Medical and Economic Botany Lit from Google Books

Topical Intro

Books about the medical uses of plants which, given that plants were the major source of medicines as well as food pre-1900, are most plentiful. Many multi-volume sets featuring beautiful color illustrations were produced to enable the average person as well as medical professionals to tell which plant was which. The phrase "materia medica" was used to categorize plants useful for medical applications. We also include early texts on "economic botany," which include the medical plants as well as plants used for food, shelter, etc., with quite a few of the plants considered valuable 100 or more years ago unknown today.

General Intro

Herein is my personal catalog of reference and other books of particular interest to me that have been scanned and made available in PDF format via Google Books. They've proved a really marvelous resource, and one which is getting steadily better, larger and more useful. While it's handy and convenient to let them store the things so they'll be at your fingertips whenever you're on the web, a cautionary type might want to download copies of at least the ones of most interest. Google is a corporation, with more rights - thanks to Big Tony and the Supremes - and less responsibilities than these anachronisms we call individuals, and they can do whatever they bloody well want to at any time they want to do it.

This is all here because either I can't figure out how to use the tools Google Books provides to do this, or their tools are insufficient and overly fussy. I'm betting the latter.

Feel free to borrow any or all of this, with the understanding that an attribution will keep the karma dogs off your ass.

On a technical note, I've attempted to extract informative or at least entertaining bits from the prefaces or other parts of some of the books. These will appear in this differently colored format which, thankfully, at least isn't blinking. These extracts may contain extraneous artifacts from Google's OCR rendering of the PDF scans into text that I've been too lazy to fix.

On another technical note, I'll occasionally add reviews, comments, etc. from sources external to the books, which will added in a wee font like this.

On a really annoying technical note, some entries will be shown in blue. These are so indicated because they exist and should - by any reading of copyright law not involving Sonny Bono and DisneyCorp - be available. Their non-availability makes me blue in the Buddy Guy way.

If you feel you must get in touch with me so you can send me mint copies of any or all of the books listed below, then send some electrons to baum@stommel.tamu.edu.

Herbal, Medicinal, Pharmacological, Ethnobotanical, Materia Medica, Etc.

Bibliographies Etc.

Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England from Its Origin to the Introduction of the Linnaean System (1790) - Richard Pulteney

Guide to the Literature of Botany: Being a Classified Selection of Botanical Works (1881, 626) - Benjamin Daydon Jackson

Vegetable Technology: A Contribution Towards a Bibliography of Economic Botany (1882, 355) - Benjamin Daydon Jackson, George James Symons

History of Botany (1530-1860) (1890, 568) - Julius Sachs, Isaac Bayley Balfour, Henry Garnsey

A Bibliography of Australian Economic Botany (1892, 61) - Joseph Henry Maiden

Biblioteca Botanico-Mexicano (1895, 372) - Nicolas Leon

A History of Botany in the United Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the End of the 19th Century (1914, 648) - Joseph Reynolds Green

Monographs

The Names of Herbes (1548 & 1881, 134) - William Turner, James Britten

Medicina Britannica; or, A Treatise on Such Physical Plants, as Are Generally to be Found in the Fields or Gardens in Great-Britain (1746, 352) - Thomas Short

Tractatus de Materia Medica (1756-1760) - Etienne Francois Geoffroy

Precis de la Matiere Medicale (1777) - Joseph Lieutaud

Icones Plantarum Medicinalium (1779-1790) - Johannes Zorn, Carl von Linne

Pharmacopoea Generalis (1786, 216) - Jacob Reinbold Spielmann

Apparatus Medicaminum Tam Simplicium Quam Praeparatorum et Compositorum in Praxeos Adiumentum (1787-1791) - Johan Anders Murray

The New Family Herbal; or, Domestic Physician (1790, 498) - William Meyrick

The American Herbal; or, Materia Medica (1801, 360) - Samuel Stearns

The English Physician: Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine Medicines Made of English Herbs (1809, 389) - Nicholas Culpeper, Dr. Parkins

A New Family Herbal: or, Popular Account of the Natures and Properties of the Various Plants Used in Medicine, Diet, and the Arts (1810, 901) - Robert John Thornton

The Family Herbal; or, An Account of All Those English Plants, Which Are Remarkable for Their Virtues (1812, 376) - John Hill

A Botanical Materia Medica (1812) - Jonathan Stokes

Materia Medica of Hindoostan (1813, 301) - Whitelaw Ainslie

The Edinburgh New Dispensatory, 7th Ed. (1813, 743) - Andrew Duncan, William Lewis

