An Oak Spring Herbaria

Part of the Oak Spring Garden Library discursive catalog series, An Oak Spring Herbaria explores materials from the collection relating to herbs and herbals.

For An Oak Spring Herbaria, authors Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and Tony Willis selected sixty-three works from the Library’s extensive collections. The volume is thematically arranged into the following chapters: ‘Late Medieval Herbals’; ‘The Great Age of Renaissance Botany’; ‘Herbals and Plants from Distant Lands’; ‘Herbals by Herbalists, Pharmacists, and Physicians’; ‘Herbals of the Botanical Gardens and Private Gardens of Europe’; ‘Curious and Strange Herbals’; ‘Dried Specimens and Nature Printing’; and ‘American Herbals.’