Title An Oak Spring Herbaria : herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries : a selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon / Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi & Tony Willis ; edited with a description of the American herbals by Mark Argetsinger ; translated from the Italian by Lisa Chien.

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Upperville, Virginia : Oak Spring Garden Library, 2009.

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Description	1 online resource : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	The Rachel Lambert Mellon collection
	Oak Spring Garden Library. Rachel Lambert Mellon collection.
Note	Series statement on preliminary page.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	I. Late medieval herbals -- II. The great age of Renaissance botany -- III. Herbals and plants from distant lands -- IV. Herbals by herbalists, pharmacists, and physicians -- V. Herbals of the botanical gardens and private gardens of Europe -- VI. Curious and strange herbals -- VII. Dried specimans and nature printing -- VIII. American herbals.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Oak Spring Garden Library -- Catalogs.
	Oak Spring Garden Library.
Genre/Form	Catalogs.
Subject	Mellon, Bunny, 1910-2014. -- Art collections -- Catalogs.
	Mellon, Bunny, 1910-2014.
	Art museums.
	Mellon, Bunny, 1910-2014. -- Library -- Catalogs.
	Botanical illustration.
	Botanical illustration.
	Botanical illustration -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.
	Herbs -- Illustrations -- Bibliography.
	Herbs.
Genre/Form	Illustrated works.
Subject	Herbals -- Illustrations -- Bibliography.
	Herbals -- Illustrations.
	Herbals.
	Rare books -- Virginia -- Upperville -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.
	Rare books.
	Virginia -- Upperville.
Genre/Form	Bibliographies.
	Electronic books.
	Bibliographies.
	Catalogs.
	Catalogs.
	Bibliographies.
	Pictures.
	Pictures.
Added Author	Willis, Tony, author.
	Argetsinger, Mark, author.
	Chien, Lisa C., translator.
	Oak Spring Garden Library.
Added Title	Herbaria
ISBN	9780300241464 (electronic book)
	0300241461 (electronic book)
	9780965450812

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