Seven textbooks of Pharmaceutical Botany have been published in Istanbul between 1839 and 1960. In 1839, the Section of Pharmacy has been opened in the Imperial School of Medicine of Galata-Seraï. This event reflects the beginning of the academic pharmaceutical education in the Ottoman Empire. In December 1960, we see the foundation of the first faculty of pharmacy in Turkey at Ankara. The School of Pharmacy at Istanbul becomes faculty only one year later, in January 1962. Keywords :