The eBooks for this week are by Edna Groff Deihl published in 1924 and available on Project Gutenberg. She wrote books for children in the early decades of the 20th Century. She evidently produced the books based on stories she told her children. There is a picture of her with her 4 children in 1916 when she spoke to the Story Telling Club in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Enjoy!
My ‘book of the week’ selection is a manuscript of 50 tempera, water- and bodycolor drawings. The original is held by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, Virginia and is available online at Internet Archive; the foundation is evidently working to digitize the collection accumulated by Rachel (“Bunny”) Lambert Mellon in the Oak Spring Garden Library. This manuscript is not dated and the authors are unknown but it has Chinese circular red stamps on the first drawing and the back endpaper so is attributed generically to ‘Chinese School.’
Images of plants and wildlife (insects, birds) always appeals to me. I like the artistic techniques of the collection as well. Enjoy browsing the book online!
The four eBooks this week are all Lewis Carroll’s Alice and Wonderland; the illustrators are different. They are all available from Project Gutenberg. I’ve chosen 2 illustrations from each book as samples – look at the whole book by clicking the illustrator’s name.
The first one is from 1869 and the illustrator is John Tenniel. According to the Wikipedia entry for this illustrator, his black and white drawings are the definitive depiction of the characters….and the illustrations did look familiar to me!
There are two from 1916 – illustrated by Gordon Robinson and Arthur Rackham. Robinson is the least well known of the illustrators while Rackham is very well-known.
The most recent is from 1921with illustrations done by Charles Folkard; the book is Lewis Carroll words as songs (music by Lucy E. Broadwood).
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in February – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. I continued working my way through the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters; there are 4 volumes per year so I only browsed late 1994 to 1999 in February; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in March.
I couldn’t resist 2 books I happened upon from the early 1800s by Elizabeth Warton….no photographs in those vintage books!
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,303 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from February’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the February 2026 eBotanical Prints!
British Seaweeds * Warton, Elizabeth and Margaret * sample image * 1827
British Flowers * Warton, Elizabeth and Margaret * sample image * 1811
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.23:no.3 (1994) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1994
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.23:no.4 (1994) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1994
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.24:no.1 (1995) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1995
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.24:no.2 (1995) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1995
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.24:no.4 (1995) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1995
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.25:no.1 (1996) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1996
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.25:no.2 (1996) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1996
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.25:no.3 (1996) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1996
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.25:no.4 (1996) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1996
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.26:no.1 (1997) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1997
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.26:no.2 (1997) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1997
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.26:no.3 (1997) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1997
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.26:no.4 (1997) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1997
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.27:no.1 (1998) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1998
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.27:no.2 (1998) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1998
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.27:no.3 (1998) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1998
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.27:no.4 (1998) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1998
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.28:no.1 (1999) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1999
Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1946, I noticed a lot about veterans returning, application of technology from the war applied to civilian purposes, and tragedies of famine in places that World War II ravaged. There were hotel fires and flash floods…slums in cities – photography depicting the peace time news.
(Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)
Life Magazine 1946-01-07 - Veterans at College
Life Magazine 1946-01-14 - La Guardia waves farewell to New York’s City Hall
Life Magazine 1946-01-21 - Polio
Life Magazine 1946-01-28 - First family portrait (the Trumans)
Life Magazine 1946-02-04 - Marion Anderson records
Life Magazine 1946-02-11 - Coca Cola and returning veterans
Life Magazine 1946-02-18 - Candy is Dandy – Keep it Handy (Valentines)
Life Magazine 1946-02-25 - Pearl Harbor Committee Report
Life Magazine 1946-03-04 - Modern kitchen
Life Magazine 1946-03-11 - Ritz crackers
Life Magazine 1946-03-18 - Eiffel tower
Life Magazine 1946-03-25 - Industrial destruction left my Russians in Manchuria
Life Magazine 1946-04-01 - Fuller House
Life Magazine 1946-04-08 - Slums of New York
Life Magazine 1946-04-15 - Hyde Park opened to public
Life Magazine 1946-04-22 - Planes in Arizona dessert
Life Magazine 1946-04-29 - Packed with good taste (ad for gum)
Life Magazine 1946-05-06 - Ice cream dixie (cups of ice cream)
Life Magazine 1946-05-13 - China famine
Life Magazine 1946-05-20 - Robin nest at the White House
Life Magazine 1946-05-27 - Test rockets in New Mexico
Life Magazine 1946-06-03 - Mr. and Mrs. Ford in 1898 Ford….the first Ford
Life Magazine 1946-06-10 - Flash floods on Susquehanna and Texas
Life Magazine 1946-06-17 - Chicago hotel fire kills 60 people
Life Magazine 1946-06-24 - Electricity (in kitchen) works for peanuts!