A New and Complete American Medical Family Herbal (1814, 393) - Samuel Henry

American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States (1817-1821) - Jacob Bigelow

Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States; or, Medical Botany (1817-1818) - William Paul Crillon Barton

Flore Medicale des Antilles; ou, Traite des Plantes Usuelles des Colonies Francaises, Anglaises, Espagnoles et Portugaises (1821-1829) - Michel Etienne Desourtilz (8 volumes)

History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal, Edible, and Chemical Qualities (1822) - Henry Phillips

Medical Flora; or, Manual of Medical Botany of the United States of North America: Vol. 1: A-H (1828, 268) - Constantine Samuel Rafinesque

Flora Medica: Containing Coloured Delineations of the Various Medicinal Plants (1829-1830) - George Spratt

A Description and History of Vegetable Substances, Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy, 2nd Ed. (1830, 422) - Charles Knight

Handbuch der Medicinisch-Pharmaceutischen Botanik (1830-1832) - Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Ness von Esenbeck, Karl Heinrich Ebermaier

Medical Botany; or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharmacopoeias (1831) - John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill

Allgemeine Medizinisch-Pharmazeutische Flora (1831-1836) - Vincenz Franz Kosteletzky

Medical Botany: Containing Systematic and General Descriptions, with Plates of All the Medicinal Plants, 3rd Ed. (1832) - William Woodville, William Jackson Hooker, George Pratt

Alphabet of Medical Botany, for the Use of Beginners (1834, 152) - James Rennie

A Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia, and Treatise on Pharmacology in General, 6th Ed. (1836, 446) - Samuel Frederick Gray

Flora Medica: A Botanical Account of All the More Important Plants Used in Medicine in Different Parts of the World (1838, 655) - John Lindley

A Scripture Herbal (1842, 544) - Maria Callcott

Flore Medicale (1842) - Francois-Pierre Chaumeton et al.

Systema Materiae Medicae Vegetabilis Brasiliensis (1843, 155) - Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius

The Complete Herbal (1843, 398) - Nicholas Culpeper

Medical Botany: or, Descriptions of the More Useful Plants Used in Medicine (1847, 704) - Robert Eglesfeld Griffith

The American Flora; or, History of Plants and Wild Flowers (1848-1860) - Asa B. Strong

Florae Capensis Medicae Prodromus; or, An Enumeration of South African Indigenous Plants Used a Remedies (1850, 32) - L. Pappe

The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, 4th Ed. (1854-1856) - Jonathan Pereira

A History of the Vegetable Kingdom (1857, 720) - William Rhind

American Weeds and Useful Plants (1859, 460) - William Darlington, George Thurber

Les Plantes Industrielles (1859-1895) - Gustave Heuze

Notes on Chinese Materia Medica (1862, 48) - Daniel Hanbury

Album de la Flora Medico-Farmaceutica e Industrial, Indigena y Exotica (1862-1864) - Vicente Martin de Argenta

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural, Being Also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States (1863, 601) - Francis Peyre Porcher

Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part Never Before Printed, Illustrating the History of Science in This Country Before the Norman Conquest (1864-1866) - Oswald Cockayne

Essay on the Trees and Shrubs of the Ancients (1865, 152) - Charles Daubeny

The Complete Herbalist; or, The People Their Own Physicians by the Use of Nature's Remedies (1866, 408) - Oliver Phelps Brown

Histoire et Legendes des Plantes Utiles et Curieuses (1868, 371) - Jean Pierre Rambosson

Contributions Towards the Materia Medica and Natural History of China (1871, 237) - F. P. Smith

The Useful Plants of India: With Notices of Their Chief Value in Commerce, Medicine, and the Arts, 2nd Ed. (1873, 512) - Heber Drury

The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874-1879) - Timothy Field Allen (10 volumes)

Traite de Therapeutique et de Matiere Medicale, Neuvieme Edition (1875-1877) - Armand Trousseau

Nouvelle Botanique Medicale (1876-1883) - Eugene Lesacher, August Alexandre Mareschal

The Materia Medica of the Hindus (1877, 354) - Udoy Chand Dutt, George King

The British Flora Medica: A History of the Medicinal Plants of Great Britain, New Ed. (1877, 447) - Benjamin Herbert Barton, Thomas Castle, Thomas Reader Jackson

