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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. The Institute's Associate Members receive a 25% discount on all orders. For more information, please see the Associate page. 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. |
[Hoisting the Book], drawn by George Cruikshank, appears in a slightly different form on the title page of his Vignettes from Mr. Bateman's Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala (London, Cook, 1844) and in Bateman's Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala (London, J. Ridgway & sons, 18371843). HI Library call no. DQ2 B328o; DT100 369 B328o. |
Hunt Institute publication sale
1 December 2008 to 29 May 2009
Just in time for the holidays, the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation is having an inventory reduction sale. From 1 December 2008 to 29 May 2009, all Institute publications and posters will be 50% off the regular price. Now is the perfect time to get any issues of Huntia you may be missing, complete your collection of International catalogues, add a reference work to your library, or find a few gifts for the botanist, historian, artist or garden enthusiast in your life. For a list of available publications and pricing, see below.
Please note that no additional discounts will apply, that some quantities are limited, that this special offer does not apply to our cards and stationery items, and that we will not ship to a third party. Before sending payment, email (huntinst@andrew.cmu.edu) or call (412-268-2434) for availability and shipping quotes. The Institute will be closed 22 December 20082 January 2009 for winter break.
Bulletin, our newsletter Huntia, our scholarly journal Cards, address books, journals and guest books Other Publications CD-ROM Out-of-Print Publications Collection Catalogues Posters Exhibition Catalogues Reference Works
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. Sale Price: $1.00 per issue plus shipping and handling. 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
The Institute's scholarly journal of botanical history, Huntia, publishes articles on all aspects of the history of botany. Sale Prices vary by issue. |
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. |
The Torner Collection of Sessé and Mociño Biological Illustrations 1998. $40.00. Sale Price: $20.00 plus shipping and handling. 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. |
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, AD, Part 3. Portraits of Individuals, EH. Sale Prices vary by part. 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 1. (Abbe Butters), Part 2. (Caballereo Segares Furnrohr), Part 3. (Gadeceau Hyland). Sale Prices vary by part. Detailed register of botanists' manuscripts and papers, arranged alphabetically by surname, with extensive index. |
American Botanical Prints of Two Centuries 2003. $25.00. Sale Price: $12.50 plus shipping and handling. |
Botanical Watercolors from the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland 2004. $13.00. Sale Price: $6.50 plus shipping and handling. 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. |
Catalogues [of the] 2nd-12th International Exhibitions of Botanical Art & Illustration 19682007. Sale 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. |
Enduring Perfection: Paintings by Damodar Lal Gurjar
This illustrated catalogue accompanied an exhibition of paintings depicting flowers, fruits, birds and village scenes by Jaipur, India artist Damodar Lal Gurjar. The catalogue includes artist's descriptions of technique, an essay by Dr. M. K. Sharma Sumahendra, biographical data and a portrait of the artist. |
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. Sale Price: $6.00 plus shipping and handling. 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 (18901951), 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. Sale Price: $9.00 plus shipping and handling. This catalogue accompanies a collaborative exhibition between the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation and the National Agricultural Library (Beltsville, Maryland). |
Natural-History Paintings from Rajasthan 1994. $5.00. Sale Price: $2.50 plus shipping and handling. Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of paintings of flowers, fruit, still lifes, bonsai, animals, birds and figures by six artists from the state of Rajasthan in northwestern India. Biographical data and portraits of the artist are included. |
Portraits of Indian Trees: Arundhati Vartak 1999. $10.00. Sale Price: $5.00 plus shipping and handling. 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. $20.00. Sale Price: $10.00 plus shipping and handling. Catalogue of an exhibition tracing the history of relief, intaglio, planographic, nature-printed and photographic methods of printing botanical illustrations through five centuries. |
Limited-edition suite of 12 frameable reproductions. $300. A limited number of extra prints (#16) 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 |
2000. $55.00. Sale Price: $27.50 plus shipping and handling. 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. $130.00. Sale Price: $65.00 plus shipping and handling. 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. Sale Price: $2.50 plus shipping and handling. 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. |
1999. $40.00. Sale Price: $20.00 plus shipping and handling. 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 17431776. 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. Sale Price: $5.00 plus shipping and handling. 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. $8.00. 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. |
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