📚 Botany

Plants as the base of everything — photosynthesis, classification, and the green machinery that feeds the rest of the living world.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject botany in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Val d'Arno	John Ruskin	1874	57
	Systema naturae	Carl Linnaeus	1748	55
	The complete herbal; to which is now added upwards of one hundredadditional herbs	Nicholas Culpeper	1814	45
	Herball	John Gerard	1597	37
	Class-book of botany	Alphonso Wood	1845	35
	Introductory plant biology	Kingsley R. Stern	1979	30
	Complete Herbalist; Or, People Their Own Physician	O. Phelps Brown	1833	29
	The works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher	Francis Beaumont	1866	27
	The elements of botany for beginners and for schools	Asa Gray	1887	27
	Manual of the botany of the northern United States	Asa Gray	1848	26
	Botany	James D. Mauseth	1991	25
	The art of creation	Edward Carpenter	1904	23
	Flora of Peru	J. Francis Macbride	1936	22
	A history of the vegetable kingdom ; embracing comprehensive descriptions of the plants most interesting from their use to man and the lower animals ..	William Rhind	1840	21
	Advances in botanical research	J. A. Callow	1985	21
	Histoire naturelle des végétaux classés par familles	Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck	1803	18
	Plants and society	Estelle Levetin	1996	18
	Nature stories for young readers	Florence Bass	1892	17
	A modern herbal	M. Grieve	1931	17
	Flowering plants	Robert H. Mohlenbrock	1970	16
	What's Inside?	DK Publishing	1991	16
	Flore de l'Afrique du Nord	René Maire	1952	15
	Botanicum	Katie Scott	2016	14
	A modern herbal	Maud Grieve	1931	12
	A systematic arrangement of British plants	William Withering	1801	10
	The message of the stars	Heindel, Max	1918	9
	The old English herbals	Eleanour Sinclair Rohde	1922	9
	The art of botanical illustration	Wilfrid Blunt	1950	9
	Biology of plants	Peter H. Raven	1970	9
	A Rum affair	Karl Sabbagh	1999	9

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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