Botany from Florilegius

Very good copy of the Botany Acotyledons volume from Cuvier's huge Dictionary of Natural Sciences Complete with all 103 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates of seedless plants such as ferns and mosses (previously referred to as acotyledons) Includes many species of ferns, moss, lichen, mushroom, truffle, seaweed, algae, etc. All the illustrations drawn and directed by Pierre Jean François Turpin, engraved by Louis Massard,… Read more about this item

Very good copy of the Botany Monocots volume from Cuvier's huge Dictionary of Natural Sciences Complete with all 82 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates of monocotyledon plants Includes palm tree, date, banana, tulip, iris, amaryllis, daffodil, agave, fritillary, maize, ginger, strelitzia, vanilla, cypripedium and epidendrium orchids, etc. With the heartbreaking caption to the amaryllis plate: Turpin fils pinxt. Mort le 21 Aout 1821, age… Read more about this item

A very good copy of Volumes I and 2 (of 3) of Hooker's seminal work Complete with 163 fine hand-coloured engraved plates after drawings by William Jackson Hooker, Robert Kaye Greville, Lansdown Guilding, John Lindley, and Archibald Menzies, all engraved by J. Swan. With over 30 orchids, as well as alstroemeria, banksia, trumpet pitcher, shaving brush tree, cactus, lily, canna, spurge, honeysuckle,… Read more about this item

Very good incomplete copy of Volume LII (52) or Twelfth of the New Series of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1825. With 53 (of 81) hand-coloured botanical plates, 8 folding (No. 2531-2608). Missing 28 plates. Copperplate engravings by John Curtis, a few by William Herbert, mostly engraved by Weddell. Includes many exotic flowers and plants such as camellia, Javanese lily, flame lily, Josephine's lily, orchid,… Read more about this item

Very good copy of Volume XLVI (45) or Third of the New Series of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1819. With 49 (of 80) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 2023-2103). Seven folding plates. Missing 31 plates. Copperplate engravings after an unknown artist, a few by John Curtis and Sydenham Edwards, most engraved by Weddell. Includes many exotic flowers and plants such as rose, chrysanthemum, carnation, orchid,… Read more about this item

Good copy of Volume XLV (45) or Third of the New Series of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1818. With 58 (of 81) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1948-2022). Seven folding plates. Missing 23 plates: 1945-1947, 1952-1962, 1968, 1989-1994, 2001. Copperplate engravings after an unknown artist, a few engraved by Weddell. Includes many exotic flowers and plants including endangered Jamaica sago, bitter ginger, Cape aloe, sweet… Read more about this item

Very good incomplete copy of Volume LIII (53) or Eleventh of the New Series of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1826. With 73 (of 81) hand-coloured botanical plates, 12 folding (No. 2607-2688). Missing 8 plates: 2607, 2608, and 2615-2620. Copperplate engravings by John Curtis, a few by William Herbert, Charles Morgan Curtis (John Curtis's brother), R.K.G., E.D., mostly engraved by Weddell. Includes many exotic flowers… Read more about this item

Very good incomplete copy of Volume L (50) or Eighth of the New Series of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1823. With 64 (of 84) hand-coloured botanical plates, six folding (No. 2356-2440). Missing 20 plates: 2364-2369, 2410, 2412-2418, 2427-2432. Copperplate engravings by John Curtis, a few by Sydenham Edwards, mostly engraved by Weddell. Includes many exotic flowers and plants such as the Claramond tulip, iris,… Read more about this item

Very good copy of Volume XLIV (44) or Second of the New Series of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1817. With 71 (of 82) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 1860-1941). Missing 11 plates: 1885, 1885*, 1886, 1901-1906, 1916, 1937. Copperplate engravings after an unknown artist, a few engraved by Weddell. Includes many exotic flowers and plants including the rhododendron, dragon fruit, squirting cucumber, zebra plant, perfumed… Read more about this item

Very good copy of Volume LXXIII (73) of the whole series (Volume 3 of the Third Series) of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1847. Complete with all 70 (13 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 4275-4344). All plates drawn and lithographed by the prolific botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch. Includes many exotic flowers and plants including the giant Victoria water lily, Java rhododendron, peyote cactus, mottlecah… Read more about this item

