Welcome to the Cactus and Succulent Digital Library

This project aims at proposing a wide choice of titles (books, catalogs, etc.) devoted to cacti and other succulents. These titles are either in the public domain or the authors gave us the authorization to make them available on this site.

Backeberg: various rare catalogues.
Berger: Die Agaven.
Berger: Kakteen.
Berger: A systematic revision of the genus Cereus Mill..
Britton et Rose: The cactaceae, the original!
Bradley: The history of succulent plants, 1716-1727!
Coulter: A Preliminary Revision of the North American Species of Cactus…
Darwin: The power of movement in plants.
Förster: Handbuch der Cacteenkunde, 1846.
Fric and Kreuzinger: two famous catalogues.
Krainz et al.: Die Kakteen.
Lemaire: Cactearum aliquot…, of 1838
Lemaire: les cactées, dated 1868, in old french.
Lemaire : Iconographie descriptive des cactées, dated 1841-1847.
Marshall and Bock: The cactaceae… continued.
Nel: Lithops. The first book devoted to the “living stones”.
Phytographe: strange although instructive and premonitory.
Pilbeam: Gymnocalycium. A collector's guide, 1995.
Putnam: Gymnocalyciums, 1978.
Rausch: the ”lobivia” of 1975 and 1985.
Redouté : Les Liliacées, 26 plates, 1802…
Redouté & (de) Candolle: Histoire des plantes grasses, 1799…
Ritter/Winter: Catalogues of the '50
Rose: Notes on useful plants of Mexico.
Rowley : Pierre-Joseph Redouté — “Raphael of the succulents”., article from CSJ GB, 1956
Schumann, Gürke, Vaupel: Blühende Kakteen
Sprechman: Lithops, 1970.
Wahl : Lobivia 89.
Watson: the “Old, old Lexicon”.
Werdermann: Blühende Kakteen… continued.

Cactus & Co: Cactus & Co journal. Old issues of this very beautiful italian publication. Anciens numéros de cette très belle publication italienne.
Catalogues: Old french catalogues.
Curtis's Botanical Magazine: Cacti and other succulents. A beautiful series of colour plates.
Edwards's Botanical Register: Cacti and other succulents. Again a beautiful series of colour plates.
Illustration horticole: Begium periodical of the 19^th century.
Informationsbriefe Echinopseen: Old issues of a publication devoted to Trichocereus, Echinopsis, Lobivia, Rebutia, Sulcorebutia, Weingartia…
Jardin fleuriste: Begium periodical of the 19^è siècle.
Succulenta: Old issues of the dutch journal, and various other stuff.

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