Book  (1990)  Page(s) 49.  Includes photo(s).
 
Venus Alba... double, white, fragrant blooms.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 726.  
 
Venus (alba) ? ? ; pure white, flat cup form.

Book  (1858)  Page(s) 130.  
 
Alba .... Venus, pure white, flat cup form.

Book  (1847)  Page(s) 268.  
 
Venus, A. [Alba], is a beautiful rose, of medium size, perfectly cupped, and of very symmetrical shape. It is white, delicately shaded to a pink centre. Its habit is good, and it will compare well with
the best.

Book  (1846)  Page(s) 65-6.  
 
Venus is an interesting white rose, of rather dwarf growth.

Website/Catalog  (1823)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Rosa flore pleno
1008 venus

Book  (1823)  Page(s) 529.  
 
List of some New Roses, raised by Mr. Brown of New Scone.
(Referred to at p.179.)
The finest of the Double Scots Roses (or those from Rosa spinosissima) having been fully described by Joseph Sabine, Esq. Secretary of the Horticultural Society of London, in the Transactions of that Society, vol. iv, it seems unnecessary to particularise them here. Mr. Brown of Perth made trial of the seeds of other kinds of garden roses, about the year 1796, and procured several seedlings of great beauty, particularly the following.
Venus, a small double white, without prickles, perhaps the finest rose yet produced in Britain, raised from seed of the garden White Rose (Rosa alba.).