The Art of Flower and Garden Photography

Clive Nichols

Lavishly illustrated with Clive Nicols' own award-winning work, this is an inspirational book as well as a practical one. Aimed at the many photographers who find their greatest ....

Artists' Kew

An Exhibition of Contemporary Works

Edited by J Cloake and R Strong

Reveals the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in charming detail as well as in its full natural beauty by the Thames. The art is about people too: their interaction with those ....

Benjamin Smith Barton

Naturalist and Physician in Jeffersonian America

Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan

Although Barton was a naturalist by inclination, medicine was to be his livelihood. The many pupils he helped prepare for the expanding young nation sometimes attained greater ....

Bloom

Ron Van Dongen

In "Bloom", respected floral photographer Ron van Dongen works in colour for the first time. His bold still-lifes of richly coloured flowers on solid backgrounds delight and ....

The Book of Plants

The Complete Plates

Basilius Besler, Klaus Walter Littger and Werner Dressendorfer

A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, the Book of Plants is in a class of its own when it comes to the variety ....

Botanicals

Butterflies & Insects

Leslie K Overstreet

Including more than three centuries of drawings culled from the rare books library of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, each page in Botanicals explodes with ....

Botanical Illustration

Painting with Watercolours

Siriol Sherlock

Sherlock covers the various materials as well as the more traditional and more experimental techniques. The authoritative text is complemented by stunning ....

Botanical Illustration

Valerie Oxley

Offers an introduction to the marrying of art and science in the aesthetic and accurate portrayal of plant material. This book deals with the practical art and the related ....

Botanical Illustration Course with the Eden Project

Rosie Martin and Meriel Thurstan

Devised by experienced teacher and award-winning artist Rosie Martin, this course is based on the botanical illustration course taught at the highly acclaimed Eden Project ....

The Botanists and Mountain Guides of Snowdonia

Dewi Jones

An account of the characters involved and the plants found during an era when plant-hunters walked the mountains of Snowdonia. ....

The Botanical Palette

Colour for the Botanical Painter

Margaret Stevens

This superbly illustrated book looks specifically at one of the most important aspects of botanical painting: how to achieve the right colours. ....

Botanical Riches

Stories of Botanical Exploration

Richard Aitken

The botanical riches of this book are twofold. This is firstly a book about plants themselves, and the story of their exploration, appreciation, introduction and ....

The British Museum Flowers

Marjorie Caygill

Flowers have been very lucky in the world of art. Those who have used them as inspiration for painting, drawing or decoration have clearly enjoyed their subject, thus ....

Colors of the Tropics

Eden on the Equator

Berndt Fischer

An opulently illustrated book about the numerous forms of life in the tropics: glowing photographs make the orchids, ferns, and parrots seem close enough to touch. Captivating ....

Contemporary Botanical Illustration with the Eden Project

Challenging Colour and Texture

Rosie Martin and Meriel Thurstan

Contemporary Botanical Illustration covers some of the unusual colours that can be included in botanical art, from black flowers and plants - including seaweed - to green, ....

The Drawings of Antoine Nicolas Duchesne for his Natural History of the Gourds

Harry S Paris

For the first time, this book makes available high-resolution reproductions of all the 258 paintings of gourds of the genus Cucurbita, figuring about a hundred ....

Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature

The Construction of Eighteenth-Century Botanical Illustrations

Kärin Nickelsen

This book is the first in-depth study of eighteenth-century botanical illustrations, and its findings offer a completely new insight into the working practices of the botanists ....

Drawing and Painting Plants

Christina Brodie

This is a botanically based (as opposed to free-form drawing) practical manual on how to paint a vast range of plants in watercolour and other media. ....

Emily Dickinson's Herbarium

A Facsimile Edition

Emily Dickinson

In a letter from 1845, the 14-year-old Emily Dickinson asked her friend Abiah Root if she had started collecting flowers and plants for a herbarium: "it would be such a ....

