4 Free eBooks – July 2018

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Last month I have 4 eBooks to highlight and the same is true for this months – so I gave up and changed the title from 3 to 4. I had a lot of books to choose from…went for a bit of variety.

Yōfu gajō (v. 1). Kyōto-shi: Yamada Unsōdō. Published originally in the Meiji period, 1868-1912. Available from Smithsonian Libraries here.  I liked the scenery in this volume – muted colors except for the red that pops. In the image below – do you think it is a Japanese maple? This was one of the last books in the collection of Japanese books available from this site; if you want to take a look at the whole collection – do so from the Japanese Illustrated Books from the Edo And Meiji Period page.

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Andō, Hiroshige. Tokaido gojusantsugi. Published originally in the Edo Period, 1600-1868. Available from Smithsonian Libraries here. I couldn’t resist two images from this book – rain and snow. I think the snow is my favorite because of the pink….maybe sunrise?

Catlow, Agnes. Drops of water : their marvelous and beautiful inhabitants displayed by the microscope. London: Reeve and Benham. 1851. Available from Internet Archive here. The book was published just before or early in the Victorian surge in microscopy and became one of her most successful books. She was also one of the early science writers that wrote science books for young students.

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The Craftsman. New York: United Crafts. A magazine founded and edited by the American furniture designer Gustav Stickley and published from October 1901 to December 1916. All issues are available from the University of Wisconsin Library’s Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture here. I am working my way through the issues a year at a time. I’m up to 1907 as of yesterday.

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There are lots of ideas that would work in modern situations….like hanging curtains far enough away from a window to allow chairs to be in front of the windows without having any curtains at all in the way of the light. I can imagine sitting in the chairs on a sunny winter day with sun streaming in…closing the curtains so that the area gets cozy warm…reading or writing on my laptop or creating a Zentangle.

3 Free eBooks – June 2018

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I picked 4 books instead of 3 in June because of the first two were about the same place – New York – and I thought they were interesting history.

Wittemann, Adolph. Select New York. New York: A. Wittemann. 1889. Available from Internet Archive here. This book includes photographs of New York and almost all of them include a tangle of electrical wires…at the beginning of the electrification of the city when there was a lot of chaos and little standardization.

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Wittmann, Adolph. New York: An Album of Photographs. Brooklyn: Wittemann. 1900. Available from Internet Archive here. The photographs have been tinted and there are no wires at all. Were the electrical conduits underground by 1900 or did the publisher manage to take them out of the photographs?

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Lear, Edward. Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or parrots: the greater part of them species hitherto unfigured, containing forty-two lithographic plates, drawn from life, and on stone. London, England: E. Lear. 1832. Available from the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture here. I was surprised to find this book of parrot illustrations…but the same man that wrote the poem ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ I remember from my childhood!

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Wantanabe, Seitei. Seitei kachō gafu v. 2. Okura Mogabe, Toyko, Meije 23. 1890. Available from Smithsonian Libraries here. I enjoyed the Japanese artwork…like the type of nature photography I like to do. I wanted to be in the place seeing a bird walking in a wetland – perhaps it was early morning.

eBotanical Prints – May 2018

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I am allowing myself one botanical print post in the main blog of this site each month. This is it for May – the books that contained botanical images that I read during the month. I’ll post about individual books in the eBotanicalPrints part of the site: Botanical blog. Also take a look at the Botanical eBooks list to find links to over 1,400 eBooks available free from various sources.

I read 24 botanical eBooks in May. It is always a little surprising that there are so many that I haven’t found before. In May I discovered some recent garden magazines that were made available via Internet Archive. They have great photography of cultivated plants and carry on the tradition of spreading the news about new varieties and planting designs as the books in the 1800s popularized plants from around the world.

The links to the books are below the sample image slide show.

