EditorialWater avens, Geum rivale. 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.
EditorialWater avens, Geum rivale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1793.
EditorialWater avens, Geum rivale. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 with 500 plates...
EditorialLa Benoite des Alpes. Alpine avens, Geum montanum, and Doris longwing butterfly, Heliconius doris. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant...
Editorial'Gariofilata.' Possibly clove root (radix caryophyllata) or Herba Benedicta, or Blessed Herb, or Avens (Geum Urbanum). Coloured drawings of plants, copied from nature in the Roman States, by Gerardo Cibo. Vol. I. Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Physician, of S...
EditorialIllustrations of English herbs. Avence [wood avens or herb bennet]; averoigne [southern-wood]; affadille [daffodil]; accedula [sour-dock or crowfoot]; anece [dill]; betoigne [betony]; bugle [bugle]; centrum galli [cock's spur or clary]; centory [centau...
EditorialLa Benoite des Alpes. Alpine avens, Geum montanum, and Doris longwing butterfly, Heliconius doris. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant...
EditorialWater avens, Geum rivale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1793.
EditorialWater avens, Geum rivale. 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.
EditorialHerb Bennet or wood avens, Geum urbanum. 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 (1775~1840) w...
EditorialWater avens, Geum rivale. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 with 500 plates...
EditorialWood avens, Geum urbanum. 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 (1757-1822) drew over 2,...
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