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• Publications of the Planetary Biology Program for 1977 : a special bibliography (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office ;, 1979), by Richard S. Young, Linda G. Pleasant, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Office, and United States. Office of Space Science (page images at HathiTrust)

• The old English herbals (Longmans, Green and Co., 1922), by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde and Thordarson Collection (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ladies' flower-garden of ornamental annuals (London : William Smith,113, Fleet Street, MDCCCLII [1842], 1842), by Mrs. Loudon, Bradbury & Evans, and Day & Haghe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliographical difficulties in botany. A paper read before the Botanical society of America, at its annual meeting, August 18, 1897, at Toronto, Canada. (1898), by Edward Lee Greene (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Old English Herbals, by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde (Gutenberg ebook)

• Erbario del Matthioli (Presso Nicolò Pezzana, 1712), by Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Nicolò Pezzana, and of Anazarbos Dioscorides Pedanius (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, or, An Herball of Large Extent (London: Printed by T. Cotes, 1640), by John Parkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voynich manuscript
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Vertuose Boke of Distyllacyon of the Waters of All Maner of Herbes (London: L. Andrewe, ca. 1530), by Hieronymus Brunschwig, trans. by Laurence Andrew (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Herball (Printed by Adam Islip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633), by John Gerard, Rembert Dodoens, Richard Whitaker, Joyce Norton, John Payne, Robert Priest, Adam Islip, Thomas Johnson, and Robert Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• English physician enlarged : with three hundred and sixty-nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this : being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation; containing a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself, being sick ... (London : Printed for S. Ballard, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, R. Baldwin, S. Crowder, P. Davey and B. Law, and H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, 1765), by Nicholas Culpeper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Institutiones rei herbariae (E Typographia regia, 1719), by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Antoine de Jussieu, and Imprimerie royale (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erbario del Matthioli (Presso Nicolò Pezzana, 1712), by Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Nicolò Pezzana, and of Anazarbos Dioscorides Pedanius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris (Printed by Hvmfrey Lownes and Robert Yovng, at the signe of the Starre on Bread-street hill, 1629), by John Parkinson, A. Switzer, Robert Young, and Humphrey Lownes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete herbal (London : Published by Richard Evans, No. 8, White's Row, Spitalfields, 1815., 1815), by Nicholas Culpeper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up. ([London : Printed by Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young at the signe of the Starre on Bread-street hill, [1629]]), by John Parkinson and A. Switzer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Rams little Dodeon. (Imprinted at London : By Simon Stafford, dwelling in the Cloth Fayre, at the signe of the three Crownes, 1606), by Rembert Dodoens, Henry Lyte, and William Ram (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Botanicum officinale, or, A compendious herbal : giving an account of all such plants as are now used in the practice of physick, with their descriptions and virtues (Printed for E. Bell ..., J. Senex ..., W. Taylor ..., and J. Osborn ..., 1722), by Joseph Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The grete herball whiche geueth parfyt knowlege and vnderstandyng of all maner of herbes [and] there gracyous vertues whiche god hath ordeyned for our prosperous welfare and helth, for they hele [and] cure all maner of dyseases and sekenesses that fall or mysfortune to all maner of creatoures of god created, practysed by many expert and wyse maysters, as Auicenna [and] other. [et]c. Also it geueth full parfyte vnderstandynge of the booke lately prentyd by me (Peter treueris) named the noble experiens of the vertuous handwarke of surgery. ([Imprentyd at London in Southwarke : By me Peter Treueris, dwellynge in the sygne of the wodows, In the yere of our lorde god. M.D.xxvi. the xxvii. day of Iuly]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Hereafter foloweth the knowledge, properties, and the vertues of herbes. ([London] : Imprynted by me Robert Wyer, dwellynge in saynt Martyns parysshe, at the sygne of saynt Iohn Euangelyst, besyde Charynge Crosse., [1540?]), by Robert Wyer (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Herball (Printed by Adam Islip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633), by John Gerard, Rembert Dodoens, Richard Whitaker, Joyce Norton, John Payne, Robert Priest, Adam Islip, Thomas Johnson, and Robert Davies (page images at HathiTrust)

