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- A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica :with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd, an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved. In large copper-plates as big as the life /by Hans Sloane.
Publication Info: London :Printed by B.M. for the author,1707-1725.
- Vegetable staticks, or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables :being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation : also, a specimen of an attempt to analyse the air, by a great variety of chymio-statical experiments; which were read at several meetings before the Royal Society /by Steph. Hales ...
Publication Info: London : Printed for W. and J. Innys ... : and T. Woodward, 1727. - Botanicon parisiense, ou, Denombrement par ordre alphabetique des plantes, qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris :avec plusieurs descriptions des plantes, leurs synonymes, le Tems de fleurir & de grainer et une critique des auteurs de botanique /par Sebastien Vaillant ; enrichi de plus de trois cents figures, dessinéss par le sieur Claude Aubriet.
Publication Info: Leide :J. & H. Verbeek,1727.
- Catalogus Plantarum :tum exotiarum tum domesticarum, quae in hortis haud procul a Londino sitis in venditionem propagantur = A Catalogue of trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers, both exotic and domestic, which are propagated for sale, in the gardens near London :divided, accorded to their different degrees of hardiness, into particular books, or parts; in each of which the plants are ranged in an alphabetical order. by a Society of Gardeners
Publication Info: London :[Society of Gardeners],c1730.
- Hortus Cliffortianus :plantas exhibens quas in hortis tam vivis quam siccis, Hartecampi in Hollandia, coluit ... Georgius Clifford ... reductis varietatibus ad species, speciebus ad genera, generibus ad classes, adjectis locis plantarum natalibus differentiisque specierum. Cum tabulis aeneis /auctore Carolo Linnaeo.
Publication Info: Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]:[s.n.],1737. - Phytanthoza iconographia, sive, Conspectus aliquot millium :tam indigenarum quam exoticarum, ex quatuor mundi partibus longâ annorum serie indefesoque studio /à Joanne Guilielmo Weinmanno ... ; collectarum plantarum, arborum, fruticam, florum, fructuum, fungorum, &c., quae nitidissime aeri incisae, & simul diu desiderata ac recens inventa arte, vivis coloribus & iconibus, naturae aemulis, excusae & representatae per Bartholomaeum Seuterum, Joannem Eliam Ridingerum et Joannem Jacobum Haidium ... quorum denominationes characteres, Genera, Species & descriptiones ex optimis, tam priscis quam neotericis auctoribus, ordine ac serie alphabetica, cum probatissimo, usu medico, pharmaceutico, chirurgico, ac oeconomico, Latino & Germanico idiomate sincere explicantur à D. Joanne Georgio Nicolao Dieterico ... [continued by L.M. Dieterichs and A.C. Bieler].
Publication Info: Sumptibus imprimebatur Ratisbonae [Regensburg] : Per Hieronymum Lentzium, 1737-1745. - A curious herbal :containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings taken from the life /by Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added a short description of ye plants and their common uses in physick.
Publication Info: London : Printed for Samuel Harding, 1737-1739. - Thesaurus zeylanicus :exhibens plantas in insula Zeylana nascentes, inter quas plurimae novae species & genera inveniuntur, omnia iconibus illustrata, ac descripta /cura & studio Joannis Burmanni ...
Publication Info: Amstelaedami :Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios & Salomonem Schouten,1737.
- Herbarium amboinense :plurimas conplectens arbores, frutices, herbas, plantas terrestres & aquaticas, quae in Amboina et adjacentibus reperiuntur insulis adcuratissime descriptas iuxta earum formas, cum diuersis denominationibus cultura, usu, ac virtutibus, quod & insuper exhibet varia insectorum animaliumque genera, plurima cum naturalibus eorum figuris depicta /omnia magno labore ac studio multos per annos conlegit, & duodecim libris belgice conscripsit Georg. Everhard Rumphius ... ; nunc primum in lucem edidit, & in latinum sermonem vertit Joannes Burmannus ... qui varia adjecit synonyma, suasque observationes pars prima [-sexta].
Publication Info: Amstelaedami : Apud Fransicum Changuion, Joannem Catuffe, Hermannum Uytwerf, 1741-50.