Amaryllidaceae * Herbert, William * sample image * 1837

Les champignons de la France  * Cordier, Francois Simon * sample image * 1870

Flora Parisiensis Volume 5 * Bulliard, Pierre * sample image * 1893

Die Gartenwelt, Vol 5, 1901  * Schmidt, G. (publisher) * sample image * 1901

Historia plantarum rariorum * Martyn, John * sample image * 1728

How to know the wild fruits * Peterson, Maude Gridley * sample image * 1905

Washington watchable wildflowers : a Columbia Basin guide * Camp, Pamela et al * sample image * 1997

Wild flowers of Nova Scotia * Smith, Titus; Miller, Maria * sample image * 1840

Flea Market Gardens 2015 * misc * sample image * 2015

Fine Gardening Jun 2016 * Aitken, Steve (editor) * sample image * 2016

Country Gardens Summer 2016 * Baggett, James Augustus (editor) * sample image * 2016

Country Gardens Fall 2016 * Baggett, James Augustus (editor) * sample image * 2016

Perennial Garden Ideas 2015 USA * Jimerson, Doug; Weir-Jimerson, Karen * sample image * 2015

The vegetable world : being a history of plants  * Figuier, Louis * sample image * 1869

British flowering plants V1 * Boulger, George Simonds; Mrs. Henry Perrin (illustrator) * sample image * 1914

Country Gardens Spring 2016 * Baggett, James Augustus (editor) * sample image * 2016

British flowering plants V2 * Boulger, George Simonds; Mrs. Henry Perrin (illustrator) * sample image * 1914

American country homes and their gardens * Baker, John Cordis * sample image * 1906

British flowering plants V3 * Boulger, George Simonds; Mrs. Henry Perrin (illustrator) * sample image * 1914

British flowering plants V4 * Boulger, George Simonds; Mrs. Henry Perrin (illustrator) * sample image * 1914

The Nature Library - Trees * Rogers, Julia Ellen * sample image * 1926

The New Flora Britannica - Vol 1 * Edwards, Sydenham; Sansom, Francis * sample image * 1812

The New Flora Britannica - Vol 2 * Edwards, Sydenham; Sansom, Francis * sample image * 1812

Fine Gardening May 2017 * Aitken, Steve (editor) * sample image * 2017

14 eBooks about Niagara Falls

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In May, I found lots of books about Niagara Falls on Internet Archive and I’m featuring 14 of them in this post. They are free – easily viewed online with the lines I’ve provided. The books are from a Canadian collection of books (Brock University) and range from 1843 to 1922. There were three from the 1840s – showing that it was a tourist destination early on. (1843, 1845, 1846)

There were already boats going to the base of the fall by the 1850s. (1852)

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A book from 1860 provided a panoramic view of the Niagara River (with the falls at the top).

There were trains to be place by the 1880s (1884, 1888)

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And there were visitors even in the winter by then too. (1884)

That continued into the 1890s. (1997, 1998)

In the first decade of the 1900s the boats were still popular….but there was a cable car too. (1900, 1901, 1910)

The last page of a book copyrighted in 1922 included an annotated map of the falls area that had been created in 1893.

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eBotanical Prints – April 2018

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I am allowing myself one botanical print post in the main blog of this site each month. This is it for April – the books that contained botanical images that I read during the month. I’ll post about individual books in the eBotanicalPrints part of the site: Botanical blog. Also take a look at the botanical eBooks list to find links to over 1,000 eBooks available free from various sources.

I read 16 botanical eBooks in April and 15 sample images are shown below. The 16th book (about seed pods) is one that is still under copyright but is available for checkout from Internet Archive. The links to the books are below the sample images.

Free eBooks – April 2018

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It is so easy to find historical books that are available online – scanned with care and ‘free.’ I can remember a time when I went to libraries (often not finding the book I was looking for) and how expensive it could be to buy books. Now I find myself rarely spending money on books. There are such riches of books these day. The world of books has changed in my lifetime almost as monumentally as the advent of the printing press! Here are three picks from the books I found this month.

Ogata, Kori; Aikawa,Minwa. Korin gashiki. Kikuya Kihē, Kyōto, Bunka 15. 1818. Available from Smithsonian Libraries here. In the image I chose to clip from the book – I like the simplicity of the drawing of the cranes (and chicks). I also like the way water is drawn; it is easily used as a Zentangle pattern.

