The Language of Flowers: An Alphabet of Floral Emblems (1857)

Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)

Plants and Their Application to Ornament (1896)

Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814)

Ogawa Kazumasa’s Hand-Coloured Photographs of Flowers (1896)

Images from William Saville-Kent’s The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893)

Hamonshu: A Japanese Book of Wave and Ripple Designs (1903)

Ernst Haeckel’s Jellyfish

The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)

On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata (1868)

William Sharp’s Chromolithographs of The Great Water Lily (1854)

Growing Things: A Film Lesson in “Nature Study” (1928)

The Strange Adventures of a Pebble (1921)

Miniatures from a 12th-century Medical and Herbal Collection

Illustrations from a Descriptive Iconography of Cacti (1841)

Album of Seaweed Pictures (1848)

Celestial Phenomenon Over Nuremberg, April 14th, 1561

Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday (1902)

The American Woods

Phenomena Over and Under the Earth (1878)

Francis Bacon on Gardens (1902)

Cyanotypes of British Algae by Anna Atkins (1843)

The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling (1910)

Watercolours from a 16th-Century De Materia Medica