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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Creator
Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
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Gilbert, Anthony, 1916–1995
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Hobson, Edward, 1782–1830
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Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
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Laskey, Walter
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Lindley, John, 1799–1865
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Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
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Stracey, Benard, 1874–1944
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1954
On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Image Use
Under Certain Circumstances
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Free to Use
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10
Available
5
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2023-2024
3
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Archives & Manuscripts
14
Books
1
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unknown
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Period
19th century
13
20th century
2
18th century
1
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herbaria
15
botanical illustration
12
albums (books)
6
ink drawing
2
exercise book
1
leaves (plant components)
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lecture
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watercolor
1
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Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
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Pressed flower pictures.
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Botanical specimens -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
5
Flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
4
Wild flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
4
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain.
3
Flowers -- Great Britain.
3
Mosses -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
3
Mosses -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
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Women in natural history.
3
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Europe.
2
Grand tours (Education)
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Leaves -- Great Britain -- Identification.
2
Liverworts -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
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Liverworts -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
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Trees -- Great Britain -- Identification.
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Trees -- Great Britain.
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Wild flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Europe.
2
Botanical specimens -- Ireland.
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Botanical specimens -- Switzerland -- Specimens.
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Crowther, Richard William B
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Dillenius, Johann Jakob, 1687–1747
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Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
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Hegan, John, 1801–1876
1
Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785–1865
1
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
1
Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795–1870
1
Lindley, John, 1799–1865
1
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
1
Smith, James Edward, 1759–1828
1
Exhibition History
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Underwood
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lauren Brown.
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English
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Specimens of sea weed
circa 1840?
2
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens
1879-1880
3
Album of pressed plant, flower, and seaweed specimens
1856-1863
4
Album of pressed wild flowers
1882-1899
5
Lindley, John, 1799–1865
Lectures delivered by John Lindley in the junior course of botany at University College London
1848
6
Hobson, Edward, 1782–1830
A collection of specimens, of British mosses and Hepaticae
1818-1822
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Specimens of Cryptogamia, Filicales, Musci
circa 1850
8
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
Album of pressed plants collected during a tour of Europe
1856-1858
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Stracey, Benard, 1874–1944
Collection of flower, grass, lichen, and tree specimens, collected in Switzerland
1889-1890
10
Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
Hepatics and mosses from the herbarium of the Countess of Aylesford
circa 1790-1810
11
Laskey, Walter
Notes on trees, with leaf specimens
ca. 1950
12
Pressed botanical specimens
ca. 1825
13
Aldhouse family school exercise books
1894-1897
14
Gilbert, Anthony, 1916–1995
Garden leaves, 1954
1954
15
Album of pressed plant and flower specimens
1849-1852