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Mars, Gerhardt C. (editor). Brickwork of Italy: a brief review from ancient to modern times. Chicago: American Face Brick Association. 1925. Available from Internet Archive here. Somehow the mellow color of brick and the architecture in the illustrations in this book were very appealing.

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Merian, Maria Sibylla. Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium. Amsterdam: 1705. Available on Internet Archive here. An early book about butterflies…and their caterpillars. Merian was a leading entomologist in the early 1700s…and was one of the first to publish color images of insects…particularly documenting metamorphosis of butterflies.

eBotanical Prints – March 2018

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I added the 2009 books to the list on the eBotanicalPrints area of the site and that completes the gleanings from previous years. Take a look at the Botanical Blog.  I’ll keep adding books I browse each month to the list because there still seem to be lots of botanical print books out there being scanned and made available online.

I’ve also formulated a table for the list of books which makes it easier to sort the list….and I’ve added the copyright date.

I only have 12 books to add to the list from March. The sample images are shown first…then the list with links to the ebooks. Enjoy!

3 Free eBooks – March 2018

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So many books…so little time. I’m still working my way through the Japanese Illustrated Books from the Edo and Meiji Period. My favorite this month was a series with three volumes:

Kacho shasin zui. Published by Nishimura Soshichi, 1805. Available from Smithsonian Libraries here. I like the images of the birds and flowers as art and snapshots of nature through the lens of Japanese culture of the time. The scans appear a little smudged but that adds to their charm – there were books that were enjoyed again and again!

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The other books I’m highlighting this month were both written about the same time – the 1920s – and about scenic highways along rivers. The first one is from the west coast…the second is from the east coast. Both highways still exist…although is renovated/modified form. These books were probably produced as souvenirs with annotated pictures.

Oregon’s famous Columbia River Highway. Published by Lipschuetz and Katz, Portland Oregon. 1920. Available from Internet Archive here. Scenic routes have been popular since the beginning of the age of automobiles! Even with the lower speeds of those early cars, there were still turnouts – places to stop to see the river or walk a little way to see waterfalls.

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Storm King Highway and the Historic Hudson River. Published by J. Ruben, Newburgh, New York. Available from Internet Archive here. A lot has happened along the Hudson River in the last century and not all for the better. I found the highway on Google Maps and the first ‘street view’ was one with graffiti (not the artistic kind) all over the rock wall and rocks beyond. I didn’t look further. It’s depressing to see something that was once scenic turned into a prime example of ‘tragedy of the commons.’

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3 Free eBooks – February 2018

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I’m saving the wonderful botanical print books I viewed in February for a post on botanical prints…so the three books featured today are from the rest of my online reading in February.

Mochizuki, Gyokusen. Gyokusen shūgajō. Tonaka Jihe, Kyoto-shi, Meiji 24. 1891. Available from the Smithsonian Libraries site here.  I liked the soft colors and the depictions of familiar things. The dragonfly on grassy stems was my favorite.

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Mori, Yuzan. Hamonshu. Yamada Geisodo, Kyoto-shi, Meiji 36. 1903. Three volumes are available from the Smithsonian Libraries site here. These books are all about depicting water. I got a lot of ideas for Zentangle patterns from these volumes

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.Ladies Realm – an illustrated monthly magazine. Published by Hutchinson and Co. London. The volumes from the late 1800s to 1913 are available on Hathi Trust here.  This period was one of transition. There was a lot of change in fashion and technology and what women were reading. At first there were a lot of pictures of the royal family and other aristocrats….and lots of pages devoted to fashion from Paris. As time when on, there was more fiction, more ‘how to’ articles, and by the 25th volume (1908-1909) an article showing pictures of London at night.

HoLLIE – week 3

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The Week 3 of  HoLLIE (Howard County Legacy Leadership for the Environment) class day was last week and it was held at NASA Goddard like the second week. The theme for the day was continued from last week: “what informed citizens need to know about earth systems science.”

