Tuesday, August 10, 2021

1743 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) - Botany Books & Herbals owned in Early America



Thomas Jefferson's (1743-1826) Library Books on Botany:

Theatrum botanicum : the theater of plants, or An Herball of large extent by John Parkinson

Letters on the elements of botany, addressed to a lady by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Syllabus of the course of lectures on botany, delivered in Columbia College by David Hosack

Elements of botany: or Outlines of the natural history of vegetables by Benjamin Smith Barton

Circular address on botany and zoology : followed by the prospectus of two periodical works, Annals of nature and Somiology of North America by C. S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque

Explication du système botanique du Chevalier von Linné; pour servir d'introduction à l'étude de la botanique by Antoine Gouan

Flora virginica, exhibens plantas quas v. c. Johannes Clayton in Virginia observavit atque collegit by Joh. Fred Gronovius

Florula ludoviciana; or, A flora of the state of Louisiana by abbé Robin

De distributione geographica plantarum secundum coeli temperiem et altitudinem montium, prolegomena by Alexander von Humboldt

Tentamen medicum inaugurale, de calore by James McClurg

Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de coctione alimentorum in ventriculo by Theodorick Bland

Avis pour le transport par mer des arbres, des plantes vivaces, des semences, des animaux by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau

An account of the sugar maple-tree of the United States : and of the methods of obtaining sugar from it by Benjamin Rush

Arbustrum Americanum - The American grove, or, An alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs, natives of the by Humphry Marshall

Dioscorides libri octo Graece et Latinae. Castigationes in eosdem librros by Pedanius Dioscorides

Il Dioscoride by Pedanius Dioscorides

Theophrasti Eresii De historia plantarum libri decem, graecè et latinè In quibus textum graecum variis lectionibus, by Theophrastus

Nomenclator botanicus inserviens florae danicae by Georg Christian Oeder

Dictionarium botanicum: or, A botanical dictionary for the use of the curious in husbandry and gardening by Richard Bradley

Historia plantarum, quæ in Horto Academico Lugduni-Batavorum crescunt : cum earum characteribus, & medicinalibus vi by Herman Boerhaave

Manuel des végétaux, ou, Catalogue latin et françois de toutes les plantes, arbres & arbrisseaux connus sur le glob by J. J. de Saint Germain

Theatrum botanicum : the theater of plants, or An Herball of large extent by John Parkinson

Institutiones rei herbariae by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

Caroli Linnaei ... Philosophia botanica : in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica cum definitionibus partium, exempl by Carl von Linné

Critica botanica : in qua nomina plantarum generica, specifica & variantia examini subjiciuntur, selectiora confirm by Carl von Linné

Caroli v. Linné Equ. aur. de stella polari ... Genera plantarum : eorumque characteres naturales secundum numerum, by Carl von Linné

Species plantarum : exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus tri by Carl von Linné

Caroli Linnæi doct. med. & Acad. Imp. Nat. Cur. Soc. Flora lapponica : exhibens plantas per Lapponiam crescentes se by Carl von Linné

A system of vegetables, : according to their classes orders genera species with their characters and differences by Carl von Linné

Caroli Linnæi ... Amoenitates academicae; seu, Dissertationes variæ physicæ, medicæ, botanicæ antehac seorsim edit� by Carl von Linné

A dissertation on the sexes of plants by Carl von Linné

The botanic garden : a poem, in two parts. With philosophical notes by Erasmus Darwin

Hortus siccus by Jacob Crowninshield

Flora Virginica, exhibens plantas by Johannes Fredericus Gronovius

Flora carolinæensis; or, A historical, medical, and economical display of the vegetable kingdom; according to the L by John L. E. W. Shecut

Flora caroliniana, secundum systema vegetabilium perillustris Linnæi digesta : characteres essentiales naturalesve by Thomas Walter

Catalogue of plants and seeds, sold by Kennedy and Lee, at the Vineyard, Hammersmith

Flora boreali-americana sistens caracteres plantarum quas in America septentrionali by André Michaux

Le botaniste cultivateur; ou, Description, culture et usages de la plus grande partie des plantes étrangères, natur by Georges Louis Marie Dumont de Courset, baron

Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale, : considérés principalement sous les rapports de leur by François André Michaux

Histoire des chênes de l'Amérique; ou, Descriptions et figures de toutes les espèces et variétés de chênes de l' by André Michaux

An address delivered before the proprietors of the botanic garden in Liverpool previous to opening the garden, May by William Roscoe

A catalogue of plants in the Botanic Garden, at Liverpool by John Shepherd

The botanist Being the botanical part of a course of lectures on natural history, delivered in the university at Ca by Benjamin Waterhouse

Catalogus platanarum Americæ Septentrionalis, huc usque cognitarum indigenarum et cicurum: by Henry Muhlenberg

Synopsis plantarum seu Enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum hucusque cognitarum by C. H. Persoon

The North American sylva, or, A description of the forest trees, of the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia. Considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerce ; to which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees. Illustrated by 150 coloured engravings by François André Michaux

Rapport fait a la Société Royale d'Agriculture et de Botanique de Gand, dans sa séance solennelle et publique du 29 juin 1821 by J. B. Delbecq

Mémoire sur les sept espèces d'hommes, et sur les causes des altérations de ces espèces. Ouvrage intéressant pour l'histoire naturelle, les beaux-arts et la civilisation; dédié à tous les souverains de l'Europe by Peyroux de la Coudrenière