This portion of the exhibit displays some of the beautiful book covers from the Botany Libraries collections.
Table of Contents
- Bound in Intrigue
- Pietro Crescenzi
- Ames bookbindings
- Book covers
- Travels in the East Indian Archipelago by Albert Smith Bickmore
- Natural History Rambles: Ponds and Ditches by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
- Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow by Asa Gray
- The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature by Georg Hartwig
- Ling-Nam by Benjamin Couch Henry
- Natural History, Lore and Legend by Edward F. Hulme
- Studies of Trees in Winter by Annie Oakes Huntington
- A Tour Round My Garden by Alphonse Karr
- Danish Greenland: its people and products by Hinrich Rink
- Field Book of Common Gilled Mushrooms by William S. Thomas
- Im Afrikanischen Urwald by Franz Thonner
- Journey Across the Western Interior of Australia by Peter Egerton Warburton
- Common Objects of the Microscope by John George Wood
- A Naturalist Among the Head-Hunters by Charles Morris Woodford
- Sources
Additional Resources
- The Center for Bookarts.
- Columbia University Libraries Judging a Book by it's Cover.
- Michigan State University Libraries How to Judge a Book by it's Cover.
Contact Us
Send inquiries, comments, corrections or updates to botref@oeb.harvard.edu
Botany Libraries
22 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
phone 617.495.2366
Web Exhibit Created 2011.
Authored by Sarah Burke (Pietro Crescenzi), Elise Ramsey (Ames) and Tessa Updike (Book Covers). They would like to thank the librarians of the Botany Libraries for their generous assistance throughout the project.
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