EditorialBalm of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis (Balsam of Gilead tree, Amyris gileadensis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialBalsam of Gilead tree, Commiphora gileadensis. 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 botanical illustrations, but...
EditorialThe principal perfumes of the Hebrews: cinnamon Cinnamomum verum, balsam of Gilead Commiphora gileadensis, nard and Indian nard, Nardostachys jatamansi. After a 12th century Persian manuscript. Chromolithograph from Eugene Rimmel's Le Livre des Parfums...
EditorialCommiphora gileadensis (L.) C. Chr. (Balm of Gilead, Opobalsam): finished drawing of fruiting branch, Luigi Balugani, 17371770, Italian, Formerly James Bruce, 17301794, British, undated, Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, c...
EditorialCommiphora gileadensis (L.) C. Chr. (Balm of Gilead, Opobalsam): finished drawing of fruit, dissected fruits, and leaves, James Bruce, 17301794, British, ca. 1768, Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, She...
EditorialCommiphora gileadensis (L.) C. Chr. (Balm of Gilead, Opobalsam): finished drawing if tree's habit (with roots), Luigi Balugani, 17371770, Italian, after James Bruce, 17301794, British, undated, Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly t...
EditorialBalm of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis (Amyris gileadensis). Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialBalm of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis (Amyris gileadensis). Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialBalm of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis (Balsamodendrum opobalsamum). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialBalm of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis (Balsam of Gilead tree, Amyris gileadensis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialMyrrh or didin, Commiphora myrrha (Balsamodendrum myrrha). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialMyrrh, Commiphora myrrha (Balsamodendron myrrha). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialThe principal perfumes of the Hebrews: cinnamon Cinnamomum verum, balsam of Gilead Commiphora gileadensis, nard and Indian nard, Nardostachys jatamansi. After a 12th century Persian manuscript. Chromolithograph from Eugene Rimmel's Le Livre des Parfums...
EditorialBalsam of Gilead tree, Commiphora gileadensis. 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 botanical illustrations, but...
EditorialBalm or balsam of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (177...
EditorialBalsam of Mecca, Commiphora gileadensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-182...