Very good copy of Volume LXXII (72) of the whole series (Volume 2 of the Third Series) of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1846. Complete with all 72 (11 folding) hand-coloured botanical plates (No. 4203-4274). All plates drawn and lithographed by the prolific botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch. Includes many exotic flowers and plants including 14 orchids such asPaphiopedilum, Cattleya, Acineta, Miltonia, Mormodes, Cycnoches, Catasetum,… Read more about this item

A very good copy of Volume I only (of 3) of Hooker's seminal work in a poor binding Complete with 79 fine hand-coloured engraved plates after drawings by William Jackson Hooker, Robert Kaye Greville, Lansdown Guilding, John Lindley, and Archibald Menzies, all engraved by J. Swan. With 15 orchids, as well as alstroemeria, trumpet pitcher, cactus, lily, canna, spurge, honeysuckle, begonia, osbeckia,… Read more about this item

Lovely copy of Rebecca Hey's charming Victorian book of botanical plates and poetry With all 24 superb botanical illustrations drawn and engraved on steel by William Clark The botanical illustrations finished to a very high standard with deep, rich handcolour Flowers include mostly British plants such almond blossom, rosemary and violet, daisy, primrose, dog rose, lily of the valley, jasmine, myrtle, hawthorn, forget-me-not,… Read more about this item

Very good copy of a classic of English 18th-century pomological literature. With 79 beautiful fruit plates drawn by Batty Langley, and engraved on copper by Thomas Bowles, John van der Gucht, James Smith, John Carwitham, etc. With 79 engraved plates, of which 11 are double (double plates with two Pl. numbers). The fruits include many varieties of apples, pears, plums, figs, cherries… Read more about this item

Very good set of the first seven volumes (of 11 published) with approx. 580 plates. The most important survey of British wild flowers in the Victorian era, far more comprehensive than Jane Loudon's or John Sowerby's. The hand-coloured lithographic plates by Charlotte Gower and Worthington George Smith. Robert Hogg (1818-1897) was a Scottish nurseryman and botanist. He was known as a pomologist who… Read more about this item

A very good run of the first five volumes from the New Series of this very rare botanical. Complete with 240 handcoloured botanical plates by Worthington George Smith (212) and Frederick William Burbidge (28) Flowers include many species of elegant orchids, roses, camellias, dahlias, hyacinths, rhododendrons, pansies, geraniums, and many other popular Victorian garden flowers. Bernard Quaritch in a General Catalogue of… Read more about this item

Lovely copy of a very ornamental Georgian gardening book with plates by William Clark. Complete with 60 finely hand-coloured engravings on steel of popular garden flowers including chrysanthemum, cyclamen, lily, lobelia, delphinium, amaryllis, azalea, wisteria, magnolia, rhododendron, poppy, peony, passionflower, Japanese quince, etc. One double page plate of a huge Chinese Moutan peony. Drawn and engraved on steel from living specimens… Read more about this item

Volume 5 only of this 13-volume set of one of the finest German works on medical botany. Complete with 48 finely hand-coloured copperplate engravings of plants by the famous German botanical artist Friedrich Guimpel. Plants include peony, horseradish, figwort, meadow saffron, broadleaf plantain, annual mercury, sedge, fumitory, fumewort, celandine, buckthorn, vervain, dead-nettle, lichens, and more. Title page, preface, 96 pages of explanatory text,… Read more about this item

Good copy of a herbal, possibly German from the late 16th century Lacks title page, first 24 pages of text, first two pages of Latin index, pages 49-64, 321-328 and 385~391. With over 620 woodblock engravings of medical plants, herbs, fruits and vegetables in contemporary hand-colour. No text, but names of plants in Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian and German at the… Read more about this item

Good copy of Volume 2 (of 2) only of this popular 19th century German herbal The attractive hand-coloured engravings by F. Kirchner. The subjects in this volume are fruits, spices, herbs, hallucinogenics, poisons, cereals, bulbs, ferns, mushrooms, etc. Plant names in German and Latin in the plate. Artus's handbook of general medicinal-pharmaceutical plants was published in two volumes from 1846 to 1885.… Read more about this item