Maria Sabina and Her Mazatec Mushroom Velada by Wasson, R. Gordon - 1974

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2003.. Edition of 5. 9.5 x 12 x 1"; 13 leaves. Handcolored silkscreen prints on handmade paper (including pastedowns). Accordion construction. Green silk cloth-covered boards with illustrated handmade paper on front board. In matching green cloth-covered slipcase. Goodale uses the accordion book structure for bringing attention to these seven ferns on Maine's Threatened & Endangered list. She lists the individual species' names under the name of the genus Woodsia. Her vigorous painting strokes and bold design seem to bring the page alive with ferns.

London: John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1679 A very good copy of John Evelyn's (1620-1706) famous work in new quarter leather binding, retaining the original spine with raised bands, and adding new calf endcaps, shoulder strips and marbled boards. With title page in red and black inks covering all 4 sections of the work. Sylva is the 3rd edition revised by Evelyn and with a new dedication to the King. It is the first edition to contain the poem 'The Garden' written by Abraham Cowley. With 2 page dedication to the King, 16 pp note to the Reader, 4 pp poems, 2pp 'Advertisement' - containing definitions, 'The Garden' with dedication 7pp and Table of Chapters - the index for the whole 4 books. Pagination is continuous for Sylva, Terra and Pomona. Sylva is pp 1-281 and contains 4 engravings, one full page, and 8 pp of tables. Terra has a separate title page - and is listed as the 2nd edition - improved, 1678. It is dedicated to Viscount Brouncker and text runs to… Read More

Freeport, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2017.. Edition of 6 + 2 AP. 10 x 26" closed, extends to 10 x 39 x 39". Silkscreen prints and dry point prints. Text letterpress printed at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills. Interlocking binding in hinged cover. Bound in green book cloth with paper title label. Signed by the poet and the artists. Numbered. A collaboration between Rebecca Goodale and Stephen Burt with an original poem by Cathleen Miller. The prints show the growth habit of the common comfrey plant. The book is read standing and open.  Rebecca Goodale: "In 2016 Stephen Burt and Rebecca Goodale decided to create an artist's book together using serigraphy and intaglio for the pages. The imagery was inspired by the common comfrey plant and a poem by Cathleen Miller. They worked collaboratively cutting stencils, and engraving the plates - passing them back and forth until together they decided the screens and plates were ready to print. The prints were made in Rebecca's… Read More

Very good complete copy of Stephenson and Churchill's medical botany.With 187 fine hand-coloured botanical illustrations drawn and engraved by William Clark (Vol. I), others drawn by G. Reid and Charles Morgan Curtis and engraved by [Edward Smith] Weddell and W.M. Maddocks.Includes the endangered plant roughbark lignum-vitae, Guaiacum officinale, Pl. 90.John Stephenson (1790-1864) was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He also wrote Medical Zoology and Mineralogy (1838). James Morss Churchill (1796-1863) was a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and Fellow of the Medico-Botanical Society of London. He also wrote the first article on acupuncture in the UK in 1821.New edition (after the first in four volumes in 1831) edited by Gilbert T. Burnett, Professor of Botany at King's College, London. William Clark (fl. 1820-1840) was botanical artist and engraver to the Horticultural Society of London, providing illustrations for the Pomological Magazine and the… Read More

A delightful Victorian botanical book by an aristocratic amateur artist living in IndiaTinted title page, 12 chromolithographic plates: preface printed in gold with botanical border, and 11 fine botanical plates each with text leaf printed in gold. Very fine botanical plates including group of flowers from Bombay, wild flowers from Mahableshwar, tulip tree, tuberose, Asian bleeding heart, jungle geranium, Bengal rose, crepe myrtle, tamarind, passionflower, lotus and the extinct Magnolia pterocarpa.Emily Eden (1797-1869) was an English aristocrat, writer, novelist and traveler who accompanied her brother George, Lord Auckland, to India from 1836 to 1842 when he was Governor-General. While Emily was sketching flowers, George launched the Afghan Campaign in 1839, "one of the worst disasters in British military history." Emily published books of travel writings Up the Country, 1866 and Letters from India, 1872, novels The Semi-Detached House 1859, and the Semi-Attached Couple 1860.She also privately… Read More