The first talk of the day as about ice sheets and included a discussion of the speakers trek to the South Pole last year. Check out her ICESat-2 Antarctic Traverse Blog (The first post is from December 4, 2017. If you want to start with that one and read in chronological order, scroll down to the bottom of this page until you get to ‘Heading South, to New Zealand and Beyond.’ Then after reading the ‘South Pole Station: The Last Stop Before the Traverse’ beginning at the top of the page, click on ‘newer entries’ to read the rest of the of the posts – and again start with the post at the bottom of the page and work up). She spent Christmas at the South Pole!

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She recommended a book that I found could be checked out from Internet Archive when I got home: The two-mile time machine by Richard B. Alley. The book is about the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland and what they tell us about Earth’s climate over time.

The second talk was about the Land-Based Hydrology Cycle. This talk included what we can learn from satellites but also what measurements are taken on land too (and how much effort that takes…to get even sporadic data). With fresh water being so key to life – the very highs (floods) and very lows (droughts) are major impact all around the world.

The third talk was about the Black Marble project…about what we can learn from looking at the earth at night. Back in April there was good summation of the project – to create the images more frequently so that they could be used more even more applications (like short-term weather forecasting and disaster response): New Night Lights Maps Open Up Possible Real-Time Applications - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/new-night-lights-maps-open-up-possible-real-time-applications; take a look at the map of India midway through the article and slide the vertical bar to the see how the northern part of the country was electrified between 2012 and 2016. There is more at https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/NightLights/.

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The fourth talk was about how the Montreal Protocol saved the earth’s ozone layer. I knew the protocol concerned Ozone and CFCs….but didn’t realize any more history than that. The timing of a report that linked CFCs to ozone depletion just before the ‘hole’ was discovered in the ozone layer (a major change from measures of ozone for many years beforehand) over Antarctica made for a dramatic beginning to the conversation. It has been effective because governments engaged industry that provided substitutes (some transitional) that made it possible to move away from compounds that were ozone damaging in the stratosphere.

Next we visited NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio – seeing some of their recent work on a wall sized screen. Here are some web versions of what we saw in the studio:

NASA's Near-Earth Science Mission Fleet: March 2017

Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2017

Weekly Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Age with Two Graphs: 1984 - 2016

Previous HoLLIE posts: Week 1, Week 2

3 Free eBooks – January 2018

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Three books – the first one for reading; the second one for reading and the images; the third for the images.

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Creevey, Caroline Alathea Stickney. A Daughter of Puritans: An Autobiography. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. 1916. Available Hathi Trust here. I’d found Creevey’s Flowers of field, hill and swamp and discovered the autobiography when I looked to see if there were more books from her on Internet Archive and HathiTrust. The autobiography is a good read – a snapshot of her growing up years. She lived from 1843-1920 and to book ends when she married so this is just before and during the civil war.

Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron with illustration by A. H. Sime. The sword of Welleran, and other stories. London: G. Allen and Sons. 1908. From Internet Archive here. The illustrations and stories are both intriguing. Both the author and the illustrator have biographies in Wikipedia.

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Pillsbury, Joanne. Moche Art and Archaeology in ancient Peru. Washington: National Gallery of Art. 2005. Available from HathiTrust here. Such a different culture than the Inca! The way the faces of people are depicted is what interested me the most….the relationship between culture and depiction of the human form in art shows how what we ‘see’ is impacted by more than the biology of sight.

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eBotanicalPrints – December 2017

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December was a big month for botanical eBooks – 28 in all. The first series (Flora Graeca) was from the early 1800s and the second (Le Jardin) was from the late 1800s. Both were full of color. There was another series (Artistic Japan) – also from the late 1800s) that was not exclusively botanical, but I like the ones that were there so much that I included them in the collection for this month.

Enjoy!

