Herbarium Blackwellianum, Plate 109
Historical botanical works can be viewed in their entirety through the library's Digital Collections, including:
Herbarium Blackwellianum Botanic Garden Botanicon Parisiense Hortus Sanitatis in Natural History - Original Investigations
Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists
Women of Flowers: a Tribute to Victorian Women Illustrators by 
Marianne North At Kew Gardens
Maria Sibylla Merian: the St. Petersburg Watercolours
Drawn from Nature: the Botanical Art of Joseph Prestele and His Sons by "Of all the varied objects of creation there is, probably, no portion that affords so much gratification and delight to mankind as plants..."
- Elizabeth Twining, as quoted in Women of Flowers by Jack Kramer
Joseph Banks' Florilegium: botanical treasures from Cook's first voyage
Eye for Detail: images of plants and animals in art and science, 1500-1630
Botanical Art from the Golden Age of Scientific Discovery
Drawn after Nature: the complete botanical watercolours of the 16th-century Libri Picturati
The Illustration of Plants & Gardens 1500-1850
Garden Eden: Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration by 
The Art of Botanical Illustration by 
