Publications and Posters

Publishing, both under sole imprint and in cooperation with other organizations, is an integral part of the Institute's program, and a chief means of transmitting the results of its diverse activities.

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The text-only version of our site contains an alphabetical list of the Institute's publications. To order any of the publications or posters described here, please fill out the Order Form.

To assist you in locating items of interest, Institute publications have been grouped in categories. Clicking the Detail button will take you to a page with a description and illustrations.

Bulletin

Bulletin of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

Subscription rates: U.S. $4.00 per volume; outside the U.S. $5.00 plus $6.00 for airmail.

The Institute's newsletter, containing information about Institute projects, publications and acquisitions, and articles by and about Institute staff and their activities. Some back issues are available.

Huntia

Prices vary by issue.

The Institute's scholarly journal of botanical history, Huntia, publishes articles on all aspects of the history of botany.

Cards, address books, journals and guest books

Institute cards, address books, journals and guest books produced by Galison Books are now available for purchase online at Galison.com. Users who wish to support the Institute’s mission and programs should follow the links on the detail page to Galison’s site to insure proper crediting of each purchase. Unfortunately, we will not be able to provide the Associate Member discount on purchases. Associates should continue to make their purchases at the Institute.

CD-ROM

The Torner Collection of Sessé and Mociño Biological Illustrations

1998. $40.00.

The CD-ROM contains 1,989 full-color digital reproductions of watercolor drawings from the 1787-1803 Spanish Royal Expedition to New Spain in the collection of the Hunt Institute, with catalogue and historical introduction.

Collection Catalogues

Catalogue of Portraits of Naturalists, Mostly Botanists, in the Collections of the Hunt Institute, The Linnean Society of London and the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève

1987-. Part 1. Group Portraits, Part 2. Portraits of Individuals, A–D, Part 3. Portraits of Individuals, E–H. Free.

Catalogue of detailed information on persons who are represented in the portrait collections. Includes places and years of birth and death, as well as their professions and/or botanical or biological specialities.

Guide to the Botanical Records and Papers in the Archives of the Hunt Institute

1981-. Part 2. (Caballereo Segares – Furnrohr), Part 3. (Gadeceau – Hyland). Free.

Detailed register of botanists' manuscripts and papers, arranged alphabetically by surname, with extensive index.

Exhibition Catalogues

American Botanical Prints of Two Centuries

2003. $25.00.

This illustrated exhibition catalogue features two centuries of American printed plant images from utilitarian to creative, the earliest from 1806 and the most recent, 2000. American Botanical Prints of Two Centuries has won the 2005 Ewell L. Newman Award. Sponsored by the American Historical Print Collectors Society, the Newman Award honors new titles that enhance understanding and appreciation for prints as part of the history and culture of North America.

Botanical Watercolors from the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland

2004. Free.

This fully illustrated catalogue accompanies a Hunt Institute exhibition of 48 watercolors and drawings from the 17th to 19th centuries on loan from the collection of the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden University branch, Leiden.

Botanicals: Environmental Expressions in Art, the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection

2009. $35.00.

This fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the Hunt Institute exhibition that represents one of the finest private collections of contemporary botanical art in America. These 54 artworks are expressions of the purely aesthetic forms found in nature and a reminder that we are stewards of our natural resources for future generations.

Catalogues [of the] 2nd-12th International Exhibitions of Botanical Art & Illustration

1968–2007. Price varies by catalogue.

Portraits, biographies and bibliographies of contemporary artists from around the world, with illustrations of works by each. Each catalogue includes a cumulative index of the artists represented thus far in the International Exhibition series.

Gifts of Winter

2000. $16.00.

Illustrated catalogue accompanying an exhibition of artworks and books representing the beauty of plant forms in the winter season, with works spanning the 17th to the 20th centuries from the Hunt Institute collection, along with paintings created especially for the exhibition by Richard Carroll, Charles Pitcher and Michael Wheeler. Biographical data on each artist and a sampling of 19th-century poetry related to the season are included.

The Healing Plants of Ida Hrubesky Pemberton

2003. $12.00.

This catalogue, accompanying an exhibition displayed at the Hunt Institute from 25 September 2003 to 29 February 2004, is the first published monograph on the watercolors of Ida Hrubesky Pemberton (1890–1951), who was working in a period when there were few other female American botanical artists.

Inspiration and Translation: Botanical and Horticultural Lithographs of Joseph Prestele and Sons

2005. $18.00.

This catalogue accompanies a collaborative exhibition between the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation and the National Agricultural Library (Beltsville, Maryland).

Portraits of Indian Trees: Arundhati Vartak

1999. $10.00.

Illustrated catalogue of exhibitions of artworks of Indian trees at Hunt Institute and at Chatham College with essay by artist Arundhati Vartak. Biographical data and portrait of the artist are included.

Printmaking in the Service of Botany

1986. Free.

Catalogue of an exhibition tracing the history of relief, intaglio, planographic, nature-printed and photographic methods of printing botanical illustrations through five centuries.

Other Publications

Ex Libris Carnegie Mellon

Limited-edition suite of 12 frameable reproductions. $300. A limited number of extra prints (#1–6) from the Hunt Institute collection are available for sale on an individual basis. Numbers 1, 2, 4 and 5 are $20.00 each plus tax. Numbers 3 and 6 are $30.00 each plus tax.

Out-of-Print Publications

Out-of-Print Publications

Although these titles are no longer in print, we are including bibliographic and descriptive information for those individuals who may be interested in them.

Posters

Reference Works

Botanical Results of the Sessé & Mociño Expedition (1787–1803)
VII. A Guide to Relevant Scientific Names of Plants

2000. $55.00.

This is an annotated list of about 7500 names of plants (mostly Latin binomials) that have been generated during the last 200 years as a result of the activities of an official Spanish expedition (devoted to natural history) that began its work in Mexico in 1787 and closed out its work in the New World in 1803.

BPH-2: Periodicals with Botanical Content

2004. Free.

BPH-2, a second edition of Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum (1968), is an alphabetical title list of periodicals with botanical content.

Categorical Glossary for the Flora of North America Project

2001. $5.00.

This selective glossary attempts to reconcile, integrate, and codify the traditional terminology of plant-taxonomic description, and should be especially useful for computer-based comparative databanking of such information.

Index to Scientific Names of Organisms Cited in the Linnaean Dissertations together with a Synoptic Bibliography of the Dissertations and a Concordance for Selected Editions

1999. $40.00.

In addition to his many accomplishments, the famous Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus served as praeses for numerous students when they defended academic dissertations during the period 1743–1776. The Index to Scientific Names is a reference resource on these dissertations and the scientific names that appear in them. A detailed list of the original dissertations, a concordance to the various editions, and a historical overview and bibliography of the Amoenitates academicae are included.

Plant Taxonomic Database Standards

This series presents standards for formatting botanical data, prepared by the International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases for Plant Sciences (TDWG) to promote wider and more effective collaboration, dissemination and exchange of information among plant taxonomic databases.

No. 2. World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, ed. 2

2001. $10.00.

This standard clarifies how to determine what information is needed in order to specify scientific plant names and how to organize those names for botanical databasing purposes.

No. 3. Plant Names in Botanical Databases

1994. Free.

This standard clarifies how to determine what information is needed in order to specify scientific plant names and how to organize those names for botanical databasing purposes.

Sale Publications

The Institute is offering the following publication(s) for the price of shipping and handling in the U.S. For orders outside the U.S., contact the Institute via email (huntinst@andrew.cmu.edu) for shipping estimates.