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1. Twenty lessons on British mosses, or, First steps to a knowledge of that beautiful tribe of plants / by William Gardiner.

Twenty lessons on British mosses, or, First steps to a knowledge of that beautiful tribe of plants / by William Gardiner.
Creator:
Gardiner, William, 1809?-1852
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
46 p. : samples ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey : alphabetically and systematically arranged.

Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey : alphabetically and systematically arranged.
Creator:
Sinclair, George, 1786–1834
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 42 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Wild flowers worth notice : being a selection from the British flora of some of our native plants, which are most attractive from their beauty, uses, or associations / by Mrs. Lankester ; fully illustrated by J.E. Sowerby.

Wild flowers worth notice : being a selection from the British flora of some of our native plants, which are most attractive from their beauty, uses, or associations / by Mrs. Lankester ; fully illustrated by J.E. Sowerby.
Creator:
Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
Date:
1861
Physical Description:
xiv, 138, [2] p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. A synoptical compend of British botany : (from the class Monandria to polygamia inclusive) arranged after the Linnean system : and containing the essential characters of the genera, the specific characters, English names, places of growth, soil and situation, colour of the flowers, times of flowering, duration, and references to figures / by John Galpine.

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Creator:
Galpine, John, 1769–1806
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
viii, [194] p. in various pagings : ill ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. British ferns : their classification, structure, and functions : together with the best methods for their cultivation / by Mrs. Lankester. ; author of "Wild flowers worth notice.".

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Creator:
Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
Date:
1884
Physical Description:
[4], 127, [1] p., 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Proserpina : studies of wayside flowers, while the air was yet pure among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which my father knew / by John Ruskin ...

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Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1879
Physical Description:
iv, [2], 287 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The history of Buxton : and visitor's guide to the curiosities of the Peak, including a descriptive itinerary of excursions usually made, and a set of botanical tables exhibiting the places of growth, &c. of the most remarkable plants found wild in the neighbourhood of Buxton / by A. Jewitt ...

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Creator:
Jewitt, A. (Arthur)
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
vii, [2], 12-222, xxvii, [3] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Common wayside flowers. By Thomas Miller. Illustrated by Birket Foster.

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Creator:
Miller, Thomas, 1807–1874
Date:
1860
Physical Description:
5 p. ., 3-185, [1] p. col. ill. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Hardy ferns : how I collected and cultivated them / by Nona Bellairs ; with a frontispiece.

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Creator:
Bellairs, Nona Maria Stephenson
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
128, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Ferny combes : a ramble after ferns in the glens and valleys of Devonshire / by Charlotte Chanter.

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Creator:
Chanter, Charlotte, 1828–1882
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
118 p., VIII, [1] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The fern garden, how to make, keep, and enjoy it, or, Fern culture made easy / by Shirley Hibberd ; illustrated with eight coloured plates and forty wood engravings.

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Creator:
Hibberd, Shirley, 1825–1890
Date:
1869
Physical Description:
vi, 148, [6] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The marine botanist : an introduction to the study of the British sea-weeds : containing descriptions of all the species, and the best method of preserving them / by Isabella Gifford.

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Creator:
Gifford, Isabella
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
xl, 357 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Album of drawings of mosses.

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Creator:
Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
Date:
ca. 1844?
Physical Description:
1 volume (60 leaves, some blank) ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A plain and easy account of the British ferns : together with their classification, arrangement of genera, structure, and functions ; and a glossary of technical and other terms / edited by Mrs. Lankester ; with illustrations.

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Creator:
Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
Date:
[1859]
Physical Description:
[5], viii-xv, [1], 108, [4] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The flowering plants and ferns of Great Britain. By Anne Pratt ...

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Creator:
Pratt, Anne, 1806–1893
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
5 v. front. (v. 1) col. plates. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Field flowers : a handy-book for the rambling botanist, suggesting what to look for and where to go in the out-door study of British plants / by Shirley Hibberd, author of 'The Fern Garden,' 'Rustic adornments,' etc. etc. ; illustrated with eight coloured plates and ninety wood engravings.

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Creator:
Hibberd, Shirley, 1825–1890
Date:
MDCCCLXXVI [1876]
Physical Description:
iv, 156 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Common wayside flowers. By Thomas Miller. With illustrations by Birket Foster. Printed in colours by Edmund Evans.

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Creator:
Miller, Thomas, 1807–1874
Date:
[1870?]
Physical Description:
190, [1] p. (incl. col. front.) col. ill. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Nature in Britain; introduction by Geoffrey Grigson, edited by W. J. Turner. With 48 plates in colour and 132 illustrations in black & white.

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Creator:
Turner, W. J. (Walter James), 1889–1946
Date:
1946
Physical Description:
324 p. incl. illus. (incl. ports.) col. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library