One of the finest, most extensive sources of royalty-free illustrations of the world's plants and flowers, carefully selected from botanical archives for scientific accuracy, artistic style, and reproduction quality. For easy reference, both common and botanical Latin names are given for each species and combined into two indexes. 1,761 black-and-white illustrations.
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Flowers, Butterflies and Insects: All 154 Engravings from "Erucarum Ortus" by Maria Sibylla Merian Exquisite fine-line royalty-free images of flowers, plants, and insect life in elegant full-page compositions. Reprinted from the illustrated works of the famed artist/entomologist, with new English captions.
Heck’s Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science by J. G. Heck 5,500 illustrations from the 19th century include star maps, animals, plants, minerals, fossils, geological formations, human anatomy, and much more.
Decorative Floral Woodcuts of the Sixteenth Century by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau Approximately 220 royalty-free illustrations of plants and flowers, all identified: lavender, asparagus, and honeysuckle plants; maple, almond, apricot, apple and peach trees; and scores of other specimens.
Big Book of Plant and Flower Illustrations by Maggie Kate Over 600 royalty-free illustrations for artists, desktop publishers, and craftworkers accurately depict wildflowers, trees, herbs, cacti, tropical blooms, garden flowers, medicinal plants, and much more. Identifying captions.
Redouté Flowers and Fruits CD-ROM and Book by Pierre-Joseph Redouté Exquisite collection by the most celebrated artist in the history of botanical art includes 184 meticulous reproductions of original watercolors: lilies, tulips, roses, cherries, crocus, and other plants.
Plants & Flowers as Ornament CD-ROM and Book by Th. M. M. van Grieken From a rare 19th-century volume of botanical art come these extraordinary floral images. More than 300 colorful, finely detailed decorations include both fanciful and realistic motifs that will lend enchantment to any project.