  1. Flora Graeca, sive, Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Graeciae V1  (1806) * Sibthorp, John et al * sample image
  2. Flora Graeca, sive, Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Graeciae V2  (1813) * Sibthorp, John et al * sample image
  3. Trees  * Gates, Galen; Johnson, Ethan; Clausen, Ruth Rogers *  
  4. Flora Graeca, sive, Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Graeciae V3  (1819) * Sibthorp, John et al * sample image
  5. Flora Graeca, sive, Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Graeciae V4  (1823) * Sibthorp, John et al * sample image
  6. Flora Graeca, sive, Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Graeciae V5  (1825) * Sibthorp, John et al * sample image
  7. Artistic Japan: illustrations and essays V1 * Bing, Siegfried * sample image
  8. Artistic Japan: illustrations and essays V2 * Bing, Siegfried * sample image
  9. Flora Graeca, sive, Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Graeciae V6  (1826) * Sibthorp, John et al * sample image
  10. Artistic Japan: illustrations and essays V3 * Bing, Siegfried * sample image
  11. Flora Graeca, sive, Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Graeciae V7  (1830) * Sibthorp, John et al * sample image
  12. Flora Graeca, sive, Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Graeciae V8  (1833) * Sibthorp, John et al * sample image
  13. Flora Graeca, sive, Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Graeciae V9  (1837) * Sibthorp, John et al * sample image
  14. Flora Graeca, sive, Plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Graeciae V10  (1837) * Sibthorp, John et al * sample image
  15. Bulbs and tuberous-rooted plants * Allen, Charles Linnaeus * sample image
  16. Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris * Parkinson, John * sample image
  17. Le Jardin - 1896 * Martinet, H. * sample image
  18. Le Jardin - 1897 * Martinet, H. * sample image
  19. Le Jardin - 1898 * Martinet, H. * sample image
  20. Le Jardin - 1899 * Martinet, H. * sample image
  21. Le Jardin - 1900 * Martinet, H. * sample image
  22. Le Jardin - 1901 * Martinet, H. * sample image
  23. Le Jardin - 1902 * Martinet, H. * sample image
  24. Le Jardin - 1903 * Martinet, H. * sample image
  25. British Flowering Plants * Kirby, William Forsell * sample image
  26. British Edible Fungi: how to distinguish and how to cook them * Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt * sample image
  27. A plain and easy account of British Fungi, with especial reference to the esculent and economic species  * Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt * sample image
  28. Rust, smut, mildew, & mould. An introduction to the study of microscopic Fungi.  * Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt * sample image

eBotanicalPrints – February – March 2017

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We are having some very cold days here in Maryland – starting out our days in the single digits…sometimes not making it into the 30s. A good time for me to be working on my lists of eBooks with botanical prints. Today I am featuring books I perused back in February and March of last year

In February, there were more that were photography rather than drawings or paintings. I particularly enjoyed the book about the US Botanic Garden; it was published in 2007…so it was a relatively recent collection of photographs of a familiar (botanical) place.

  1. Tentamen hydrophytologiae danicae  * Lyngbye, Hans Christian * sample image
  2. The British flora medica, or, a History of the medicinal plants of Great Britain c1v2 * Barton, Benjamin Herbert; Castle, Thomas * sample image
  3. Forty years of gardening * Hill, Anna Gilman * sample image
  4. A botanic garden for the nation: the United States Botanic Garden * Fallen, Anne-Catherine; Shimizu, Holly H.; Solit, Karen; Allen, William C. * sample image
  5. The ivy : a monograph comprising the history, uses, characteristics, and affinities of the plant, and a descriptive list of all the garden ivies in cultivation  *  Hibberd, Shirley * sample image
  6. The golden garden guide; a practical handbook of gardening and outdoor living * Strohm, John * sample image
  7. Wild flower gardening  * Taylor, Norman * sample image
  8. Alpines in color and cultivations * Mansfield, TC * sample image

 

March was more typical with several volumes of A new British Flora topping the list; they were published just after World War I in 1919. European Ferns – the last book of the month – is full of traditional botanical prints; the one I selected depicts a familiar one – rattlesnake fern!

