Online Exhibits
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The Art of Botanical Illustration - University of Delaware Library Special Collections
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/hort/index.htm
Provides an overview of the history of botanical illustration, including herbals, travel and exploration, scientific botany, women artists, seed catalogs and modern botanicals. Includes images and/or background information for over fifty works.
Curtis's
Botanical Magazine
http://www.nal.usda.gov/curtis
This digital presentation by the National Agricultural
Library of 1,048 plates and 1, 456 pages of text from the first 26 volumes (1787-1807). Images are browseable by common name and searchable by keyword. Herbals
and Early Gardening Books - Patten Collection
http://www.goldcanyon.com/Patten/index.html
Biographical information about authors and descriptions of
text accompany images from a collection of early herbal
and gardening titles from the Doris and Marc Patten
Collection in the library of Arizona State University.
Highlights include William Coles's, The art of simpling
(1657), Culpeper's Complete herbal (1814) and
Parkinson's Paradisi in sole (1629). Browseable by
author and title. Includes subject index.
Medicinal
Spices Exhibit - UCLA Biomedical Library: History &
Special Collections
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/biomed/spice/index.cfm
Includes history of the spice trade, essays on spice
sources and uses throughout history, information on
culinary herbs, and descriptive profiles of 29 spices
accompanied by digitized images from historical text. "Powerful
Grace Lies in Herbs and Plants"
http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/Herbal/index.htm
A digital retrospective of a joint exhibition on herbal medicine presented by the Bernard Becker Medical Library (Washington University School of Medicine) and the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
Including images from the Badianus manuscript,
and Leonhart Fuchs's De historia stirpium.
Rare Books from the Missouri
Botanical Garden Library
http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/
Features 131 volumes from MBG's rare book collection
including over 12,000
botanical illustrations. Browseable by
author, title, or illustration. Searchable by common or
scientific name (illustrations only). Highlights include Köhler's
Medizinal-Pflanzen, Köhler's 1887 guide to medicinal
plants; Elizabeth Blackwell's A curious herbal. Provides links to additional information on
some plants depicted in images and authors.
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