EditorialSpina infectoria, Buckthorn berry and Creutzbeer, Fol. 45r, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialTragacantha, Dragant, Buckthorn, Fol. 227v, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialFrangula, Buckthorn, Fol. 75v, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialRhamnus et Rhamni species, Thorn and Sea-buckthorn, Fol. 44v, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialShawabty Box of Bakenmut, 1000-900 BC. Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, late Dynasty 21 (1069-945 BC) or early Dynasty 22 (945-715 BC). Gessoed and painted buckthorn wood; overall: 44.6 x 28 cm (17 9/16 x 11 in.).
EditorialCommon buckthorn or purging buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialGooseberry, Ribes uva-crispa, and alder buckthorn, Rhamnus frangula. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrat...
EditorialAlpine buckthorn, Rhamnus alpina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke after Thomas Shotter Boys from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825.
EditorialLa Frangula de la Chine. Chinese buckthorn, Frangula alnus. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que dans...
EditorialAlder buckthorn or glossy buckthorn, Frangula alnus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedaci...
EditorialAlder buckthorn or glossy buckthorn, Frangula alnus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedaci...
EditorialCommon buckthorn or purging buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialGooseberry, Ribes uva-crispa, and alder buckthorn, Rhamnus frangula. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrat...
EditorialAlpine buckthorn, Rhamnus alpina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke after Thomas Shotter Boys from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825.
EditorialLa Frangula de la Chine. Chinese buckthorn, Frangula alnus. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que dans...
EditorialAlder buckthorn or glossy buckthorn, Frangula alnus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedaci...
EditorialAlder buckthorn, Frangula alnus (Berry-bearing alder or black alder, Rhamnus frangula). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialCascara buckthorn or bearberry, Frangula purshiana (Rhamnus purshiana). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialAlder buckthorn, Frangula alnus (Rhamnus frangula). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialPurging buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialSea buckthorn, Elaeagnus rhamnoides (Hippophae rhamnoides). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialPurging buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialCommon brimstone butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, caterpillar and pupa (Buckthorn butterfly, Papilio rhamni). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Natura...
EditorialPurging buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica (Buckthorn tree, Rhamnus catharticus), with leaf, berry, seed and branch. After an illustration by G. Reid in Churchill and Stephenson's "Medical Botany." Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Bu...
EditorialPurging buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) wa...
EditorialAlder buckthorn, Frangula alnus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin Univ...
EditorialCommon buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin...
EditorialItalian buckthorn, Rhamnus alaternus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Engraved by Stanghi, drawn by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Turpin ...
EditorialAlder buckthorn, Rhamnus frangula. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 with 5...
EditorialPurging buckthorn, Rhamnus catharticus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822...