Main entry:

New York Botanical Garden, author, issuing body. aut isb

Title & Author:

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.

Publication:

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

Description:

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

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. The library of the New York Botanical Garden. Noble science : building the library collection / Susan M. Fraser -- Part II. Great herbals, flower books, and garden prints. 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 -- Part III. Groundbreaking works on botanical discovery. 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 -- Part IV. Celebrated works on American gardening and horticulture. 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 -- Part V. The landscape of the New York Botanical Garden. "An American Kew" / Elizabeth Barlow Rogers.
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award, 2015

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 more than one million cataloged 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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780300196627 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300196628 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

LuEsther T. Mertz Library Catalogs.
LuEsther T. Mertz Library History.
LuEsther T. Mertz Library.
Botanical libraries New York (State) New York.
Book collecting New York (State) New York.
Botany Bibliography Catalogs.
Horticulture Bibliography Catalogs.
Botanical illustration Bibliography Catalogs.
Illustrated books Bibliography Catalogs.
Rare books Bibliography Catalogs.
Books, Illustrated history
Botany history
Libraries history
Library Collection Development history
Rare Books history
Botanique Bibliothèques New York (État) New York.
Bibliophilie New York (État) New York.
Illustration botanique Bibliographie Catalogues.
Livres illustrés Bibliographie Catalogues.
Livres rares Bibliographie Catalogues.
Book collecting
Botanical illustration
Botanical libraries
Botany
Horticulture
Illustrated books
Rare books
Pflanzenbuch
Illustration
Arbeiten auf Papier
Pflanzen
New York (N.Y.)
New York (State) New York
plantkunde
botany
bloeiende planten
flowering plants
zeldzame boeken
rare books
illustraties
illustrations
botanische tuinen
botanical gardens
bibliographies
Ornamental Plants
Sierplanten

Form/genre:

Catalog
Bibliography
catalogs (documents)
bibliographies.
Bibliographies
Catalogs
History
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Fraser, Susan M., editor.
Sellers, Vanessa Bezemer, editor.
Long, Gregory (Gregory R.), writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289053
Call No.: BIB 231255
Status: Available