Flowers of the Amazon Forests

The Botanical Art of Margaret Mee

Margaret Mee

Margaret Mee must rank as one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. She was an intrepid explorer of the Brazilian rainforest and an outstanding botanical ....

Flora: The Erbario Miniato and Other Drawings (Two Volume Set)

Edited by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and Fabio Garbari

Over two hundred of the botanical drawings catalogued in these two volumes are found in the Erbario Miniato, an early seventeenth-century herbal that formed part of the Paper ....

Flower Hunters

Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin

The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search of extraordinary plants from the middle of the seventeenth ....

Florilegium Imperiale

Botanical Illustrations for Francis I. of Austria

H Walter Lack

Francis I of Austria, the last monarch to rule over the Holy Roman Empire, was obsessed with flowers. His imperial gardens, where he realized his passion for flowers, remain ....

Floral Paintings of Popular Garden Flowers

James Andrews

Nineteenth-century botanical illustration by the renowned Victorian artist James Andrews. ....

The Frampton Flora

Richard Mabey

"The Frampton Flora" documents a beautiful collection of Victorian botanical paintings discovered in the attic of Frampton Court in Gloucestershire over a century after they ....

Fruit

Edible, Inedible, Incredible

Wolfgang Stuppy and Rob Kesseler

Fruit. The word conjures up mouthwatering memories of crunchy apples, luscious strawberries, sweet bananas, succulent melons and juicy pineapples. The well-travelled ....

Garden Photographer of the Year

Collection 01

This beautiful book showcases the shortlisted and winning photographs from the eighth Garden Photographer of the Year competition. ....

The Ladyslipper and I

G Ledyard Stebbins

The Ladyslipper and I is the autobiography of G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906-2000), widely regarded as one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of the twentieth ....

Landscape Photographer of the Year

C Waite

Following in the outstanding success of the first edition, this wonderful celebration of landscape photography shortlists the winning photographs from the second Landscape ....

Listen to the Trees

Don MacCaskill

Don MacCaskill was one of Scotland's foremost naturalists. This book gives an account of his first year at Ardgarten, as a young forester newly out of college. It is also an ....

The Lost World of James Smithson

Science, Revolution and the Birth of the Smithsonian

Heather Ewing

The first biography of James Smithson, the Englishman who bequeathed his fortune to establish Washington's Smithsonian Institute - the largest museum and research complex ....

Macro Photography for Gardeners and Nature Lovers

The Essential Guide to Digital Techniques

Alan Detrick

Gardeners and nature lovers delight in taking pictures-especially close-ups of flowers, butterflies, and insects. And though advances in digital camera technology have made ....

Margaret Mee - Marianne North: Exploratrices Intrepides

Oevres des Collections des Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Ruth A Stiff and Laura Ponsonby

A richly illustrated catalogue, produced to accompany an exhibition of works by the two talented botanical artists and travellers on display at the Mona Bismarck Foundation in ....

The Medieval Flower Book

Celia Fisher

Focuses on one hundred major varieties of flowers and plants that appear in medieval manuscripts and provides intriguing explanations of their uses, history and symbolism. ....

Das Moller-Florilegium

Dietrich Roth

Monkey Puzzle Man

Archibald Menzies, Plant Hunter

James McCarthy

Archibald Menzies was one of a legion of intrepid Scots plant collectors in the 18th and 19th centuries who roamed the world, and by a combination of toughness and knowledge, ....

Moore at Kew

Anita Feldman and Suzanne Eustace

This book marks an exhibition of 28 large sculptures placed throughout Kew's unique 300 acre World Heritage Site landscape, making this the first exhibition of its kind ever to ....

Mr Marshal's Flower Book

Being a Compendium of the Flowers Portraits of Alexander Marshal Esq.

Alexander Marshal

The exquisite Florilegium of Alexander Marshal is the only surviving example of a flower-book painted by an English artist in the seventeenth century, and is an ....

