EditorialDwarf birch, Betula nana. 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.
EditorialSilver birch tree, Betula pendula. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn from nature by Mrs. Rebecca Hey from her own "Spirit of the Woods," London, Longman, Rees, 1837. Rebecca Hey was a Victorian writer, poet and artist who wrote "Moral of Flower...
EditorialWhite birch tree, Betula pubescens. 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 ...
EditorialBetula, Bircken, Fol. 40r, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialCommon alder tree, Betula alnus, and frizzled bartramia, Bartramia crispa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Sydenham Edwards from John Mason Good's Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia, G. Kearsley, London, 1813.
EditorialDowny birch or white birch, Betula alba. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialCommon alder tree, Betula alnus, and frizzled bartramia, Bartramia crispa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Sydenham Edwards from John Mason Good's Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia, G. Kearsley, London, 1813.
EditorialDowny birch or white birch, Betula alba. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialSweet birch, Betula lenta. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialDwarf birch, Betula nana. 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.
EditorialSilver birch tree, Betula pendula, with peppered moth, Biston betularia, caterpillar and pupa. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1848.
EditorialSilver birch tree, Betula pendula, with leaf, catkin, and seed. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 183...
EditorialWhite birch tree, Betula pubescens. 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 ...