1.  Dodoens, Rembert.  Crvydt-boeck Remberti Dodonaei : volghens sijne laetste verbeteringhe :   met bivoeghsels achter elck capitel, uyt verscheyden cruydt-beschrijvers : item, in'tlaetste  een beschrijvinghe vande indiaensche ghewassen, meest ghetrocken uyt de schriften, van Carolvs Clvsivs / cnu wederom van nieuws oversien ende verbetert
QK41 .D648 1644                                        

He served as professor of botany at Leiden University in the Netherlands. As was the practice of previous works, Dodoens incorporated many of Fuch's woodcuts along with some new illustrations which include the first European reference to the American sunflower (Helianthus annuus).


2.  Flora de la Real Expedicion Botanica del Nuevo Reino de Granada.  Flora de la Real Expedicion Botanica del Nuevo Reino de Granada/Publicada bajo los auspicios de los Gobiernos de Espana y Colombia y merced a la colaboracion entre los Institutos de Cultura Hispanica de Madrid y Bogota. (2 items)
Call No.:  QK265 .R4 t.27
Call No.:  QK265 .R4 t.45, pt. 1
Botany of Columbia

3.  Fuchs, Leonhart.  New kreuterbuch / in welchem nit allein die gantz histori / das ist / namen / gestalt / statt und zeit der wachsung / natur / krafft und wurckung / des meysten theyls er     kreuter so in teutschen vnnd andern landen wachsen / mit dem besten vleiss beschriben / sonder auch aller derselben wurtzel / stengel / bletter / blumen / samen / frucht / und in summa die gantze gestalt / allso artlich vnd kunstlich abgebildet vnd contrafayt ist / das dessgleichen vormals nie gesehen / noch an tag komen. Durch den hochgelerten Leonhart Fuchsen, der artzney doctorn / vnnd derselbigen zu Tubingen lesern ...
Call No.:  580 F951n  1543
The Cushing copy is one of the earliest (1st herbal produced about 1525) and considered a landmark work with its beautiful illustrations.

 

4. Gerard, John.  The Herball, or General Historie of Plantes
Call No.:  581 G356h, 1636
A surgeon by profession, his herbal is still copied by herbalists today.  Pre-Linnean Works.  One of the first depictions of the potato specimen.

5. Hill, John.  The British Herbal: An History of Plants and Trees, Natives of Britain, Cultivated For Use, or Raised for Beauty
Call No.:  QK41 .H6  1755
As the title suggests, this text covers British plant life and uses Linne’s
binomial classification.

6. Linne, Carl von.  Hortus Cliffortianus
Call No.:  QK98 .L77  1737
Carl Linnaeus, or Carl von Linné created the binomial classification still in  use by botanists today.  In 1735 the director of the Dutch East India
Company Georg Clifford, persuaded Linnaeus to start working for him in his botanical garden.  During his stay he was to produce an important botanical work which is of value to taxonomists and historians to this day, the Hortus Cliffortianus, in which he described many new species from living and dried specimens in Clifford's possession.

7. Parkinson, John.  Theatrum botanicum: = The theater of plants. Or, An herball of a large extent 
Call No.:  QK41 .P2 1640a
Pre-Linnean work that describes over 3800 plants and was the most complete and aesthetically beautiful English treatise on plants of the day.




8. Rosser, Celia and George, Alexander. The Banksias
Call No.:  QK 495 .P957 R67  1981
Banksia Pictorial Works