  1. The Gardener's Travel Book * Farrington, Edward Irving * sample image
  2. Wild gardens of New England * Eaton, Walter Prichard * sample image
  3. A new British flora : British wild flowers in their natural haunts - v 02 * Horwood, A. R.; Fitch, John Nugent * sample image
  4. A new British flora : British wild flowers in their natural haunts - v 03 * Horwood, A. R.; Fitch, John Nugent * sample image
  5. A new British flora : British wild flowers in their natural haunts - v 04 * Horwood, A. R.; Fitch, John Nugent * sample image
  6. Adventures in dish gardening * Beard, Patten * sample image
  7. A new British flora : British wild flowers in their natural haunts - v 05 * Horwood, A. R.; Fitch, John Nugent * sample image
  8. Japanese Gardens * Taylor, Harriet Osgood; Tyndale, Walter * sample image
  9. Our Monsoon Plants - Bombay Natural History Society * Raut, Madhav; Lucas, Mrs. * sample image
  10. Roof Gardening  * Mellen, Ida * sample image
  11. Rock Gardens * Rockwell, F. F.; Hollrock, George L. * sample image
  12. Beautiful Gardens in America * Shelton, Louise * sample image
  13. European Ferns * Britten, James * sample image

eBotanicalPrints – May 2017

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This last week of the year is very cold…the kind of weather best dealt with by staying inside…an enjoying botanical prints.

May 2017 included some more recent books; the first photograph is from the 1940s (Trees and Flowers the Hawaiian Islands) and the second is from the  1980s (Woodland Wildflowers from Illinois). There is a fanciful image with flowers and bees…and fairies; I decided to include it since I found the combination of realism and fancy so charming. My favorites of the month were the British Flower Garden series…lots of big beautiful botanical print in those volumes. Enjoy some botanical prints on a winter day!

  1. With the flowers and trees in California * Saunders, Charles Francis and Elizabeth Hallowell * sample image
  2. Trees and Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands * St. John, Harold * sample image
  3. Spring woodland wildflowers of Illinois * Mohlenbrock, Robert H. * sample image
  4. Blumen * Frey, Adolf; Kreidolf, Ernst * sample image
  5. The ladies' flower-garden of ornamental bulbous plants * Loudon, Mrs. * sample image
  6. The British Flower Garden V. 1 * Sweet, Robert; Smith, Edwin Dalton * sample image
  7. The British Flower Garden V. 2 * Sweet, Robert; Smith, Edwin Dalton * sample image
  8. The British Flower Garden V. 3 * Sweet, Robert; Smith, Edwin Dalton * sample image
  9. The British Flower Garden V. 1 (series 2) * Sweet, Robert; Smith, Edwin Dalton * sample image
  10. The British Flower Garden V. 2 (series 2) * Sweet, Robert; Smith, Edwin Dalton * sample image
  11. The British Flower Garden V. 3 (series 2) * Sweet, Robert; Smith, Edwin Dalton * sample image
  12. Gartengestaltung der neuzeit * Lange, Willy; Stahn, Otto * sample image
  13. Neue Arten von Pelargonien deutschen Ursprunges. Als beytrag zu Rob. Sweet's Geraniaceen mit Abbildungen und Beschreibungen V2 * Trattinnick, Leopold; Sweet Robert * sample image
  14. Neue Arten von Pelargonien deutschen Ursprunges. Als beytrag zu Rob. Sweet's Geraniaceen mit Abbildungen und Beschreibungen V3 * Trattinnick, Leopold; Sweet Robert * sample image
  15. Der Garten und seine Bepflanzung c. 1 * Lange, Willy * sample image
  16. Neue Arten von Pelargonien deutschen Ursprunges. Als beytrag zu Rob. Sweet's Geraniaceen mit Abbildungen und Beschreibungen V4 * Trattinnick, Leopold; Sweet Robert * sample image
  17. Neue Arten von Pelargonien deutschen Ursprunges. Als beytrag zu Rob. Sweet's Geraniaceen mit Abbildungen und Beschreibungen V5 * Trattinnick, Leopold; Sweet Robert * sample image
  18. Neue Arten von Pelargonien deutschen Ursprunges. Als beytrag zu Rob. Sweet's Geraniaceen mit Abbildungen und Beschreibungen V6 * Trattinnick, Leopold; Sweet Robert * sample image
  19. The Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubery V1 * Sweet, Robert; Don, David; Lindley, John * sample image
  20. The British Flower Garden V. 4 (series 2) * Sweet, Robert; Smith, Edwin Dalton * sample image
  21. Cistinae. The natural order of cistus, or rock-rose * Sweet, Robert * sample image
  22. Geraniaceae : the natural order of gerania V1 * Sweet, Robert * sample image
  23. Geraniaceae : the natural order of gerania V1 * Sweet, Robert * sample image
  24. Geraniaceae : the natural order of gerania V2 * Sweet, Robert * sample image
  25. Geraniaceae : the natural order of gerania V3 * Sweet, Robert * sample image
  26. Geraniaceae : the natural order of gerania V4 * Sweet, Robert * sample image

