After graduating from university in St. Louis, my first full time employment was as a book binder / book restorer at the Missouri Botanical Rare Book Library (this was many years ago.) I was fascinated by the marvelous illustrations in these books I worked on there. Now I discover that someone has scanned the contents of many of these beautiful tomes and posted them on line. Here is the link for anyone who might be interested.
Missouri Botanical Garden Rare Book Library
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