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  • The interior of a busy pharmacy. Line engraving by C. Le Roy.
  • Crosswort (Galium cruciata (L.) Scop.): flowering plants rooted in joints of stone wall with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • A plant (Brucea species): flowering stem with floral segments. Coloured etching by J.F. Miller, c.1796, after himself.
  • Coffee plant (Coffea arabica): flowering and fruiting stem with floral segments. Coloured engraving with etching by J. Miller, c. 1774, after S. Taylor.
  • Betony (Stachys officinalis): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1903.
  • Adder's tongue (Ophioglossum vulgatum L.): fertile stem with description of the plant and its medicinal uses. Coloured line engraving by J. Basire, the younger, c. 1759, after T. Sheldrake.
  • Two flowering plants: sage (Salvia officinalis) and meadow sage (Salvia pratensis). Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Peruvian rhatany (Krameria triandra): flowering and fruiting plant with roots and fruit segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1843.
  • Fig (Ficus carica L.): leaf and fruit. Coloured aquatint by G. Pera, c.1825, after O. Muzzi.
  • Three flowering plants, including a lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) and an anemone (Anemone species). Nature print by F. Branson, 1854.
  • Dittander (Lepidium latifolium L.): flowering and fruiting stem with root and separate segments of flower and fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • Five Egyptian trees with fruit, including the tamarind, mulberry fig and baobab. Line engraving, c. 1676.
  • English ivy (Hedera helix): stem with flowers, fruit and leaves. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
  • Paperbark tree (Melaleuca ericifolia): flowering shoot with leaf and floral segments. Coloured engraving by J. Sowerby, c. 1805, after himself.
  • Wood sage (Teucrium scorodonia): flowering stems and floral segments. Pen and watercolour drawings.
  • Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate root, fruit and floral segments. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Leadwort or plumbago (Plumbago europaea L.): flowering stem with separate rooting stem and fruit cluster. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • A soldier with wounded head who has inserted medicinal plants in his helmet. Watercolour.
  • The discovery of herbal medicines, their transport by ship from the East Indies and their presentation to the pagan deities. Engraving after Adolf van der Laan, 1741.
  • Fungi: twenty species, including the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), death cap (Amanita phalloides) and Boletus and Agaricus species. Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur.
  • Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Castor oil plant (Ricinus communis): flowering and fruiting stem, leaf and fruit sections. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.
  • A plant (Caladium bicolour (Aiton) Vent.): 3 large stalked leaves and numbered inflorescences - both sheathed and unsheathed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • St. John's wort or klamath weed (Hypericum perforatum L.): flowering stem with separate root, flower and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.
  • Three liliaceous flowering plants, including lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) and whorled Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
  • A coca plantation in Peru in which stands an armed man and his dogs. Lithograph after Lieut. L. Gibbon.
  • Clubmoss (Lycopodium dichotomum): fertile stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Yellow flag (Iris pseudacorus): flowering stem. Watercolour, 1904.
  • Senega root plant (Polygala senega): flowering stem, rootstock and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.
  • Heliotrope (Heliotropium sp.): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.