• Herball (Printed by Adam Islip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1633), by John Gerard, Rembert Dodoens, Richard Whitaker, Joyce Norton, John Payne, Robert Priest, Adam Islip, Thomas Johnson, and Robert Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Culpeper's complete herbal. (Published by Richard Evans, 1816), by Nicholas Culpeper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris (Printed by Hvmfrey Lownes and Robert Yovng, at the signe of the Starre on Bread-street hill, 1629), by John Parkinson, A. Switzer, Robert Young, and Humphrey Lownes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Niewe herball, or historie of plantes (Gerard Dewes, 1578), by Rembert Dodoens, Arnaud Nicolai, Petrus van der Borcht, and Henry Lyte (page images at HathiTrust)

• Botanologia, the English herbal, or history of plants, adorn'd with figures (Printed by L. Dawkes, for H. Rhodes, at the Star, the corner of Bride-Lane, in Fleet Street, and J. Taylor, at the Ship, in Pater-noster-Row, 1710), by William Salmon, Henry Rhodes, John Taylor, and Ichabod Dawks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compleat herbal (Printed for R. Bonwicke, Tim. Goodwin, John Walthoe, S. Wotton, Sam. Manship, Rich. Wilkin, Benj. Tooke, Ralph Smith and Tho. Ward, and are to be sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers Hall, 1719), by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, John Morphew, and John Martyn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Herbals, their origin and evolution, a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670 (University press, 1912), by Agnes Arber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The old English herbals (Longmans, Green and Co., 1922), by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde and Thordarson Collection (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Medicinal plants. Being descriptions with original figures of the principal plants employed in medicine and an account of the characters, properties, and uses of their parts and products of medicinal value. (J. & A. Churchill, 1880), by Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen (page images at HathiTrust)
• De materia medica libri quinque (Apud Weidmannos, 1906), by of Anazarbos Dioscorides Pedanius, Max Wellmann, Sextus, and Crateuas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grosse Zusammenstellung über die Kräfte der bekamten einfachen Heil- und Nahrungsmittel. (Hallberger, 1842), by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad Ibn al-Bayṭār (page images at HathiTrust)
• Culpeper's complete herbal : consisting of a comprehensive description of nearly al herbs with their medicinal properties and directions for compounding the medicines extracted from them. (W. Foulsham & Co., 1926), by Nicholas Culpeper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Saladini de Asculo serenitatis principis Tarẽti physici principalis compendium aromatariorum. (J.A. Barth, 1919), by 15th cent Saladinus and Leo Zimmermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Botanicum officinale, or, A compendious herbal : giving an account of all such plants as are now used in the practice of physick, with their descriptions and virtues (Printed for E. Bell ..., J. Senex ..., W. Taylor ..., and J. Osborn ..., 1722), by Joseph Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The family companion : containing many hundred rare and useful receipts on every branch of domestic economy : embracing cookery, the cure of diseases, the properties and use of the principle plants used as medicine, housewifery, dyeing, coloring, cleaning, purifying, cementing, &c. (Printed for the author, 1846), by J. R. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phytognomonica Io. Baptistae Portae Neapolitani, octo libris contenta : in qvibvs nova, facillimaqve affertur methodus, qua plantarum, animalium, metallorum; rerum denique omnium ex prima extimæ faciei inspectione quiuis abditas vires assequatur : Accedunt ad hæec confirmanda infinita propemodum selectiora secreta, summo labore, temporis dispendio, & impensarum iactura vestigata, explorataque : Nunc primùm ab innumeris mendis; quibus passim Neapolitana editio scatebat, vindicata; cum rerum & verborvm indice locupletissimo. (Sumptibus Ioannis Berthelin, bibliopolae., 1650), by Giambattista della Porta and Ioannis