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 Jacob Dochnahl: Bibliotheca hortensis. Vollständige Garten-Bibliothek oder Alphabetisches Verzeichniss aller Bücher, welche über Gärtnerei, Blumen- und Gemüsezucht, Obst- und Weinbau, Gartenbotanik und bildende Gartenkunst von 1750 bis 1860 in Deutschland erschienen sind.(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.
Fischer	Ernst Fischer: Zweihundert Jahre Naturselbstdruck. Mainz, 1933.
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.
Redoutéana	Lawrence, George H.M. (editor): A catalogue of Redoutéana. Exhibited at the Hunt Botanical Library 21 April to 1 August 1963. Pittsburgh, 1963. Contributions by Frans A. Stafleu, Ian MacPhail, John V. Brindle and Andre Lawalrée.
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.
Seaton	Beverly Seaton: The language of flowers. A history. Charlottesville & London, 1995.
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., 1976-2008, 2. edition., 6 volumes + 7 supplement volumes (Frans A. Stafleu, Erik A. Mennega, Laurence J. Dorr & Dan Nicolson).
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.
Wimmer	Clemens Alexander Wimmer & Iris Lauterbach: Bibliographie der vor 1750 erschienenen deutschen Gartenbücher. Nördlingen, 2003.