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  • ———. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: Traveller and Plant Collector. Woodbridge, Suffolk / Kew [England]: Antique Collectors’ Club / Royal Botanic Gardens, 1999.
  • ———. The European Discovery of the Indian Flora. [Kew, Richmond, Surrey] / Oxford and New York: Royal Botanic Gardens / Oxford University Press, 1992.
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  • Fara, Patricia. Sex, Botany & Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks. Revolutions in Science. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
  • Fisher, Celia. The Golden Age of Flowers: Botanical Illustration in the Age of Discovery, 16001800. London: British Library, 2011.
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  • Fry, Carolyn. The Plant Hunters: The Adventures of the World’s Greatest Botanical Explorers. London: Andre Deutsch, 2009.

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  • Gage, Andrew T., and William T. Stearn. A Bicentenary History of the Linnean Society of London. London: Academic, 1988.
  • Gascoigne, John. Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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  • Hamadeh, Shirine. The City’s Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century. Publications on the Near East. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.
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  • Kaempfer, Engelbert. The History of Japan, Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam, 169092. Translated by F. R. S. J. G. Scheuchzer. Glasgow: J. MacLehose and Sons, 1906.
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  • Lack, H. Walter. Alexander Von Humboldt and the Botanical Exploration of the Americas. Translated by Stephen Telfer. Munich and New York: Prestel, 2009.
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  • Tchikine, Anatole. “Gardens of Mistaken Identity: The Giardino Delle Stalle in Florence and the Giardino dell’Arsenale in Pisa.” Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 33, no. 1 (2013): 39–51.
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  • Watts, Peter, Jo Anne Pomfrett, and David Mabberley. An Exquisite Eye: The Australian Flora & Fauna Drawings, 18011820, of Ferdinand Bauer. Glebe, N.S.W: Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1997.
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