The Natural World of Lewis and Clark

David A Dalton

On their journey westward, Lewis and Clark demonstrated an amazing ability to identify the new plants and animals they encountered, and their observations enriched science's ....

A New Flowering

1000 Years of Botanical Art

S Sherwood

One thousand years of botanical art was displayed in the Ashmolean's leading exhibition of 2005, providing the unique opportunity to compare illustrations by contemporary ....

A Passion for Systems

Linnaeus and the Dream of Order in Nature

Helene Schmitz and Nils Uddenberg

Linnaeus introduced his pioneering sexual systems for plants for the first time in 1735. His contemporaries were shocked by Linnaeus' frank comparisons with the sexual ....

Photographing Flowers

Inspiration, Equipment, Technique

Sue Bishop

Split into three comprehensive sections, the book covers technical matters, such as choice of equipment, lighting, exposure and depth of field; colour theory, including the ....

Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology

Edited by Jean Beagle Ristaino

Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology is a biographical book on the early women scientists who led the way for others in the field of plant pathology. These untold stories about ....

Plants and their Application to Ornament

A Nineteenth-Century Design Primer

Eugene Grasset and David P Becker

This reproduction of Plants and Their Application to Ornament, first published in 1897, presents each of twenty-four different flowering plants in three arts-and-crafts-style ....

Plants and Empire

Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World

Londa Schiebinger

Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic ....

A Plantsman's Paradise

Travels in China

Roy Lancaster

This book successfully combines a most enjoyable and detailed account of the well-known author's many journeys through China. First and foremost, Travels in China provides a ....

The Plundered Forests

John Blower

John Blower's fourth book describes his time spent in the 1970s in South-East Asia working on a UN funded project to save the endangered forests and wildlife. The ....

Pollen

The Hidden Sexuality of Flowers

Rob Kesseler and Madeline Harley

This book is the result of the shared fascination of an artist and a scientist with the perfect design of organisms too small to be seen without a microscope - pollen grains, ....

Portfolio of a Botanical Artist

Pauline Dean

Pauline Dean is a well established RHS Gold Medal Botanical Artist, having had her work published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine and The New Plantsman, and included in the ....

Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah & Govindoo

HJ Nolte

This trilogy forms the second in a series of illustrated works devoted to collections of botanical drawings made by Indian artists for Scottish surgeon-botanists, held in the ....

Seeds

Time capsules of life

Rob Kesseler and Wolfgang Stuppy

Seeds are the most complex organs plants ever produce. A major keystone in the evolution of land plants, the first seeds appeared some 360 million years ago. Since then they ....

The Temple of Flora

Robert John Thornton and Werner Dressendorfer

The year 1799 witnessed the first installment of a work that has gone down in history as one of the most remarkable books of botanical plates ever published. Two centuries have ....

The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum, 1682-1749

Sam Segal, Mariel Ellens and Joris Dik

The Amsterdam artist Jan van Huysum (1682-1749) is one of the most important painters of fruit and flowers of all time. His work conveys unsurpassed craftsmanship, a deep ....

Treasures of Botanical Art

Icons from the Shirley Sherwood and Kew Collections

Shirley Sherwood and Martyn Rix

This book marks the inaugural exhibition of the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew, which opens in April 2008. Extensively illustrated and elegantly designed, ....

Voyages of Discovery

Three Centuries of Natural History Exploration

Tony Rice

This is a visual record of some of the most significant and beautiful discoveries in the history of natural science explorations. The photographs and artwork span three ....

Watercolour Flower Portraits

Billy Showell

Presents several watercolour flower portraits. This illustrated book contains information on drawing and painting techniques, colour mixing and composition. It offers ....

William Roxburgh

The Founding Father of Indian Botany

Tim Robinson

Considered by his 18th-century contemporaries to be `the greatest botanist since Linnaeus', this is the first full biography of `The Founding Father of Indian Botany', ....