Hunt Institute specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation. To this end, the Institute acquires and maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes of information service. The Institute meets the reference needs of botanists, biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora. Learn more
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Armorial bindings
Finding an armorial binding in the collection and identifying its previous owners is always a thrill. Equally thrilling is finding other provenance markings that show further steps on the book's path to the Library at Hunt Institute. Often these secondary provenance markings are more pertinent to the field of botany in that they are frequently the marks of naturalists or botanists. This sampling of armorial bindings includes those and others of interest while some remain a mystery.
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Balestier album of Malaysian plants
In May 2021 the Art Department received an album of 72 watercolors of Malaysian tropical fruits, flowers and plants of economic importance that were painted (?1837–1851) by unknown artists of Malaysian or Chinese descent.
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Three Swedish Catalogs
Linnaeus described the natural history collections of Count Carl Gustav Tessin, King Adolf Fredrik and Queen Lovisa Ulrika in these books from our Strandell Collection of Linnaeana.
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