Life Magazine 1946-07-01 - Atomic bomb test in the Marshalls
Life Magazine 1946-07-08 - US shows off flying wing
Life Magazine 1946-07-15 - Farm machines
Life Magazine 1946-07-22 - Empire State Building suicide
Life Magazine 1946-07-29 - US produces second biggest wheat crop in history
Life Magazine 1946-08-05 - New York at night
Life Magazine 1946-08-12 - British uncover hidden weapon in Jewish farm community
Life Magazine 1946-08-19 - Yellowstone
Life Magazine 1946-08-26 - France rebuilds her railroads
Life Magazine 1946-09-02 - Glaciers in Alaska
Life Magazine 1946-09-09 - Archaeology in Arizona
Life Magazine 1946-09-16 - Model airplanes
Life Magazine 1946-09-23 - Coca Cola after school
Life Magazine 1946-09-30 - Graphic depiction of LA traffic
Life Magazine 1946-10-07 - Crowded schools
Life Magazine 1946-10-14 - Nurnberg trial ends
Life Magazine 1946-10-21 - Houston
Life Magazine 1946-10-28 - Shell Agricultural Laboratory
Life Magazine 1946-11-04 - Stranded whale (Long Island)
Life Magazine 1946-11-11 - The road back to Berlin
Life Magazine 1946-11-18 - Land of Yemen
Life Magazine 1946-11-25 - Synthetic rubber plant
Life Magazine 1946-12-02 - Margaret Wise Brown
Life Magazine 1946-12-09 - Nazi brains help US
Life Magazine 1946-12-16 - Worst hotel fire in US (Atlanta GA)
Life Magazine 1946-12-23 - Christmas Rush
Life Magazine 1946-12-30 - Europe’s children
Project Gutenberg has More Stories of the Three Little Pigs published in 1921 (a decade before my mother and father were born) and part of the Instructor Literature Series from F.A. Owen Publishing Company. It was written by Sarah Grames Clark and Illustrated by Bess Bruce Cleaveland. As I browsed the book I wondered if either of my parents saw it during their elementary school years.
Mid-Century Architecture was the subject of the Form Givers exhibit of 1959. The exhibit book is the week’s Book of the Week and is available from Internet Archive. The exhibit was organized and sponsored by Time Magazine for The American Federation of Arts. The Corcoran Gallery of Art was one of the museums to host the exhibit. I was a little surprised that there was no west coast museum (the furthest west was The Minneapolis Institute of Arts) on the list of museums even though there were examples of some west coast structures featured in the photographs.
The quote from Henry R. Luce on the title page (“…and we will succeed in creating the first modern, technological, humane, prosperous, and reverent civilization. This creative response to challenge will be most vividly expressed in and by architecture.”) reflects the optimism about the future in the late 1950s….a time just before I started school.
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in January – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. I started working my way through the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters in December; there are 4 volumes per year so I only browsed late 1980s and into the 1990s in January; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in February.
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,283 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from January’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the January 2026 eBotanical Prints!
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.14:no.4 (1985) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1985
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.15:no.1 (1986) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1986
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.15:no.2 (1986) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1986
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.16:no.1 (1987) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1987
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.16:no.2 (1987) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1987
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.16:no.3 (1987) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1987
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.16:no.4 (1987) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1987
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.17:no.1 (1988) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1988
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.17:no.2 (1988) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1988
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.17:no.3 (1988) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1988
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.17:no.4 (1988) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1988
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.18:no.1 (1989) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1989
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.18:no.2 (1989) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1989
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.18:no.3 (1989) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1989
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.18:no.4 (1989) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1989
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.20:no.3 (1991) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1991
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.20:no.4 (1991) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1991
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.21:no.3 (1992) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1992
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.22:no.3 (1993) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1993
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.23:no.2 (1994) *California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum*sample image*1994
Sir William Jardine was a Scottish naturalist in the 1800s. He edited a series of natural history books; two of them (about hummingbirds) are the pick for this week’s eBooks. They were published in 1833 and 1836 respectively and are available from Internet Archive. I picked two images from each volume…many more are available in these volumes.
Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1945, it seemed that the was pivotal: the atrocities in Europe were in the news more and trials were starting for German leader that had not killed themselves….the US succeeded in ending the war with Japan by using atomic bombs. The industry that supplied the war was being scrapped or turned to civilian uses. (Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)
Life Magazine 1945-01-01 - 5,000 tires wear out on the western front every 24 hours
Life Magazine 1945-01-08 - Evening of July 25 in Normandy (painting)
Life Magazine 1945-01-15 - Granite stones for Hitler’s victory monument
Life Magazine 1945-01-22 - Western Electric ad
Life Magazine 1945-01-29 - Vegetable of War in the Southwest
Life Magazine 1945-02-05 - Murder in the Snow (where Germans shot US prisoners
Life Magazine 1945-02-12 - Trench foot
Life Magazine 1945-02-19 - Dalai Lama
Life Magazine 1945-02-26 - Soldiers in Germany (winter)
Life Magazine 1945-03-05 - Iwo Jima
Life Magazine 1945-03-12 - Glass manufacturing
Life Magazine 1945-03-19 - Germans crumble in the west
Life Magazine 1945-03-26 - German girl in ruins of Cologne
Life Magazine 1945-04-02 - Coca Cola ad
Life Magazine 1945-04-09 - American paratrooper….east of the Rhine
Life Magazine 1945-04-16 - Ford ad
Life Magazine 1945-04-23 - Roosevelt's death
Life Magazine 1945-04-30 - Hitler's hideout
Life Magazine 1945-05-07 - Belsen
Life Magazine 1945-05-14 - Nazi suicides
Life Magazine 1945-05-21 - London goes wild on VE day
Life Magazine 1945-05-28 - Okinawa
Life Magazine 1945-06-04 - Battered face of Germany
Life Magazine 1945-06-11 - Middle East oil
Life Magazine 1945-06-18 - Americans battle for Okinawa
Life Magazine 1945-06-25 - Harry Truman's Missouri
Life Magazine 1945-07-02 - Hitler's eyrie
Life Magazine 1945-07-09 - Japanese surrenders are increasing
Life Magazine 1945-07-16 - Caricatures of correspondents
Life Magazine 1945-07-23 - Berlin
Life Magazine 1945-07-30 - Postwar Jeep
Life Magazine 1945-08-06 - Empire State Building fire
Life Magazine 1945-08-13 - General Motors: refrigerators and airplane propeller blades
Life Magazine 1945-08-20 - Atomic bomb
Life Magazine 1945-08-27 - Victorious China
Life Magazine 1945-09-03 - Planes scrapped
Life Magazine 1945-09-10 - Battered Tokyo
Life Magazine 1945-09-17 - Hiroshima
Life Magazine 1945-09-24 - Coca Cola ad
Life Magazine 1945-10-01 - International Harvester ad
Life Magazine 1945-10-08 - Masks worn in Hiroshima
Life Magazine 1945-10-15 - Nagasaki
Life Magazine 1945-10-22 - USS Battan in Panama Canal
Life Magazine 1945-10-29 - USS Enterprise I New York Harbor
Life Magazine 1945-11-05 - Solar eclipse
Life Magazine 1945-11-12 - Waterfront fire - Chicago
Life Magazine 1945-11-19 - British brides
Life Magazine 1945-11-26 - Graveyard of US Liberty ships
Life Magazine 1945-12-03 - Berlin children
Life Magazine 1945-12-10 - International Harvester ad
Life Magazine 1945-12-17 - Housing shortage
Life Magazine 1945-12-24 - Tom Wolf and Asheville NC
Life Magazine 1945-12-31 - Big snow in Buffalo
Four books by Thorton W. Burgess are this week’s book of the week. They were published between 1911 and 1920 – available on Project Gutenberg for online viewing. He was a prolific writer of children’s books and a conservationist. These are some of his earlies books and are well-illustrated.
Mother West Wind's Animal Friends
The ‘book of the week’ is a catalog from an exhibition of art that started at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in second quarter of 1976 and then to other museums around the country until May 1978. It is available from Internet Archive.