Previous eBotanicalPrints posts:

eBotanicalPrints – June 2017

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As I am writing this post is it wet and dreary. It’s just the sort of day to appreciate books of botanical prints.

June 2017 was a big month for botanical books – 27 of them in all. Who knew that geraniums were so popular in the early 1800s. The Botanical Cabinet series had my favorite images – with the top of the list being the magnolia (near the bottom of the images).

  1. Geraniaceae : the natural order of gerania V4 * Sweet, Robert * sample image
  2. Geraniaceae : the natural order of gerania V5 * Sweet, Robert * sample image
  3. The language of flowers * Ildrewe, Miss (editor) * sample image
  4. Mushirui gafu * Kitagawa, Utamaro;Ishikawa, Masamochi * sample image
  5. Ransai gafu * Mori, Bunsho * sample image
  6. Flower Arrangement in Color * Rockwell, F. F.; Grayson, Ester, C. * sample image
  7. The ladies' flower-garden of ornamental perennials V1 * Loudon, Mrs.  * sample image
  8. The ladies' flower-garden of ornamental perennials V2 * Loudon, Mrs.  * sample image
  9. A wreath from the woods of Carolina, illustrated with colored engravings of native wild flowers * Mason, Mary Ann Bryan * sample image
  10. Flora britannica indigena; or, Plates of the indigenous plants of Great Britain * Walcott, John * sample image
  11. Popular garden botany * Catlow, Agnes * sample image
  12. The Botanical Cabinet V1 1818 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
  13. The Botanical Cabinet V2 1821 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
  14. The Botanical Cabinet V3 1818 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
  15. The Botanical Cabinet V4 1819 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
  16. The Botanical Cabinet V5 1820 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
  17. A year in the garden * Mustard, Norah Elizabeth * sample image
  18. Futatsubo yori hyakutsubo made Nihon teizō shingyōsō santai zuan shinsho : tsuketari, Chikuteihō kokoroe oyobi shiyōsho to kōji yosansho * Sugimoto, Fumitaro * sample image
  19. The Botanical Cabinet V6 1821 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
  20. My villa garden * Graveson,S. * sample image
  21. The Botanical Cabinet V7 1822 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
  22. The Botanical Cabinet V8 1823 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
  23. Every woman's flower garden : how to make and keep it beautiful * Hamden, Mary; Reeve, Mary S. * sample image
  24. The Botanical Cabinet V9 1824 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image
  25. Saxifrages, or rockfoils * Irving, Walter; Malby, Reginald A. * sample image
  26. Our Sentimental Garden * Castle, Agnes Sweetman And Egerton; Robinson, Charles * sample image
  27. The Botanical Cabinet V10 1824 * Loddiges, Conrad, & Sons; Cooke; George * sample image

 

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3 Free eBooks – December 2017

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This month I picked books with an Asian theme:

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Bing, Siegfried. Artistic Japan: illustrations and essays. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Six volumes available from the Internet Archive here; published in the late 1800s. Most of the illustrations are in color…and represent a broad range of Japanese art from the time. I picked an image of a textile but there is a lot of other types of art in these volumes.

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Ando, Hiroshige. Ehon Edo miyage. Kikuya Kozaburo han. 1850 or after and before 1868. Six volumes available from Smithsonian Libraries here. Images in soft colors depicting Japan in the mid 1800s. I picked one from the fourth volume that looked like a road lined with cherry trees blooming in the spring. There were some other images of landscapes with snow that I liked almost as well.

