EditorialCigarette box with gilt leather, Elongated cigarette box with lid of black lacquerware with inlaid gold leather with a decoration of stylized lion dogs (shishi) and peonies in green, red and gold on a beige background in a continuous band over the lid ...
EditorialTwisted cord flower, Strophanthus divaricatus (Chinese strophanthus, Strophanthus divergens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Miss Maund from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botan...
EditorialFly agaric mushroom, Amanita muscaria, with section through mushroom. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botan...
EditorialHexagonal Tile, second half 15th century, Attributed to Egypt, Stonepaste; underglaze painted, Ceramics-Tiles, The design of this tile was strongly influenced by Chinese models, in both composition and color. The Egyptian taste for blue-and-white botan...
EditorialThe Botan Show, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1790, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 15 1/8 ? 10 1/16 in. (38.4 ? 25.6 cm), Prints, Katsukawa Shuncho (Japanese, active ca. 1783?95).
EditorialTwisted cord flower, Strophanthus divaricatus (Chinese strophanthus, Strophanthus divergens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Miss Maund from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botan...
EditorialDwarf wild begonia, Begonia dregei (Drege's begonia, Begonia dregii). Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botan...
EditorialDiesel or kerosene tree, Copaifera langsdorffii. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botan...
EditorialDiesel or kerosene tree, Copaifera langsdorffii. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botan...
EditorialDate palm, Phoenix dactylifera, palm tree, leaf, bulb and ripe fruit. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botan...
EditorialDiesel or kerosene tree, Copaifera langsdorffii. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botan...
EditorialCommon mulberry tree, Morus nigra, with flower, leaf, and ripe fruit. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botan...
EditorialStarfern or palmated hemionitis, Hemionitis palmata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-1865) was an English botan...
EditorialMembranaceous bristle fern, Trichomanes membranacea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-1865) was an English botan...
EditorialRadiator plant or hoary peperomia, Peperomia incana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-1865) was an English botan...
EditorialFly agaric mushroom, Amanita muscaria, with section through mushroom. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botan...
EditorialKitsune no botan or Ranunculus silerifolius. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialDumbcane, Dieffenbachia seguine (Caladium seguinum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-1865) was an English botan...
EditorialCotton lavender or gray santolina, Santolina chamaecyparissus. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botan...
EditorialPink button rose, Rosa pomponia, and double Provence rose, Rosa provincialis. Handcoloured illustration by Pancrace Bessa stipple engraved by Teillard from Charles Malo's "Histoire des Roses," Paris, 1818. A gift book for ladies with 12 miniature botan...
EditorialRoyal knight's-spur or forking larkspur, Delphinium consolida. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botan...