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• Botanical drawing
• Flower painting and illustration
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• Illustration, Botanical

• Temple of Flora: or Garden of the Botanist, Poet, Painter and Philosopher (London: Robert Thornton, 1812), by Robert John Thornton (page images at Wisconsin)
• Hortus Cliffortianus, plantas exhibens quas in hortis tam vivis quam siccis, Hartecampi in Hollandia ([s.n.], 1737), by Carl von Linné, William Borrer, Harley Harris Bartlett, Georg Dionysius Ehret, and Jan Wandelaar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chigusa no hana. ([Tanaka Jihei], 1889), by Bairei Kōno (page images at HathiTrust)
• A grammar of botany; containing an explanation of the system of Linnæus, and the terms of botany, with botanical exercises, for the use of schools and students ... (J. Eastburn and co., 1818), by Robert John Thornton and James Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The guide to flower painting in water colors (G. Rowney, 1870), by George F. Rosenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flowers of Milton (s.n.], 1846), by Jane Elizabeth Giraud and John Milton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Démonstrations élémentaires de botanique : Contenant les principes généraux de cette science, les fondemens des méthodes, & les élémens de la physique des végétaux ... (Bruyset ainé & c., 1796), by Marc Antoine Louis Claret de Fleurieu de La Tourrette and François Rozier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yama sachi (Ōsakaya Heizaburō, 1765), by Ryūsui Katsuma and Shūkoku (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual on flower painting in oil colours from nature : with instructions for preliminary practice : also a section on flower painting in water colours, etc. ... (Winsor & Newton, 1888), by William J. Muckley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temple of Flora (Published by Dr. Thornton, 1812), by Robert John Thornton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drawing album (Columbia University Libraries, 1848), by Mary L. Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roses and how to paint them with water colors, oil colors, pastel colors, china colors, fresco colors, silk colors, and textile. (D.M. Campana, 1944), by D. M. Campana (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Flowers and how to paint them (Cassell, 1891), by Maud Naftel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ware collection of Blaschka glass models of plants in the botanical museum of Harvard University (Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1939), by Harvard University. Botanical Museum. Ware Collection, Rudolph Blaschka, Leopold Blaschka, and Oakes Ames (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay on a new theory of colours, and on composition in general : illustrated by coloured blots shewing the application of the theory to composition of flowers, landscapes, figures, &c. (London : Printed by J. Barfield, Wardour-Street, for T. Gardiner, Princes-Street, Cavendish-Square, W. Miller, Albemarle-Street, and I. and A. Arch, Cornhill, 1808., 1808), by Mary Gartside, John Barfield, William Miller, Thomas Gardiner, and John and Arthur Arch (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de peindre les fleurs a l'aquarelle : précédé d'un traité de botanique élémentaire, et orné d'un choix des plus belles fleurs (Paris : F. Lequien, libraire-éditeur, Quai des Augustins, no 47, 1837., 1837), by Augustine Dufour, Pierre Joseph Redouté, F. Lequien, and Imprimerie de Casimir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peintres et jardiniers (Imprimerie Tourangelle, 1909), by Gabriel Viaud-Bruant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Popular drawing copies (Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, La Belle Sauvage Yard, London, E.C. :, 1872), by Charles Ryan and Petter & Galpin Cassell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A grammar of botany : containing an explanation of the system of Linnæus, and the terms of botany, with botanical exercises, for the use of schools and students ... (J. Eastburn and co., 1818), by Robert John Thornton and James Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atlas des plantes de jardins et d'appartements exotiques et et Européennes : 320 planches coloriées inédites, dessinées d'après nature représentant 370 plantes, accompagnées d'un texte explicatif : donnant la description, l'origine, le mode de culture, de multiplication et les usages des fleurs les plus généralement cultivées (Librairie des Sciences Naturelles, Paul Klincksieck, éditeur, 1896), by D. Bois (page images at HathiTrust)

• Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde gebräuchlichen Gewächse, wie auch solcher, welche mit inhen verwechselt werden können (Auf kosten des Verfassers, 1805), by Friedrich Gottlob Hayne, Fr. Klotzsch, Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg, and Johann Friedrich Brandt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers and their kindred thoughts (Longman, 1848), by M. A. Bacon, Owen Jones, Henry Noel Humphreys, Edward La Trobe Bateman, England) Longmans & Company (London, and Edmonds & Remnants (page images at HathiTrust)

• Flora Azorica : quam ex collectionibus schedisque Hochstetteri patris et filii (Bonnae :, 1844), by Moritz Seubert, Karl Christian Friedrich Hochstetter, and Christian Ferdinand Hochstetter (page images at HathiTrust)

