The botany of empire in the long eighteenth century
Subtitle: highlights from the Dumbarton Oaks Rare Book Collection
By: bibliographic notes by Sarah Burke Cahalan, Jasmine Casart, and Deirdre Moore ; photographs of the collection materials by Megan Cook
Contributors: Dumbarton Oaks; Symposium on The botany of empire in the long eighteenth century (2013 : Dumbarton Oaks)
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Trustees for Harvard University
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Plants and history; Scientific expeditions; History; Botany; Bio-bibliography; Botanical specimens; Collection and preservation; Plant introduction; Plant collectors; Plant collecting; Botanical illustration; Economic Botany; Catalogs; Dumbarton Oaks
Notes: Cover title.

"Dumbarton Oaks October 2013."

"This booklet was produced as inspration for the symposium 'The botany of empire in the long eighteenth century' held at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection [Washington, D.C.], October 3-5, 2013"--Page 3.

"The symposium is timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Rare Book Room at Dumbarton Oaks"--Dumbarton Oaks Research Libray and Collection website.

All images reproduced are from volumes held in the Dumbarton Oaks Rare Book Collection.

"With thanks to Yota Batsaki, Anatole Tchikine, Katy Van Arsdale, Sarah Mackowski, Sandra Parker-Provenzano, Linda Lott, Bridget Gazzo, Deborah Brown, Sheila Klos, Francisco Lopez, Kathleen Sparkes, Lain Wilson, Sara Taylor, and Sarah Bogart"--Page 3.