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Five flowering plants, including a sedge (Carex species) and stemless gentian (Gentiana acaulis). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.

Soldanella alpina: entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

Mountain avens (Dryas geoides): entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.

Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.

Holidays on high lands, or, Rambles and incidents in search of Alpine plants / by Hugh Macmillan.

Plant life in Alpine Switzerland : being an account in simple language of the natural history of Alpine plants / by E.A. Newell Arber ... Illustrated by 48 plates of photographs from nature, and 30 figures in the text.

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Holidays on high lands, or, Rambles and incidents in search of Alpine plants / by Hugh Macmillan.

Five flowering plants, including a sedge (Carex species) and stemless gentian (Gentiana acaulis). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.

Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.

Plant life in Alpine Switzerland : being an account in simple language of the natural history of Alpine plants / by E.A. Newell Arber ... Illustrated by 48 plates of photographs from nature, and 30 figures in the text.

Soldanella alpina: entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.