- Caroli Linnaei ... Hortus upsaliensis :exhibens plantas exoticas, Horto upsaliensis academiae a sese illatas, ab anno 1742, in annum 1748, additis differentiis, synonymis, habitationibus, hospitiis, rariorumque descriptionibus, in gratiam studiosae juventutis.
Publication Info: Stockholmiae :Sumtu & literis Laurentii Salvii,1748.
- Caroli Linnaei, Sac. Reg. Maj. Suec. ... Amoenitates academicae, seu, Dissertationes variae :physicae, medicae, botanicae antehac seorsim editae nunc collectae et auctae cum tabulis aeneis, accedit Hypothesis nova de febrium intermittentium causa.
Publication Info: Lugduni Batavorum :Apud Cornelium Haak,1749. - Caroli Linnaei ... Amoenitates academicae, seu, Dissertationes variae physicae, medicae, botanicae :antehac seorsim editae : nunc collectae et auctae : cum tabulis aeneis.
Publication Info: Holmiae ;et Lipsiae :Apud Godofredum Kiesewetter,1749-1769.
- Plantarum americanarum fasciculus primus[-decimus] :continens plantas, quas olim Carolus Plumierius, botanicorum princeps detexit, eruitque, atque in insulis Antillis ipse depinxit /Has primum in lucem edidit, concinnisdescriptionibus, & observationibus, aeneisque tabulis illustravit Joannes Burmannus.
Publication Info: Amstelaedami :Lugd. Batav.,Sumtibus Auctoris, Prostant in Horto Medico, atqueApud Viduam & Filium S. Schouten;Apud G. Potuliet & T. Haak,[1755-60]
- The gardeners dictionary :containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden, and nursery, as also for performing the practical parts of agriculture, including the management of vineyards, with the methods of making and preserving wine, according to the present practice of the most skilful vignerons in the several wine countries in Europe, together with directions for propagating and improving, from real practice and experience, all sorts of timber trees /by Philip Miller.
Publication Info: London : Printed for the author and sold by John and Francis Rivington ... [and 23 others], 1768.
- Hortus botanicus vindobonensis, seu, Plantarum rariorum, quae in Horto botanico vindobonensi ... :coluntur, icones coloratae et succinctae descriptiones /cura et sumptibus Nicolai Josephi Jacquin ...
Publication Info: Vindobonae : Typis Leopoldi Joannis Kaliwoda, aulae imperialis typographi, 1770-1776. - The useful family herbal:or, An account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries. With their descriptions, and their uses, as proved by experience. Illustrated with figures of the most useful English plants. With an introduction ... and an appendix ... .
Publication Info: London,W. Owen,1770.
- Iris ...
Publication Info: Upsaliæ,apud J. Edman[1782]
- Cornus :specimen botanicum sistens descriptiones et icones specierum corni minus cognitarum /Car. Lud. L'HeÌritier, Dom. de Brutelle.
Publication Info: Parisiis : Typis Petri-Francisci Didot [etc.], 1788. - Nova genera & species plantarum, seu, Prodromus descriptionum vegetabilium :maximam partem incognitorum quæ sub itinere in Indiam Occidentalem annis 1783-87 /digessit, Olof Swartz.
Publication Info: Holmiae [Stockholm], Upsaliæ & Aboæ : in bibliopoliis Acad. M. Swederi, 1788 ( - Restio ...
Publication Info: Upsaliæ,litteris J. Edman[1788] - Systema naturae per regna tria naturae :secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis /Caroli a Linné ...
Publication Info: Lipsiae [Leipzig] :Impensis Georg. Emanuel. Beer.,1788-1793.
- Recueil de plantes coloriees, pour servir a l'intelligence des lettres elementaires sur la botanique.
Publication Info: Paris : Poincot, Libraire, 1789. - Summa plantarum :quae hactenus innotuerunt methodo Linnaeana per genera et species digesta, illustrata, descripta /a Fulgentio Vitman ...
Publication Info: Mediolani :Typis Imper. Monast. s. Ambrosii majoris,1789-1792. - Hortus Kewensis, or, A catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew /by William Aiton ...
Publication Info: London :Printed for George Nicol, Bookseller to his Majesty,1789.
- Culpeper's English physician and complete herbal :to which are now first added upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind, to which are annexed rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature, forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic ... /illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory by E. Sibley ...