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Oriental Textile Samples. 1700. Available from the Internet Archive here. This book is a reminder of how rich the textile tradition is – particularly from China. I clipped a part of the cover – which must have also been textile. There is a note that the book is ‘fabric samples mounted in accordion-style, silk covered, volumes in brown cloth-covered folios’.

3 Free eBooks – November 2017

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So many books….so little time!

Evans, Henry Herman. Botanical prints with excerpts from the artist's notebooks. San Francisco: Freeman. 1977. Borrow from Internet Archive here. This is a book available from Internet Archive that is loaned for 14 days. I loved the prints in this book…well work the look. I appreciate that a lot of books that were previous hard to access because they were still under copyright but out-of-print (and expensive if they were available on the used market) are being digitized and made available this way. Kudos to the Internet Archive and the people that are working to make it possible.

Godey, Louis A.; Hale, Sarah Josepha. Godey’s Lady’s Book. Published in Philadelphia. The Internet Archive has many volumes…particularly issues from 1864 available here. The illustrations are snippets of fashion history at the that the Civil War was ending; the magazine managed to stay surprisingly apolitical. What do you think about these bathing dresses from July 1864!

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Wight, Robert. Icones plantarum Indiae Orientalis - or figures of Indian plants. Madras: Published by JB Pharoah for the author. 1840-1853. Six volumes (and other books by the same author) available from the Internet Archive here. I like the botanical drawings in these volumes as prompts for Zentangle patterns.

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3 Free eBooks – October 2017

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I am always thrilled to find a new source of eBooks. This month it was the Smithsonian making 1,000 illustrated Japanese Texts available online. I’ve just started making my way through. Here are three eBooks I’ve enjoyed so far.

Kono, Bairei. Bairei gafu. Yamada Unsodo, Kyoto, Meiji 38 [1905]. Three volumes available from Smithsonian Libraries here. Birds!

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Utagawa, Sadahide. Bansho shashin zafu. Sonoharaya Shosuke, Toto, Bunkyu 4 [1864]. Available from Smithsonian Libraries here. Nature and art…a great combo.

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Kobayashi, Bunshici. Bansho zukan. Kobayashi Bunshici, Tokyo, Meiji 34 [1901]. Two volumes available from Smithsonian Libraries here. More plants and animals...the bamboo images would make an elegant wallpaper.

3 Free eBooks – September 2017

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I picked three series this month – one magazine and two multi-volume books.

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The Graphic Arts (The monthly magazine of the craftsmanship of advertising). Boston: The Graphic Arts Co. 1911-1915. Eight volumes are available from Hathi Trust here. A lot of technical advances were being made during this time to meet the demand for increasingly colorful print advertising. The clip I’ve picked was annotated “An achievement in two-color plate making.”

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Duncan, James and Dunbar, William. Introduction to entomology. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars. 1843. Seven volumes available from Internet Archive: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Some of the butterflies looked very familiar (like ones in Brookside Gardens Wings of Fancy exhibit). I wondered how many of the insects seen in 1843 are now extinct.

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Harris, William T, Edward Everett Hale, Nelson A. Miles, O. P. Austin, George Cary Eggleston (editorial staff). The United States of America: A pictorial history of the American nation from the earliest discoveries and settlements to the present time. New York: Imperial Publishing Company. 1909. Five volumes available from Hathi Trust here. There are more drawings than color illustrations…and the telling is somewhat dated. History is subtly re-interpreted. This was the way history was presented prior to World War I…before we became a ‘superpower.’

3 Free eBooks – August 2017

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I’ve been enjoying colorful magazines on various topics that are from 2016 and available on Internet Archive. It’s like browsing through a stack of periodicals in the dentist’s office!

House Beautiful (from US and UK) from 2015 and 2016. Available from Internet Archive here. Lots of food for thought if you are redecorating, renovating, or moving to another house and wanting to add something to make it ‘home.’

World of Animals from 2014 and 2017 available from Internet Archive here. Great pictures of animals – many in action – from all over the world.

Canadian Architecture and Design 2009 available from Internet Archive here. Again – great photography…beautiful places. I hope pocket doors become popular again!