EditorialMountain centaury, Centaurea montana, Swiss centaury, Centaurea rhapontica, cream-coloured centaury, Centaurea ochroleuca, and balsam-scented centaury, Centaurea balsamita. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by ...
EditorialBalm of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis (Balsam of Gilead tree, Amyris gileadensis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialGarden balsam, Impatiens balsamina (Glandular-leaved balsam, Impatiens coccinea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, T. Curtis, London, 1810.
EditorialCopaiba balsam tree, Copaifera officinalis 1, and red mangrove, Rhizophora mangle 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German ...
EditorialMint geranium or balsam herb, Tanacetum balsamita. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnber...
EditorialBalsam of Tolu tree, Myroxylon toluifera balsamum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby...
EditorialHousenka or garden balsam, Impatiens balsamina. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialBalsam of Gilead tree, Commiphora gileadensis. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but...
EditorialThe principal perfumes of the Hebrews: cinnamon Cinnamomum verum, balsam of Gilead Commiphora gileadensis, nard and Indian nard, Nardostachys jatamansi. After a 12th century Persian manuscript. Chromolithograph from Eugene Rimmel's Le Livre des Parfums...
EditorialSEAN CONNERY, LAUREN BACALL, MARTIN BALSAM, JACQUELINE BISSET, MICHAEL YORK, VANESSA REDGRAVE, COLIN BLAKELY, INGRID BERGMAN, JOHN GIELGUD, GEORGE COULOURIS, JEAN-PIERRE CASSEL, ANTHONY PERKINS and SIDNEY LUMET in MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974).