Publication Info: London :printed for the proprietors and sold by C. Stalker ...,1790. - Elementa botanica :genera genuina, species naturales omnium vegetabilium detectorum eorumque characteres diagnosticos ac peculiares exhibentia, secundum systema omologicum seu naturale, evulgata ...
Publication Info: Paris :apud Bossange et Soc. Bibliopol.,1790. - Nat. Jos. de Necker, botan. ... Corollarium ad Philos. botanicam Linnaei spectans, generis, speciei naturalis &c. :vegetabilium omnium detectorum; fructuum diversorum aliarumque fructificationis partium definitiones expletas, continens, cum tabulis separatis.
Publication Info: Neowedae ad Rhenum [Neuwied, Germany] :Apud Societatem Typographycam [sic],1790. - Icones pictae plantarum rariorum descriptionibus et observationibus illustratae /Auctore J.E. Smith, M.D. Fasc. 1-3.
Publication Info: London, 1790-93] - Medical botany: containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh : accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed /by William Woodville ... .
Publication Info: London :Printed and sold for the author by James Phillips ... ,1790-1793. - Flora cochinchinensis :sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes. Quibus accedunt aliae observatae in Sinensi imperio, Africa Orientali, Indiaeque locis variis. Omnes dispositae secundum systema sexuale Linnaeanum. Labore /ac studio Joannis de Loureiro ... Jussu Acad. r. scient. in lucem edita.
Publication Info: Ulyssipone : Typis, et expensis academicis, 1790.
- Flora Indiae Occidentalis :aucta atque illustrata sive descriptiones plantarum in prodromo recensitarum / Olavi Swartz.
Publication Info: Erlangae [Erlangen, Germany] :Jo. Jacobi Palmii,1797 ( - A description of the genus Cinchona:comprehending the various species of vegetables from which the Peruvian and other barks of a similar quality are taken, illustrated by figures of all the species hitherto discovered, to which is prefixed Professor Vahl's dissertation on this genus, read before the Society of natural history at Copenhagen, also a description, accompanied by figures, of a new genus named Hyaenanche, or hyaena poison.
Publication Info: London : Printed for B. and J. White, 1797. - Plantarum rariorum horti caesarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones /Opera et sumptibus Nicolai Josephi Jacquin.
Publication Info: Viennae : Apud C. F. Wappler; Londini : Apud B. et J. White; Lugduni Batavorum : Apud S. et J. Luchtmans, 1797-1804. - Muscologia recentiorum seu analysis, historia et descriptio methodica omnium muscorum frondosorum hucusque cognitorum ad normam Hedwigii.
Publication Info: Gothae : apud C. G. Ettingerum : Parisiis, apud Barrois iuniorem, 1797-1803. - Caroli a Linné Species plantarum :exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas.
Publication Info: Berolini :Impensis G.C. Nauk,1797-1830. - The natural history of the rarer lepidopterous insects of Georgia :including their systematic characters, the particulars of their several metamorphoses, and the plants on which they feed. Collected from the observation of Mr. John Abbot, many years resident in that country /by James Edward Smith.
Publication Info: London : Printed by T. Bensley, for J. Edwards [etc.] 1797. - Dissertatio de usu Menyanthidis trifoliatae ...
Publication Info: Upsaliae,Joh. Fr. Edman[1797]
- Flora Peruviana, et Chilensis, sive, Descriptiones et icones plantarum Peruvianarum, et Chilensium, secundum systema Linnaeanum digestae, cum characteribus plurium generum evulgatorum reformatisauctoribus Hippolyto Ruiz, et Josepho Pavon.
Publication Info: Madrid :Typis Gabrielis de Sancha,1798-1802. - Flora atlantica :sive historia plantarum quae in Atlante, agro tunetano et algeriensi crescunt /auctore Renato Desfontaines.
Publication Info: Parisiis : L.G. Desgranges, [1798-1799?] - Plantarum selectarum icones pictae /editae a Nicolao Meerburg.
Publication Info: Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] : Apud J. Meerburg, 1798. - Systema vegetabilium florae Peruvianae et Chilensis :characteres prodromi genericos differentias ... /auctoribus Hippolyto Ruiz et Josepho Pavon.
Publication Info: [Madrid?] :Typis Gabrielis de Sancha,1798.