Pharmacographia: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met With in Great Britain and British India (1879, 803) - Friedrich August Fluckiger, Daniel Hanbury

Old Country and Farming Words: Gleaned from Agricultural Books (1880, 191) - James Britten

English Plant Names from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century (1880, 122) - John Earle

Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal Plants Employed in Medicine (1880) - Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen

The Plants and Drugs of Sind: Being a Systematic Account, With Descriptions, of the Indigenous Flora (1881, 219) - James A. Murray

Handworterbuch der Pharmakognosie Pflanzenreichs (1882, 994) - Georg Christian Wittstein

Botanicum Sinicum: Notes on Chinese Botany from Native and Western Sources (1882-1895) - E. Bretschneider

Deutsche Flora: Pharmaceutisch-Medicinische Botanik (1883, 1284) - Hermann Karsten

Nouveau Dictionnnaire des Plantes Medicinales (1884, 621) - Auguste Heraud

A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America (1884, 292) - Laurence Johnson

Flowers and Flower Lore, 2nd Ed. (1884, 704) - Hilderic Friend

The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare (1884, 438) - Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

Plant Lore, Legends and Lyrics: Embracing the Myths, Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-Lore of the Plant Kingdom (1884, 610) - Richard Folkard

The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India, 2nd Ed. (1885, 1012) - William Dymock

A Dictionary of English Plant-Names (1886, 618) - James Britten, Robert Holland

American Medicinal Plants: An Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to the American Plants Used as Homeopathic Remedies (1887) - Charles Frederick Millspaugh

Cultural Industries for Queensland: Papers on the Cultivation of Useful Plants Suited to the Climate of Queensland (1888, 230) - Adolphus Bernays

A Synopsis of the Medical Botany of the United States (1888, 176) - James Madison Gore Carter

Historia das Plantas Medicianaes e Uteis do Brazil (1888-1896) - Theodor Peckolt, Gustavo Peckolt

Plantes Medicinales du Chili (1889, 234) - Adolfo Murilo

The Folk-Lore of Plants (1889, 328) - Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer

Commercial Botany of the Nineteenth Century (1890, 168) - John Reader Jackson

Pharmacographia Indica: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met with in British India (1890-1893) - William Dymock, C. J. H. Warden, David Hooper

The Pharmacology of the Newer Materia Medica (1892, 1307) - George S. Davis

Datos Para La Materia Medica Mexicana (1894-1898) - Fernando Altamirano

Select Extra-Tropical Plants: Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture or Naturalisation (1895, 654) - Ferdinand von Mueller

A Guide to the Organic Drugs of the United States Pharmacopoeia 1890 (1895, 114) - John Shepard Wright

The Indigenous Drugs of India, 2nd Ed. (1896, 387) - Kanny Lall Dey, William Mair

Remarks on the Uses of Some of the Bazaar Medicines and Common Medical Plants of India (1897, 292) - Edward John Waring

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, 2nd Ed. (1897, 651) - William Thomas Fernie

Medicinal Plants Which Have Been Collected and Used in North Carolina (1898, 78) - Charles Walter Hyams

Les Plantes Utiles du Senegal: Plantes Indigenes - Plantes Exotiques (1899, 341) - A. Sebire

Notes on Useful Plants of Mexico (1899, 51) - Joseph Nelson Rose

Animal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure (1899, 565) - William Thomas Fernie

An Introduction to the Study of Materia Medica: Being a Short Account of the More Important Crude Drugs of Vegetable and Animal Origin (1899, 511) - Henry George Greenish

The Ethno-Botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern California (1900, 82) - David Prescott Barrows

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Atlas Colorie des Plantes Medicinales Indigenes (1900, 221) - Paul Hariot

Medicinal Plants of the Philippines (1901, 269) - Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera

Origin of Cultivated Plants (1902, 468) - Alphonse de Candolle

Maule's Seed Catalogue (1902, 138) - Wm. Henry Maule

Materia Medica of India and Their Therapeutics (1903, 809) - Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory

Economic Plants of Porto Rico (1903, 213) - Orator Fuller Cook, Guy N. Collins

The Book of Herbs (1903, 212) - Rosalind Northcote

Plantas Comestibles de Los Antiguos Mexicanos (1904, 89) - Manual Urbina

Materia Medica Mexicana: A Manual of Mexican Medicinal Herbs (1904, 78) - Fernando Altamirano

