant troops into Albania in winter
Life Magazine 1941-03-10 – Mayor LaGuardia explaining the food stamp plan
Life Magazine 1941-03-17 – English children
Life Magazine 1941-03-24 – Tornado shelters
Life Magazine 1941-03-31 – Bombing rehearsal off Diamond Head, Hawaii from aircraft carrier
Life Magazine 1941-04-07 – Coca-Cola six-bottle carton (cardboard and glass)
Life Magazine 1941-04-14 – British war prisoners (sketches from a German prison camp)
Life Magazine 1941-04-21 – Damaged British battleship seeking repairs in New York’s upper bay
Life Magazine 1941-04-28 – Glass for food packaging
Life Magazine 1941-05-05 – Big classes at Harvard
Life Magazine 1941-05-12 – Gandhi is the voice of Hindu masses
Life Magazine 1941-05-19 – Nazi blitzkrieg reaches London’s oldest cardroom
Life Magazine 1941-05-26 – Balkan war
Life Magazine 1941-06-02 – Nazis wreck great monuments of English culture
Life Magazine 1941-06-09 – Crete invasion
Life Magazine 1941-06-16 – Women bringing pans to provide metals of the war
Life Magazine 1941-06-23 – Chinese children (orphans)
Life Magazine 1941-06-30 – Wrecked Axis ships
Life Magazine 1941-07-07 – The arming of America - tanks
Life Magazine 1941-07-14 – Beer and ale
Life Magazine 1941-07-21 – Tin makes Singapore rich
Life Magazine 1941-07-28 – War in Russia
Life Magazine 1941-08-04 – Germans execute Russian sniper caught in wheat field
Life Magazine 1941-08-11 – Life photographer in Moscow a week before Nazi invasion
Life Magazine 1941-08-18 – Line of tanks
Life Magazine 1941-08-25 – Naval gun construction at Bethlehem
Life Magazine 1941-09-01 – Moscow camouflages itself by day and black out by night
Life Magazine 1941-09-08 – Hard times of Alden family
Life Magazine 1941-09-15 – Battleship tests its guns at sea
Life Magazine 1941-09-22 – Roosevelt mourning his mother
Life Magazine 1941-09-29 – Spitsbergen – British blow up coal mines
Life Magazine 1941-10-06 – Rain, mud, dust….the Army goes through
Life Magazine 1941-10-13 – Appalachian trail
Life Magazine 1941-10-20 – Pan American Airways Clipper
Life Magazine 1941-10-27 – Crowd in Moscow park listening to war speakers
Life Magazine 1941-11-03 – Army builds its Iceland base
Life Magazine 1941-11-10 – New York skyline behind New Jersey suburbs
Life Magazine 1941-11-17 – Russian mud and blood stall German army
Life Magazine 1941-11-24 – B-19, world’s largest warplane (at the time)
Life Magazine 1941-12-01 – Balloon houses for defense workers under Virginia trees
Life Magazine 1941-12-08 – American flag goes down in the south Atlantic
Life Magazine 1941-12-15 – Jap bombers aim first blow at Oahu base
Life Magazine 1941-12-22 – US planes fight to command the air
Life Magazine 1941-12-29 – Knox Report – deeds of heroism at Pearl Harbor
The opening message of this book concluded by saying ‘We must not let homelessness become an American institution.’ And yet – in 2025, there are still a lot of people that are homeless and the cost of housing is rising fast enough that it is unlikely that there will ever be enough affordable housing….or effective enough attention to reduce the tragedies that unfold for people that find themselves in the situation.
The book is a pictorial work – full of photographs from cities all over America. Some of the people had died before the book was published. It is available on Internet Archive. I found myself thinking about what has changed. There are new drugs that are, at least, as addictive as the ones in 1988 and some are more likely to cause death from overdose or wounds that will never heal. The tents are similar. The cars that people try to live in are different models…probably just as uncomfortable. But in the end – the efforts that non-profits and churches and cities made really have not been very effective.
This week’s ‘book of the week’ is 22 issues of a journal from the Illinois Ornithological Society from 2012-2022(available on Internet Archive). I enjoyed the photography and drawings of birds that are seen in the Midwest…close enough to where I live that I see at least some of them in areas of Missouri. Click on any of the images in the mosaic to see a larger version. The links to the volumes are below the mosaic; they contain additional images and interesting articles about birds seen in the state.
As I write this post, I am planning a trip to Illinois in a week or so….hoping I will see some of these birds while I am there!
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in August - available for browsing on Internet Archive. The publication dates span almost 400 years! The oldest is from 1642 An album of botanical studies and represented by the sample image at row 3, column 2 in the mosaic. The most recent is from 2023 The Beauty of The Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration which Is a good reference for the history of botanical prints. The sample image is on the last row of the mosaic, column 3. My favorites this month are the 4 books by S. Fred Prince because they are about Missouri plants! The sample images are the 4th row in the sample image mosaic.
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,183 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from August’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 August 2025 eBotanical Prints!
Album of Garden Flowers * anonymous * sample image * 1800
Drawings and proof engravings for Francoise de la Roche’s Sea-Hollies * Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois * sample image * 1808
Album of 70 Asian fruit paintings * anonymous * sample image * 1800
Illustrations of orchidaceous plants * Moore, Thomas (editor) * sample image * 1857
Theatrum florae in quo ex toto orbe selecti mirabiles venustiores ac praecipui flores tanquam ab ipsus deae sinu proferuntur guillelmus theodorus pinxit 1624 * Rabel, Daniel * sample image * 1624
Getekende planten van rupelmonde V1 * Toulon, Martin Adriane Marie Van * sample image * 1823
Getekende planten van rupelmonde V2 * Toulon, Martin Adriane Marie Van * sample image * 1823
Getekende planten van rupelmonde V3 * Toulon, Martin Adriane Marie Van * sample image * 1823
Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Vol 148-149 * Curtis, William * sample image * 1923
An album of botanical studies * Dutch School * sample image * 1642
Album of Fruits and Flowers * Cloquet, Lise * sample image * 1820
Blumenbuch * Funck, Magdelena Rosina * sample image * 1692
Fifty years study of some of our most common ferns in their habitats : mostly at "Camptosorus" : 1883-1903-1930 * Prince, S. Fred * sample image * 1930
The rainbow in the grass; wildflowers of the Marvel Cave Ozark * Prince, S. Fred * sample image * 1936
Watercolors * Prince, S. Fred * sample image * 1936
Violets of the Ozarks * Prince, S. Fred * sample image * 1902
Pharmaceutisch-medicinische botanik V1 * Wagner, Daniel * sample image * 1828
Pharmaceutisch-medicinische botanik V2 * Wagner, Daniel * sample image * 1828
The Beauty Of The Flower: The Art And Science Of Botanical Illustration * Harris, Stephen A. * sample image * 2023
Catalogus plantarum horti Pisani * Till, Michel Angelo * sample image * 1723
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