Nuremberg:: Trew, Christoph Jakob and Wirsing, A.L.,, 1750-86.. first. Fine with original hand-coloring. A Fine original hand-colored copperplate engraving. Folio (12.5/8 x 19.25 inches, 32.05 x 48.89 cm). Presented matted in an Ivory rag mat with gilt line decoration. Sized to 18.5 x 24.5 inches, 46.99 x 62.23 cm). One of the rarest, and most elusive, of all botanical works. As stated in Gordon Dunthorne's Flower and Fruit Prints of the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries, London. 1938: Hortus Nitidissimis is one of the finest records of the cultivated flowers of the period, containing full-sized coloured of the figures. This is the showiest of the Florilegia; garden and florist's flowers painted for their beauty opposed to their scientific appeal. Many of the botanicals were rendered and appropriately credited to Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-70). Ehret's contribution to the art of botanical illustration is so instrumental, that in his well-referenced and essential tome… Read More

Nuremberg:: Trew, Christoph Jakob and Wirsing, A.L.,, 1750-86.. first. Fine with original hand-coloring. A Fine original hand-colored copperplate engraving. Folio (12.5/8 x 19.25 inches, 32.05 x 48.89 cm). Presented matted in an Ivory rag mat with gilt line decoration. Sized to 18.5 x 24.5 inches, 46.99 x 62.23 cm). One of the rarest, and most elusive, of all botanical works. As stated in Gordon Dunthorne's Flower and Fruit Prints of the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries, London. 1938: Hortus Nitidissimis is one of the finest records of the cultivated flowers of the period, containing full-sized coloured of the figures. This is the showiest of the Florilegia; garden and florist's flowers painted for their beauty opposed to their scientific appeal. Many of the botanicals were rendered and appropriately credited to Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-70). Ehret's contribution to the art of botanical illustration is so instrumental, that in his well-referenced and essential tome… Read More

Nuremberg:: Trew, Christoph Jakob and Wirsing, A.L.,, 1750-86.. first. Fine with original hand-coloring. A Fine original hand-colored copperplate engraving. Folio (12.5/8 x 19.25 inches, 32.05 x 48.89 cm). Presented matted in an Ivory rag mat with gilt line decoration. Sized to 18.5 x 24.5 inches, 46.99 x 62.23 cm). One of the rarest, and most elusive, of all botanical works. As stated in Gordon Dunthorne's Flower and Fruit Prints of the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries, London. 1938: Hortus Nitidissimis is one of the finest records of the cultivated flowers of the period, containing full-sized coloured of the figures. This is the showiest of the Florilegia; garden and florist's flowers painted for their beauty opposed to their scientific appeal. Many of the botanicals were rendered and appropriately credited to Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-70). Ehret's contribution to the art of botanical illustration is so instrumental, that in his well-referenced and essential tome… Read More

Paris: Charles Amat, [c1912]., 1912. vo. pp. x, [1 leaf], 235, [1]. 1 plate of portraits of members of the Rose Section of the French National Society of Horticulture, with tissue guard printed with the names of the members, 9 other black & white plates, 2 plates in sepia, & 16 beautiful chromolithographs of different varieties of roses J.L.Goffart after drawings by P.Seguin-Bertault & others, all with tissue guards. numerous text illus. (some full-page incl. 2 plans, & 1 double-page plan). A very nice uncut copy in original colour illus. wrs. (light soiling & foxing to wrs., spine faded, some light offsetting from some plates, a few tissue guards torn). First Edition. Werger & Burton 1123.. F.

London : Simpkin & Marshall, 1825 Volumes I - VII of the 1st edition of Maund's Botanic Garden ranging in date from 1825 to 1836 (Vol VII is undated) with 167 of 168 fine hand coloured plates. It was originally issued in parts and these volumes are in what looks like an original publisher's cloth binding which is worn and disintegrating with some poor stitching, so this set has been priced to take account of rebinding costs. The book is in a square octavo format and text pages are printed on one side only. The contents are clean and bright with beautiful colouring on the plates (faults are listed in the detailed description below). There is some offsetting where particularly strong colour has been applied and shows through to the back of the plates. All have a decorative title page and an additional title page. Vol IV has a third title page part way through the book. All are unpaginated. Vol I has a dedication 'to the lovers of Botany', preface and index - the 9th plate has some… Read More