Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

New York Botanical Garden, issuing body.

Publication

• Bronx, New York : The New York Botanical Garden ; New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]
• ©2014

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Fraser, Susan M.
• Sellers, Vanessa Bezemer

Description

xxiii, 296 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 30 cm

Summary

The renowned LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden counts among its holdings many of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical and horticultural works ever created. More than eight centuries of knowledge, from the twelfth century to the present, are represented in the library's collection of over one million items. In this sumptuously illustrated volume, international experts introduce us to some of the library's most fascinating works--exceedingly rare books, stunning botanical artworks, handwritten manuscripts, Renaissance herbals, nursery catalogs, explorers' notebooks, and more. The contributors hold these treasures up for close inspection and offer surprising insights into their histories and importance.

Subjects

• Horticulture
• Botanical libraries
• Botanical illustration
• Rare books
• Book collecting
• Botany
• Illustrated books
• Bibliography > Catalogs
• Horticulture > Bibliography > Catalogs
• History
• LuEsther T. Mertz Library
• Botanical libraries > New York (State) > New York
• Botanical illustration > Bibliography > Catalogs
• Rare books > Bibliography > Catalogs
• LuEsther T. Mertz Library Catalogs
• New York (State) > New York
• LuEsther T. Mertz Library History
• Book collecting > New York (State) > New York
• Catalogs
• Botany > Bibliography > Catalogs
• Illustrated books > Bibliography > Catalogs

Genre/Form

• Bibliography – Catalogs.
• Catalogs.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFF 15-1225

ISBN

• 9780300196627
• 0300196628

LCCN

2014931108

OCLC

875644465

Author

New York Botanical Garden, issuing body.

Title

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.

Publisher

Bronx, New York : The New York Botanical Garden ; New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288) and index.

Added Author

Fraser, Susan M., editor.

Sellers, Vanessa Bezemer, editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 15-1225