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Flora Illustrata: Great Works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden (Yale University Press; $50).
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Nicolas Robert’s hand-colored engraving of a mandrake from Denis Dodart’s 1701 book Recueil des Plantes.
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The parterres and arbors of the renowned garden of a German burgomaster are depicted in the frontispiece of Florilegium Renovatum et Auctum, a 1641 book by Johann Theodor de Bry.
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An aloe plant in an elaborate pot is illustrated in Johann Weinmann’s 18th-century book Phytanthoza Iconographia.
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Grasshoppers, flies, spiders, snails, and honeybees cavort across a 1475 hand-colored woodcut from German author Konrad von Megenberg’s Hye Nach Volget das Puch der Natur.
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An image of a sappanwood tree appears in Plants of the Coast of Coromandel (1795–1819), an important book that brought the plants of India to the attention of the Western world.
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Indian botanical artist Vishnupersaud drew a Ceylon swamp lily for Nathaniel Wallich’s Plantae Asiaticae Rariores, which was published in 1830–32. Artist Maxim Gauci transformed it into a colorful lithograph.
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Bauer’s Galeandra, an orchid from James Bateman’s 1837–43 The Orchidaceae of Mexico & Guatemala.
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Artist and author Berthe Hoola van Nooten traveled the world in search of exotic plants to depict in drawings and paintings. This example is a purple mangosteen from her 1880 book Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages.
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A 17th-century rendering of the Terrace of One Hundred Fountains at Italy’s Villa d’Este.
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An aerial view of the English royal palace Hampton Court, whose gardens were planned by garden designer Daniel Marot. The image is from Britannia Illustrata, which was published in 1714–17.
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Laborers transport buckets of water through an elegant Austrian garden, as seen in Salomon Kleiner’s Viereleÿ Vorstellungen, circa 1730.
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An Italian architect’s elaborate proposal for a garden in the state of Hesse-Kassel, from Delineatio Montis a Metropoli Hasso-Cassellana (1706).
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Laborers transport potted trees in an Austrian topiary garden, as seen in Salomon Kleiner’s Viereleÿ Vorstellungen, circa 1730.
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Vue de Tour Porcellaine a Nancking en Chine, a Chinese landscape depicted in a colored engraving from a 1673 English book.
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Suggestions for sculpting hedges or topiary, from a 17th-century booklet by German gardener Johann Royer.
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A garden designed for the education of children from the 1663 German book Mannhafter Kunst-Spiegel.
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Birds join a mythical hydra in an 18th-century book by Albertus Seba.
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An illustration of a Brazilian palm from the 1903 book Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium.
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“Vegetable People,” a comical 1880s series of chromolithograph cards by Jerome B. Rice & Co.
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One of the illustrations in François-André Michaux’s 1810s book Histoire des Arbres Forestiers de l’Amérique Septentrionale is a portrait of the leaves and acorns of Bartram’s oak.