• List of botanical drawings in water colours : in the collection of the State Botanical Gardens, Lal Bagh, Bangalore, 1907. (Higginbotham, 1907), by Lalbagh State Horticultural Gardens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)
• Nürnbergische Hesperides (Zu finden bey Johann Andreä Endters seel. Sohn & Erben, 1708), by Johann Christoph Volkamer, Friedrich Christian Krieger, Friedrich Paul Lindner, Hieronymus Böllmann, Johann Adam Delsenbach, Johann Christoph Dehne, Tobias Gabriel Beck, Joseph de Montalegre, Wilhelm Pfann, Johann Christoph Steinberger, Ludwig Christoph Glotsch, Paul Decker, and Johann Andreas Endters seel. Söhne (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)

• The Beauties of Flora, With Botanic and Poetic Illustrations: Being a Selection of Flowers Drawn From Nature Arranged Emblematically, With Directions for Colouring Them (1834), by Eliza Eve Gleadall (page images at Wisconsin)
• The paradisus Londinensis : containing plants cultivated in the vicinity of the metropolis. (Printed by D. N. Shury, and published by William Hooker, 1805), by R. A. Salisbury and William Hooker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The gallery of Marianne North's paintings of plants and their homes, Royal gardens, Kew. Descriptive catalogue (Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1886), by W. Botting Hemsley and Kew Royal Botanic Gardens (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Floral cabinet and magazine of exotic botany (William Smith, 1837), by Frederic Westcott and G. B. Knowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flower painting in water colours (Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1880), by F. Edward Hulme (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of ... (s.n.], 1815), by Sydenham Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ornamental flower-garden and shrubbery (James Ridgway, 1829), by John Lindley and Sydenham Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular drawing copies (Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, La Belle Sauvage Yard, London, E.C. :, 1872), by Charles Ryan and Petter & Galpin Cassell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Botanische und anatomische abbildungen des mittelaters. ([Leipzig, 1857), by Ludwig Choulant (page images at HathiTrust)

• Yama sachi (Ōsakaya Heizaburō, 1765), by Ryūsui Katsuma and Shūkoku (page images at HathiTrust)

• Indian summer : autumn poems and sketches (E.P. Dutton, 1883), by Louise Clarkson Whitelock (page images at HathiTrust)

• The art album of New Zealand flora : being a systematic and popular description of the native flowering plants of New Zealand and the adjacent islands (Bock & Cousins, 1889), by E. H. Featon and Sarah Featon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wild flowers of the Holy Land (James Nisbet, 1876), by Hanna Zeller, Edward Atkinson, and H. B. Tristram (page images at HathiTrust)

• Curtis's Botanical Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Botanical magazine (Lewis & Brown., 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Botanical magazine (Academic Press [etc.], 1801), by O. Stapf, D. Prain, William Jackson Hooker, Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Bentham-Moxon Trust, and Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The botany of the Roraima expedition of 1884 (1887), by Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn and Joseph Dalton Hooker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Groups of Flowers: Drawn and Accurately Coloured After Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist (1817), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
• A New Treatise on Flower Painting, Or Every Lady Her Own Drawing Master (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, J. Booth, J, 1818), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
• The young artist's guide to flower drawing, and painting in water colours : with instructions and examples (London : Published by J. Watson, 7, Vere Street, Bond Street, 1820., 1820), by W. H. Edwards and J. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Andrews's lessons in flower painting (London : Charles Tilt ; Edinburgh : John Menzies ; Philadelphia : Thomas Wardle, 1836., 1836), by James Andrews, Charles Tilt, and Graf & Soret (page images at HathiTrust)
• A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of flower painting in water colours. (London : Published by T. Clay, no. 18, Ludgate-Hill, 1824., 1824), by François Louis Thomas Francia, Thomas Clay, and Whittingham and Rowland (page images at HathiTrust)

• The young artist's guide to flower drawing, and painting in water colours : with instructions and examples (London : Published by J. Watson, 7, Vere Street, Bond Street, 1820., 1820), by W. H. Edwards and J. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Andrews's lessons in flower painting (London : Charles Tilt ; Edinburgh : John Menzies ; Philadelphia : Thomas Wardle, 1836., 1836), by James Andrews, Charles Tilt, and Graf & Soret (page images at HathiTrust)
• A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of flower painting in water colours. (London : Published by T. Clay, no. 18, Ludgate-Hill, 1824., 1824), by François Louis Thomas Francia, Thomas Clay, and Whittingham and Rowland (page images at HathiTrust)

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