Berthelin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A boke of the propertyes of herbes, the whiche is called an Herbal. (by me Robert Redman, 1940) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wiadomosc ciekawa : każdemu wielce pożyteczna, o skutkach y mocy zboż wszelkich, jarzyn y zioł rożnych, tak ogródowych, iako u Polnych, iakie skutki, y pożytki przynoszą, człowiekowi w rożnych okolicznościach, osobliwie ná poratowanie zdrowia, słuząca, z powaznych autoros, dla wygody ludzkiey krotko zebrana, i z przydatkiem ná końcu niektorych ciekawości do druku podana. (Prymasa, 1769) (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Kreüterbuch (Verlag K. Kölbl, 1975), by Leonhart Fuchs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De plantis exoticis libri duo Prosperi Alpini, philosophi medici, in gymnasium Patauino medicamentorum simplicium professoris ordinarij, & horti medici praefecti : opus completum, editum studio, ac opera Alpini Alpini, phylosophi & medici auctoris filij. (Apud Io. Guerilium, 1627), by Prosper Alpini, Giovanni Guerigli, and Alpino Alpini (page images at HathiTrust)
• The useful family herbal; or, An account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues: and of the drugs, which are produced by vegetables of other countries. With their descriptions, and their uses ... And an appendix, containing, a proposal for the farther seeking into the virtues of English herbs ... The whole intended for the use of families and ... those who are desirous of relieving the distressed sick. (W. Johnston [etc.], 1754), by John Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete herbal (London : Published by Richard Evans, No. 8, White's Row, Spitalfields, 1815., 1815), by Nicholas Culpeper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuel alimentaire des plantes : tant indigênes qu'exotiques, qui peuvent servir de nourriture & de boisson aux différens peuples de la terre : contenant leurs noms triviaux & botaniques, suivant les auteurs les plus célebres, l'utilité qu'on en peut tirer dans la vie animale, & les différentes manieres de les préparer pour la cuisine, l'office, la distillation, &c. (A Paris. : Chez J.P. Costard, libraire, rue Saint-Jean-de Beauvais., MDCCLXXI [1771], 1771), by Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz and Jean-Pierre Costard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zeng guang Ben cao gang mu (880-07 [Shanghai] : Hong bao zhai shu ju, Gong yuan yi ba ba ba nian yin., 1888), by Shizhen Li, Liexian Cai, Xuemin Zhao, and Yuchang Wu (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old English Herbals, by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde (Gutenberg ebook)
• Historie of plantes. (At London [i.e. Antwerp : Printed by Henry Loë, sold] by my Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne, 1578), by Rembert Dodoens and Henry Lyte (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Pambotanologia. Sive Enchiridion botanicum. Or A compleat herball: containing the summe of what hath hitherto been published either by ancient or moderne authors both Galenicall and chymicall, touching trees, shrubs, plants, fruits, flowers, &c. In an alphabeticall order: wherein all that are not in the physick garden in Oxford are noted with asterisks. Shewing their place, time, names, kindes, temperature, vertues, use, dose, danger and antidotes. Together with an [brace] introduction to herbarisme, &c. appendix of exoticks. Universall index of plants: shewing what grow wild in England. / By Robert Lovell St. C.C. Ox. (Oxford : Printed by William Hall, for Ric. Davis, An. 1659), by Robert Lovell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Historia vegetabilium sacra, or, A Scripture herbal wherein all the trees, shrubs, herbs, plants, flowers, fruits &c. mentioned in the Holy Bible, are in an alphabetical order, rationally discoursed of ... / by W. Westmacott. (London : Printed for John Salusbury, 1695), by William Westmacott (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Effect of air pollution on Pinus strobus L. and genetic resistance : a literature review (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Corvallis Research Laboratory ;, 1977), by Henry D. Gerhold, Pennsylvania State University, and United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)

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