References
commonly used in the descriptions.

Blake

Sidney Fay Blake & Alice Cary Atwood: Geographical guide to the floras of the world. Washington, 1942-1961, 2 parts.
Blunt & Stearn Wilfrid Blunt & William T. Stearn: The art of botanical illustration. London, 1951, 2. edition.
Bodenheimer Fritz Simon Bodenheimer: Materialen zur Geschichte der Entomologie bis Linné. Berlin, 1928-1929, 2 volumes.
B-P-H George H.M. Lawrence et al. (editors): B-P-H Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum. Pittsburg, 1968.
British Museum Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History). London, 1903-1940, 8 volumes (including 3 supplements).
Davy de Virville Ad. Davy de Virville: Histoire de la botanique en France. Paris, 1954.
Dibner Bern Dibner: Heralds of science as represented by two hundred epochal books and pamphlets selected from the Burndy Library. Norwalk, 1955.
Cole F.J. Cole: A history of comparative anatomy. From Aristotle to the eighteenth century. London, 1944.
Dochnahl Friedrich Jakob Dochnahl: Bibliotheca hortensis. (Nürnberg, 1861), Hildesheim & New York, 1970.
DSB Charles Coulston Gillispie (editor): Dictionary of scientific biography. New York, 1970-1980, 16 volumes.
Dunthorne Gordon Dunthorne: Flower and fruit prints of the 18th and early 19th centuries. (Washington, 1938), London, 1970.
Freeman R.B. Freeman: The works of Charles Darwin. An annotated bibliographical handlist. Folkestone, 1977, 2. edition.
Ganay Ernest de Ganay: Bibliographie de l'art des jardins. Paris, 1989.
Ein Garten Eden H. Walter Lack: Ein Garten Eden. Meisterwerke der botanischen Illustration. Köln, 2001.
Great flower books Sacheverell Sitwell & Wilfrid Blunt: Great Flower Books 1700-1900. A bibliographical record of two centuries of finely illustrated flower books. London, 1956.
Hagen Hermann August Hagen: Bibliotheca entomologica. Die Litteratur über das ganze Gebiet der Entomologie bis zum Jahre 1862. Leipzig, 1862-1863, 2 volumes.
Hedrick U.P. Hedrick: A history of horticulture in America to 1860. New York, 1950.
Heilmann Karl Eugen Heilmann: Kräuterbücher in Bild und Geschichte. München-Allach, 1966.
Henrey Blanche Henrey: British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800. London, 1975, 3 volumes.
Hunt Jane Quinby & Allan Stevenson (editors): Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. Pittsburg, 1958-1961, 3 volumes.
Jackson Benjamin Dayton Jackson: Guide to the literature of botany; a classified selection of botanical works. London, 1881. (* = Books especially noteworthy)
Janson H. Frederic Janson: Pomona's harvest. An illustrated chronicle of antiquarian fruit literature. Portland, Oregon, 1996.
Jellicoe Geoffrey Jellicoe and Susan Jellicoe (editors) et al.: The Oxford companion to gardens. Oxford & New York, 1986.
Johnston Stanley H. Johnston: The Cleveland herbal, botanical, and horticultural collections. Kent, Ohio, 1992.
Kelly Louis Charles Christopher Krieger (editor): Catalogue of the mycological library of Howard A. Kelly. Baltimore, 1924.
Kleis Gerrit Kleis: De rozenteelt in Nederland. Geschiedenis, literatuur en documenten. 'Goy-Houten, 2007.
Krelage Ernst Heinrich Krelage: Drie eeuwen bloembollenexport. 's-Gravenhage, 1946.
Landwehr John Landwehr: Studies in Dutch books with coloured plates published 1662-1875. The Hague, 1976.
Linnaeus and
the Linnaeans		 Frans A. Stafleu: Linnaeus and the Linnaeans. The spreading of their ideas in systematic botany, 1735-1789. Utrecht, 1971.
Livres de fruits Anne-Marie Bogaert-Damin & Jacques A. Piron: Livres de fruits du XVIe au XXe siècle dans les collections de la Bibliothèque universitaire Moretus Plantin. Namur, 1992.
Martini Silvio Martini: Geschichte der Pomologie in Europa. Bern, 1988.
Möbius Martin Möbius: Geschichte der Botanik. Von den ersten Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Stuttgart, 1937.
Morton Morton, A.G.: History of botanical science. An account of the development of botany from ancient times to the present day. London, 1981.
Nissen BBI Claus Nissen: Die botanische Buchillustration. Stuttgart, (1951, 1. edition) 1966, 2. edition.
An Oak Spring flora Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi: An Oak Spring flora. Flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time. A selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon. Upperville, Virginia, 1997.
An Oak Spring pomona Sandra Raphael: An Oak Spring pomona. A selection of the rare books on fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library. Upperville, Virginia, 1990.
An Oak Spring sylva Sandra Raphael: An Oak Spring sylva. A selection of the rare books on trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library. Upperville, Virginia, 1989.
Pavord Anna Pavord: The tulip. London, 1999.
Plesch Arpad Plesch & Henry-Pierre Gourry: Mille et un livres botaniques. Répertoire bibliographique de la bibliothèque Arpad Plesch. Bruxelles, 1973.
Printing and
the mind of man		 John Carter & Percy H. Muir (editors): Printing and the mind of man. A descriptive catalogue illustrating the impact of print on the evolution of western civilization during five centuries. München, 1983, 2. edition.
Pritzel G.A. Pritzel: Thesaurus literaturae botanicae. Leipzig, 1872, 2. edition.
Rehder Alfred Rehder: The Bradley bibliography. A guide to the literature of woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century. Compiled at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University ... Cambridge, 1911-1918, 5 volumes.
SABLIT A.S. Kerkham: Southern African Botanical Literature 1600-1988. Cape Town, 1988.
Schliemann Winfried Uellner: Fungorum libri bibliothecae Joachim Schliemann. Books and prints of four centuries ...  Vaduz, 1976.
Smit Pieter Smit: History of the life sciences. Amsterdam, 1974.
Soulsby B.H. Soulsby: A catalogue of the works of Linnaeus ... preserved in the libraries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) and the British Museum (Natural History) ... London, 1933, 2. edition.
Springer Leonard A. Springer: Bibliographisch overzicht van geschriften, boek- en plaatwerken op het gebied der tuinkunst. Wageningen, 1936
Stafleu & Cowan Frans A. Stafleu & Richard S. Cowan: Taxonomic literature. A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Utrecht, etc., 1976-2000, 2. edition., 6 volumes & 6 supplement volumes (Frans A. Stafleu & Erik A. Mennega).
Stock K.L. Stock: Rose books. A bibliography of books and important articles in journals on the genus Rosa, in English, French and Latin, 1550-1975. Milton Keynes, 1984
Volbracht Christian Volbracht: MykoLibri. Die Bibliothek der Pilzbücher. Hamburg, 2006.