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Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden Digitized Collections: Trees, Forests, Sedges & Ferns

The Rare Book Collection of the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden offers a comprehensive perspective on five centuries of research in botany, botanical art, horticulture, agriculture, gardening, and landscape design.

Forests

Illustration: Albert Berg

Physiognomy of tropical vegetation in South America : a series of views illustrating the primeval forests on the river Magdalena, and in the Andes of New Granada : with a fragment of a letter from Baron Humboldt to the author, and a preface by Frederick K
Berg, Albert, 1825-1884.

Ferns, etc

Illustration: James Bolton

Filices britannicae : an history of the British proper ferns : with plain and accurate descriptions, and new figures of all the species and varieties, taken from an immediate and careful inspection of the plants in their natural state, and engraved on thi
Bolton, James, naturalist.
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Trees and Shrubs

Illustratons: Jacob George Strutt, left; Charles de Kirwan, right.

Flore forestière illustrée : arbres et arbustes du centre de l'Europe : description générale, organographie, culture, habitat, produits principaux et accessoires : ouvrage orné de dix-huit planches en chromolithographie : contenant 350 figures / C. d
Charles de Kirwan, 1829-1917.
Sylva Britannica, or, Portraits of forest trees : distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude, or beauty / drawn from nature and etched by Jacob George Strutt.
Jacob George Strutt, 1790-1864.
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Stories from the Rare Book Collection: Depicting majestic trees: Jacob Strutt's portrayal of arbor nobility
Jacob Strutt (1784–1867) had developed a fine reputation as a portrait painter in early nineteenth century England. This business was financially and professionally significant for Strutt, but in the 1820s he turned his attention from people to trees. Why?

Sedges

Cyperaceae / exposuit C.G. Nees ab Esenbeck.
Author: Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. (Christian Gottfried), 1776-1858. Published: [Breslau? : s.n., 1841] Note: Preprinted from Nova Acta Leop. 19, suppl. 1

Illustration: C.G. Nees ab Esenbeck