Vibrant Treasures: Botanical Illustrations from the 16th to 20th Centuries: Works in the Exhibit
This guide provides more information about the plant-centric illustrations, herbals and books displayed in the exhibit in the MSU Libraries Murray and Hong Special Collections Reading Room, March-May, 2011.
Berlèse, Lorenzo, and J. J. Jung. Iconographie du genre
Camellia ; ou, Description et figures des camellia les plus beaux et les plus
rares: peints d'après nature dans les serres et sous la direction de M. l'abbé
Berlèse. Paris: H. Cousin, 1841. Tab: Hooker and Berlèse
Bigelow, Jacob. American Medical Botany, Being a Collection of
the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States, Containing Their Botanical
History and Chemical Analysis, and Properties and Uses in Medicine, Diet and
the Arts, with Coloured Engravings. Boston: Published by Cummings and
Hilliard; [Cambridge] University Press, Hilliard and Metcalf, 1817. Tab: Herbals
Bock, Hieronymus, David Kyber, and Conrad Gessner. Hieronymi
Tragi De stirpium, maxime earum, quae in Germania nostra nascuntur, usitatis
nomenclaturis, proprijs[que] differentijs, ne[que] non temperaturis ac facultatibus,
commentariorum libri tres. Germanica primum lingua conscripti [Liber primus].
Strasbourg?: W. Rihel?, 1552. Tab: Herbals
Catlow, Agnes. Popular Garden Botany: Containing a Familiar and
Scientific Description of Most of the Hardy and Half-Hardy Plants Introduced
into the Flower Garden. London: Lovell Reeve, 1855. Tab: Women Illustrators
Gerard, John, Thomas Johnson, Robert Davyes, Adam Islip, Joyce
Norton, and Richard Whitaker. The Herball, or, General Historie of Plantes.
London: Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636. Tab: Herbals
Le Maout, Emm. Botanique: organographie et taxonomie; histoire
naturelle des familles végétales et des principales espèces, suivant la
classification de M. Adrien de Jussieu. Avec l'indication de leur emploi dans
les arts, les sciences et le commerce. Paris: L. Curmer, 1852. Tab: Covers - Beauty inside and out
Michaux, François André, Pierre Joseph Redouté, J. Jay Smith,
J. Young Scammon, and Thomas Nuttall. The North American Sylva: Or, a
Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia.
Philadelphia: D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1859. Tab: Covers - Beauty inside and out
Miller, Philip, and Philip Miller. Figures of the Most
Beautiful, Useful, and Uncommon Plants Described in The Gardeners Dictionary:
Exhibited on Three Hundred Copper Plates, Accurately Engraven After Drawings
Taken from Nature : with the Characters of Their Flowers and Seed-Vessels,
Drawn When They Were in Their Greatest Perfection : to Which Are Added, Their
Descriptions, and an Account of the Classes to Which They Belong, According to
Ray's, Tournefort's, and Linnaeus's Method of Classing Them : in Two Volumes.
London: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Rivington ... [and 15 others],
1760. Tab: Sweerti & Miller
Redouté, Pierre Joseph, and Claude-Antoine Thory. Les roses.
Antwerp: Belgium, De Schutter S.A., 1974. Tab: Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Sweerts, Emanuel. Florilegium Emanvelis Sweerti ... tractans de
variis florib[us] et aliis indicis plâtis ad vivum delineatvm in dvabvs partib[us]
et qvator lingvis concinnatvm ... Prostat venalt. vna cvm florib[us] et plantis
ipsis, apvd ipsvm avtorem. Francofurti ad Moenum: impressum apud Anthonium
Kempner sumptib[us] autoris, 1612. Tab: Sweerti & Miller