This year will be the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence being adopted…and there will probably be similar exhibits celebrating the nation through art this year. I remember 1976 from the perspective of living in the Dallas area, working full time and taking classed toward my biology degree at night; I was so busy during the week most of the time at home was spent asleep; my husband and I had a weekly out-to-eat between my work and evening classes as a time to talk/catch up with each other. I was a little aware of special construction projects and celebrations that happened with the bicentennial and probably went to see some fireworks….but don’t remember seeing any associated art exhibits! Maybe this year will be different. I’d rather see a drone show than fireworks (better air quality) and being in an air-conditioned museum in July sounds good to me!
America 1976: a Bicentennial Exhibition Sponsored by the United States Department of the Interior
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in December – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. I started working my way through the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters in December; there are 4 volumes per year so I only browsed the first ones from the first half of the 1980s; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in January.
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,263 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from December’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the December 2025 eBotanical Prints!
Hortus Lindenianus : recueil iconographique des plantes nouvelles introduites par l'établissement * Linden, Jean Jules * sample image * 1859
Indicateur de Maine et Loire V2 * Millet de La Turtaudière, Pierre-Aimé * sample image * 1864
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.10:no.1 (1981) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1981
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.10:no.2 (1981) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1981
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.10:no.3 (1981) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1981
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.10:no.4 (1981) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1981
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.11:no.1 (1982) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1982
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.11:no.2 (1982) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1982
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.11:no.3 (1982) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1982
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.12:no.1 (1983) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1983
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.12:no.2 (1983) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1983
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.12:no.3 (1983) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1983
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.12:no.4 (1983) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1983
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.13:no.1 (1984) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1984
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.13:no.2 (1984) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1984
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.13:no.3 (1984) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1984
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.13:no.4 (1984) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1984
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.14:no.1 (1985) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1985
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.14:no.2 (1985) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1985
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.14:no.3 (1985) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 1985
The book I am highlighting this week is the exhibit book from a 1976 exhibit of Louise Herreshoff paintings at Washington and Lee University and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. When the artist died in 1967, she had not painted since her aunt (her foster mother) had died in 1927; her paintings were discovered when movers came to move her extensive porcelain collection from her home to Washington and Lee University – as directed by her will! The book is available from Internet Archive.
"Weggeloopen!" was published in 1919 – a story about a mischievous boy named Paul, who frequently disobeys his parents and often gets into trouble. The illustrator was Cecil Aldin – a British artist and illustrator. The book contains many of his drawings which depict the time in the first decades of the 1900s. It is available from Project Gutenberg.
There are quite a few books illustrated by Cecil Aldin available on Internet Archive, but this is the only one not in English! Because of the publication date, I wondered if the illustrations for this book were done after his only son died in World War I in 1916.
Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1944, I thought about how the US was focused on the war and, while the war seemed to be moving in favor of the Allies, it was brutal. Casualties were mounting and at the end of the year the battle was still raging on. (Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)
Life Magazine 1944-01-03 - US civilians buy their first jeep
Life Magazine 1944-01-10 - Bob Hope