The Useful Plants of the Island of Guam (1905, 416) - William Edwin Safford

Lista de Algunas Plantas Medicinales de las Republicas Oriental y Argentina (1906, 77) - Ernesto Paccard

Wild Medicinal Plants of the United States (1906, 76) - Alice Henkel

A Text-Book of Botany and Pharmacognosy, 2nd Ed. (1907, 840) - Henry Kraemer

American Root Drugs (1907, 80) - Alice Henkel

Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants (1908, 317) - Arthur Robert Harding

American Medicinal Barks (1909, 59) - Alice Henkel

The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah (1911, 77) - Ralph Vary Chamberlin

History of the Vegetable Drugs of the Pharmacopeia of the United States (1911, 135) - John Uri Lloyd

American Medicinal Leaves and Herbs (1911, 56) - Alice Henkel

Pharmacal Plants and Their Culture (1912, 175) - Albert Schneider

Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution, A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670 (1912, 253) - Agnes Arber

Scientific and Applied Pharmacognosy (1915, 857) - Henry Kraemer

Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians (1916, 124) - Wilfred William Robbins et al.

Histology of Medicinal Plants (1916, 305) - William Mansfield

Botanic Drugs: Their Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics (1917, 394) - Thomas Stewart Blair

Weeds Used in Medicine (1917, 43) - Alice Henkel

Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants (1919, 696) - U. P. Hedrick, ed.

Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region (1919, 110) - Melvin Randolph Gilmore

The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family (1919-1922) - Nathaniel Lord Britton, J. N. Rose

Useful Wild Plants of the United States and Canada (1920, 275) - Charles Francis Saunders

Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses (1920, 143) - Maurice Grenville Kains

The Microanalysis of Powdered Vegetable Drugs, 2nd Ed. (1921, 548) - Albert Schneider

A Text Book of Pharmacognosy (1921, 538) - Heber Wilkinson Youngken

Pharmacognosy is the science which treats of the history, commerce, collection, selection, identification, valuation and preservation of crude drugs, and other raw materials of vegetable and animal origin.

Pharmaceutical Botany: A Text-Book (1921, 479) - Heber Wilkinson Youngken

The Old English Herbals (1922, 243) - Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Old Time Gardens: Newly Set Forth (1922, 489) - Alice Morse Earle

A Garden of Herbs: Being a Practical Handbook to the Making of an Old English Herb Garden (1922, 232) - Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Recent Publications

The Plant Sciences: Now and In the Coming Decade (1966, 167) - NRC

Tropical Legumes: Resources for the Future (1979, 331) - NRC

Notes on Trees and Shrubs in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions (1983, 270) - Michel Baumer

Food and Fruit-Bearing Forest Species. 3: Examples from Latin America (1986, 308) - FAO

Non-Timber Uses of Selected Arid Zone Trees and Shrubs in Africa (1988, 176) - F. E. M. Booth, G. E. Wickens

Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes (1988, 415)

Dibble Sticks, Donkeys, and Diesels: Machines in Crop Production (1990, 329) - Joseph K. Campbell

Ethnobotany and Medicinal Plants (1993, 107) - Susan A. McCarthy

Medicinal Plants: Rescuing a Global Heritage (1997, 61) - John Lambert, Jitendra Srivastava, Noel Vietmeyer

Medicinal Plants for Forest Conservation and Health Care (1998, 164) - FAO

Neglected Leafy Green Vegetables Crops in Africa (1999, 110) - IPGRI

WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants (1999-2002) - WHO

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Bio-Medicine (2001) - Rita Singh

Riches of the Forest: Fruits, Remedies and Handicrafts in Latin America (2004, 140) - Citlalli Lopez Binnquist

Report of a Working Group on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (2004, 161) - IPGRI

Frutiferas e Plantas Uteis na Vida Amazonica (2005, 304) - Patricia Shanley, Gabriel Medina

The Origins of Agriculture: An International Perspective (2006, 224) - C. Wesley Cowan et al.

Direct Uses of Medicinal Plants and Their Identification (2008, 423) - R. Vardhana

Plant Resources of Tropical Africa: Medicinal Plants 1 (2008, 792) - Gabriella Harriet Schmelzer et al.

The General History of Drugs, Vol. I (2010, 436) - Antonio Escohotado

PERIODICALS

The Gardener's Chronicle: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects (1885-?)

Gardeners Chronicle and New Horticulturalist (1888-?)

Journal of Materia Medica

The Plant World (1898-?)

Curtis's Botanical Magazine