Botany

The Rare Book Room includes…

• Herbarum vivæ eicones ad nature imitationem by Hans Weiditz, illustrated by Otto Brunfels (1530)
• Kreutterbůch. Von aller Kreutter, Gethier, Gesteyne unnd Metal, Natur Nutz, unnd Gebrauch. Distillier Zeug und Bericht, allerhandt kostbarliche Wasser zubrennen, halten und gebrauchen by Eucharius Rösslin (1535)
• Henrick Rheede’s Hortus Indicus Malabaricus (1678)
• Linnaeus’s General Plantarum (1742)
• Linnaeus’s multi-volume General System of Nature (1806)
• Mrs. Van Rensselaer’s Art Out of Doors: Hints on Good Taste in Gardening (1893)
• Medical Botany: Containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants by William Woodville (1832)
• American Woods by R.B. Hough (1888)
• A first edition of Edith Wharton’s Italian Gardens, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish (1902)
• Flora of West Virginia by Earl L. Core (1978)