Life Magazine 1944-01-17 - Rockets
Life Magazine 1944-01-24 - X-rays
Life Magazine 1944-01-31 - Yesterday’s battlefield
Life Magazine 1944-02-07 - USS Missouri
Life Magazine 1944-02-14 - Kansas raises fine families
Life Magazine 1944-02-21 - Evacuation hospital
Life Magazine 1944-02-28 - Pullman ad
Life Magazine 1944-03-06 - Belmont Radio ad
Life Magazine 1944-03-13 - Attu Island
Life Magazine 1944-03-13 - Tule Lake Hospital (Japanese Interment)
Life Magazine 1944-03-27 - Worst garden weeds
Life Magazine 1944-04-03 - Oil wells
Life Magazine 1944-04-10 - Dyslexia
Life Magazine 1944-04-17 - April snow in New York City
Life Magazine 1944-04-24 - Spring 1944
Life Magazine 1944-05-01 - Ruined Anzio
Life Magazine 1944-05-08 - Steamboat on the Mississippi
Life Magazine 1944-05-15 - Troop train
Life Magazine 1944-05-22 - In the Aleutians
Life Magazine 1944-05-29 - US submarine saves airmen
Life Magazine 1944-06-05 - Woman in California shipbuilding
Life Magazine 1944-06-12 - Rome falls
Life Magazine 1944-06-19 - Ships bring back wounded and dead
Life Magazine 1944-06-26 - Palmyra atoll
Life Magazine 1944-07-03 - Taps Normandy: June 1944
Life Magazine 1944-07-10 - B-29
Life Magazine 1944-07-17 - Penicillin
Life Magazine 1944-07-24 - War ravages Italy’s art
Life Magazine 1944-07-31 - Infantile paralysis (polio)
Life Magazine 1944-08-07 - Swedish glass
Life Magazine 1944-08-14 - Marshal Tito
Life Magazine 1944-08-21 - Truman of Missouri
Life Magazine 1944-08-28 - Invasion array
Life Magazine 1944-09-04 - Korea
Life Magazine 1944-09-11 - Dutch Elm Disease
Life Magazine 1944-09-18 - Brussels
Life Magazine 1944-09-25 - US production soars
Life Magazine 1944-10-02 - First battle of German begins
Life Magazine 1944-10-09 - Wartime England
Life Magazine 1944-10-16 - Fading Newport
Life Magazine 1944-10-23 - Colorado River
Life Magazine 1944-10-30 - Omaha Beach
Life Magazine 1944-11-06 - Kitchen preview
Life Magazine 1944-11-13 - Sea floods Holland
Life Magazine 1944-11-20 - Roosevelt wins a 3rd term
Life Magazine 1944-11-27 - Moscow
Life Magazine 1944-12-04 - Hitler
Life Magazine 1944-12-11 - List of US war causalities
Life Magazine 1944-12-18 - The battlefield of Germany
Life Magazine 1944-12-25 - Civil War breaks out in Greece
Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in November – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. The publication dates span 360 years (1600 to 1960) for these 20 volumes.
There are two series this month:
3 volumes of Fungi by M.F. Lewis (The Internet Archive abstract: Relatively little is known of Miss Lewis, but the quality of drawings, spanning over 40 years, shows her to have been an extremely skilled artist and mycologist)
8 volumes of Bothalia, a scientific journal from the National Herbarium at the University of South Africa
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,243 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from November’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the November 2025 eBotanical Prints!
Flowering plants from the gardens of Lord Bute at Luton Hoo * Taylor, Simon * sample image * 1770
A collection of engraved and etched flower plates * Monnoyer, Jean Baptiste * sample image * 1680
Three studies of trees * Farrer, Henry * sample image * 1900
Variae ac multiformes florum species appressae ad vivum et aeneis tabulis incisae * Robert, Nicolas * sample image * 1600
Autumn leaves of America. Coloured from nature * Robbins, Ellen * sample image * 1870
The shape, skeleton and foliage of 32 species of Trees * Cozens, Alexander * sample image * 1786
Illustrations of orchidaceous plants * Bauer, Franz Andreas * sample image * 1830
Collection of 52 watercolour drawings of Madagascar orchids * Cowan, William Deans * sample image * 1880
Fungii Vol 1 * Lewis, M.F. * sample image * 1902
Fungii Vol 2 * Lewis, M.F. * sample image * 1902
Fungii Vol 3 * Lewis, M.F. * sample image * 1902
An Album of Flowers * German School * sample image * 1630
Bothalia - V4 Part 2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1941
Bothalia - V5 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1950
Bothalia - V4 Part 3 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1948
Bothalia - V6 Part 1 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1951
Bothalia - V6 Part 2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1954
Bothalia - V6 Part 2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1956
Bothalia - V7 Part 1 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1958
Bothalia - V7 Part 2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1960
Leonard Leslie Brooke was a leading children’s book illustrator in the early 1900s. This week’s book of the week is his Ring o' Roses published in 1907 and available from Project Gutenberg. There are 4 sample images from the book below. Enjoy!
Paul du Chaillu was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s for his reports from central Africa; he was the first modern European to confirm the existence of gorillas and the Pygmy people. He collected type specimens for species of bushbaby, bat, squirrel and 39 birds! This week’s eBook is one he published later in his life (in 1900) drawing on his African experiences. The illustrations are done by C.R. Knight and J.M. Gleeson.
Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1943, the ads that almost always have a linkage to the war stand out. Every issue had one or more articles about the war too. The magazine depicted a country pulling hard to support the military and the war effort.
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