Spices

This repo contains information I used to build a spice rack.

In order to create the spice labels, I used images from botanical books that are in the public domain. Some of these books were easily found on archive.org, but some were really hard to find. I did my best to use only images that are in the public domain, if you have any concerns about it open an issue or send me an email.

I processed each PDF using Adobe Acrobat's OCR, to make finding the right plant easier.

Sources

Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen (1887-1898)

by Hermann Adolph Köhler

Published in 3 bands

DJVU files found via libgenesis

Medicinal Plants (1880)

by Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen

Published in 2 parts

Biodiversity Heritage Library

medicinalplantsb01bentrich directory listing

medicinalplantsb02bentrich directory listing

A Curious Herbal (1737-1739)

by Elizabeth Blackwell

https://web.archive.org/web/20090103122758/http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/title.asp?relation=QK99A1B5441737V1

MBG Rare Books: List of Taxa for A curious herbal, containing five hundred cuts, of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick : engraved on folio copper plates, after drawings taken from the life / by Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added a short description of ye plants and their common uses in physick.

https://archive.org/download/mobot31753002620836

Botanica Pharmaceutica (1788)

by A. F. Happe

Published in 4 “centurias” (bands)

I haven’t found a scan of Band 4 yet

Images were scraped from a library in Osaka:

Botanica pharmaceutica centur 2

Band 1:

詳細：おおさかeコレクション

Band 2:

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Band 3:

詳細：おおさかeコレクション

Spices, their nature and growth, the vanilla bean, a talk on tea (1915)

by McCormick and company

Spices, their nature and growth, the vanilla bean, a talk on tea : McCormick and company, Baltimore. [from old catalog] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Hand-Artlas s*̈mmtlicher medicinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewächse (1876)

by Dr. Wilibald Artus

Hand-Atlas sämmtlicher medicinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewächse : oder naturgetreue Abbildungen nebst Beschreibungen in botanischer, pharmacognostischer und pharmacologischer Hinsicht ...; Zum Gebrauche für Apotheker, Aerzte und Drogisten / bearb. von Willibald Artus ; Band 1

Hand-Atlas sämmtlicher medicinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewächse : oder naturgetreue Abbildungen nebst Beschreibungen in botanischer, pharmacognostischer und pharmacologischer Hinsicht ...; Zum Gebrauche für Apotheker, Aerzte und Drogisten / bearb. von Willibald Artus ; Band 2

Ausländische Culturpflanzen in bunten Wand-Tafeln (1880-1881)

by Zippel

Ausländische Kulturpflanzen in farbigen Wandtafeln mit erläuterndem Text im anschluss an die "Repräsentanten einheimischer pflanzenfamilien" : Zippel, Hermann : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Botanica in originali pharmaceutica (1733)

by Johann Hieronymus

Harvard Mirador Viewer

Medical botany (1834)

by John Stephenson

Medical botany (1834)

Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1787-now)

by William Curtis & others