Scientific Illustration

Scientific Illustration’s library of Scientific Illustration

How to:

The Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration by Elaine R. S. Hodges

Scientific Illustration: A Guide to Biological, Zoological, and Medical Rendering Techniques, Design, Printing, and Display by Phyllis Wood

Handbook of Biological Illustration by Frances W. Zweifel

Art of Botanical Illustration by Wilfrid Blunt

The Art of Botanical Painting by Margaret Stevens

Botanical Illustration Course with the Eden Project by Meriel Thurstan

How to Draw Plants: The Techniques of Botanical Illustration by Keith West

Drawing and Painting Plants by Christina Brodie

Nature Drawing: A Tool for Learning by Clare Walker Leslie

Watercolour Flower Portraits by Billy Showell

Student’s Guide to Archaeological Illustrating by Brian Dillon

Approaches to Archaeological Illustration: A Handbook Melanie Steiner

Wild Flowers in Watercolour by Judith Milne

History:

A history of comparative anatomy from Aristotle to the eighteenth century by Francis Joseph Cole

Human Anatomy: Depicting the Body from the Renaissance to Today by Benjamin A. Rifkin

The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400-1850 by Therese O’Malley

Voyages of Discovery: A Visual Celebration of Ten of the Greatest Natural History Expeditions by Tony Rice

Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd

The Illustrated Herbal by Wilfrid Blunt

Audubon’s Elephant: The story of John James Audubon’s epic struggle to publish The Birds of America by Duff Hart-Davis

Artists:

Leonhart Fuchs: The New Herbal of 1543 by Klaus Dobat

John Gould Birds of South America: illustrations from the lithographs of John Gould

A Vision of Eden: The Life and Work of Marianne North by Marianne North

Margaret Mee’s Amazon by S.J. Mayo

Margaret Mee In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests by Margaret Mee

Observations of Wildlife by Sir Peter Scott

The Whale Book: Whales and Other Marine Animals as Described by Adriaen Coenen in 1584 by Florike Egmond

The World of Robert Bateman by Ramsay Derry

Sketches for the Flora by W Keble Martin

Anatomical Drawings from the Royal Collection by Kenneth D Keele

Portraits of Plants by Jacques Le Moyne De Morgues

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717): Artist and Naturalist by Kurt Wettengl

Max Brödel: The Man Who Put Art Into Medicine by Ranice W. Crosby, John Cody

Mr. Jackson’s Mushrooms by H.A.C. Jackson, Mimi Cazort

A Victorian Naturalist: Beatrix Potter’s Drawings from the Armitt Collection by Anne Stevenson Hobbs, Eileen Jay, Beatrix Potter

Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse by Ann Thwaite

Other:

The Artist and the Scientists: Bringing Prehistory to Life by Peter Trusler

Sotheby’s, Natural History, Travel, Atlases and Maps London, May 8th, 2002 

The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung für Botanik: Parts 1,2 & 3 by Sotheby & Co.

Botanical Riches: Stories of Botanical Exploration by Richard Aitken

Natural History Drawings by John Bastin and Kwa Chong Guan

Schön und Nützlich. Aus Brandenburgs Kloster, Schloss und Küchengärten

Biological Drawings with Notes, Parts I and II by Maud Jepson

Seashore Life and Pattern by T.A. Stephenson