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RESEARCH GUIDES

STEM in Rare Books

A guide to works on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in Rare Books.

16th Century

Plantarvm Effigies by Leonhart Fuchs
Call Number: QK41.F83 1549
Publication Date: 1549
Lyon: Chez Balthazar Arnoullet, 1549.
Theophrasti Philosophi Clarissimi De Historia Plantarum, Libri IX Cum Decimi Principio; & De Causis, Siue, Earum Generatione, Libri VI by Theophrastus
Call Number: QK41.T45
Publication Date: 1552
Lugduni: Apud Theobaldum Paganum, 1552.

17th Century

Phytognomonica Io. Baptistæ Portæ... Octo Libris Contenta; in Gvibvs Nova, Facilimaqve Affertvr Methodvs, Qua Plantarum, Animalium, Metallorum; Rerum Denique Omnium ex Prima Extimæ Faciei Inspectione Quiuis Abditas Vires Assequatur... Nunc Primùm ab Innum by Giambattista della Porta
Call Number: QK41.P6783 1608
Publication Date: 1608
Francofvrti, apud N. Hoffmannum; impensis I. Rhodii, 1608.
The Herball, or General Historie of Plantes. by John Gerard, Robert Davies, and Thomas Johnson
Call Number: QK41.G3 1636
Publication Date: 1636
London, Printed by A. Islip, J. Norton and R. Whitakers, 1636.
Horti Malabarici Pars Prima [-duodecima & ultima]: Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, Brachmanum Characteribus Nominibusque Expressis, Adjecta Florum, Fructuum, Seminumque Nativae Magnitudinis Vera Delineatione, Colorum Viriumque Accurata Descriptione... by Hendrik van Reede tot Drakestein
Call Number: QK358.R4
Publication Date: 1673-1703
Amstelaedami: Sumptibus Viduae Joannis van Someren, Haeredum Joannis van Dyck, Henrici & Viduae Theodori Boom, 1673-1703.
The Anatomy of Plants. With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants, and Several Other Lectures, Read Before the Royal Society by Nehemiah Grew
Call Number: QK41.G74 1682
Publication Date: 1682
[London] Printed by W. Rawlins, for the author, 1682.

18th Century

Familles des Plantes by Michel Adanson
Call Number: QK45.A2
Publication Date: 1763
Paris, Vincent, 1763.
American Husbandry, Containing an Account of the Soil, Climate, Production and Agriculture of the British Colonies in North-America and the West-Indies; With Observations on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Settling in Them... by an American
Call Number: S441.A5
Publication Date: 1775
London, J. Bew, 1775.

19th Century

Phytologia; or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening. With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and With an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough by Erasmus Darwin
Call Number: QK45.D27 1800
Publication Date: 1800
London, J. Johnson, 1800.
A Flora of North America. Illustrated by Coloured Figures, Drawn from Nature by William P.C. Barton
Call Number: QK112.B29
Publication Date: 1821-23
Philadelphia, M. Carey & Sons, 1821-23.
Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing Generic and Specific Descriptions of the Indigenous Plants and Common Cultivated Exotics, Growing North of the Gulf of Mexico by Amos Eaton
Call Number: QK110.E13 1829
Publication Date: 1829
Albany: Printed by Websters and Skinners, 1829.
The Ivy, a Monograph; Comprising the History, Uses, Characteristics, and Affinities of the Plant, and a Descriptive List of All the Garden Ivies in Cultivation by Shirley Hibberd
Call Number: SB413.I84H53 1872
Publication Date: 1872
London, Groombridge & Sons, 1872.
Guide to the Flora of Washington and Vicinity by Lester F. Ward
Call Number: Q11.U6 no.22
Publication Date: 1881
Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1881.