Flora illustrata : great works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden / edited by Susan M. Fraser and Vanessa Bezemer Sellers ; foreword by Gregory Long.

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Corporate Author: New York Botanical Garden (Issuing body)
Other Authors: Fraser, Susan M. (Editor), Sellers, Vanessa Bezemer (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Bronx, New York : New Haven ; London : The New York Botanical Garden ; Yale University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
LuEsther T. Mertz Library > Catalogs.
LuEsther T. Mertz Library > History.
Botanical libraries > New York (State) > New York.
Book collecting > New York (State) > New York.
Botany > Bibliography > Catalogs.
Horticulture > Bibliography > Catalogs.
Botanical illustration > Bibliography > Catalogs.
Illustrated books > Bibliography > Catalogs.
Rare books > Bibliography > Catalogs.
Genre:
Catalogs.
Bibliography
Physical Description:xxiii, 296 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Noble science : building the library collection / Susan M. Fraser
  • European medieval and Renaissance herbals / Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
  • "Plants in their perfection" : the botanical garden and the illustrated book / Therese O'Malley
  • Pleasure gardens in print : recreation and education in the landscape, 1550-1850 / Vanessa Bezemer Sellers
  • Linnaeus and the foundation of modern botany / Gina Douglas
  • New World explorations : Brazil / H. Walter Lack
  • Creating a North American flora / Elizabeth S. Eustis with David Andrews
  • Early American horticultural traditions : gardening with plants from the New World / Mark Laird
  • Toward an American landscape theory / Judith K. Major
  • The horticultural enterprise : markets, mail, and media in nineteenth-century America / Elizabeth S. Eustis
  • "An American Kew" / Elizabeth Barlow Rogers.