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profusely illustrated flora of France

JAUME SAINT-HILAIRE, J.H. Plantes de la France, décrites et peintes d'après nature.

Paris, chez l'Auteur, 1819-22. 10 volumes. Royal-8vo (257 x 200mm). With 10 lithographed portraits of botanists and 1000 fine stipple engraved plat...

EUR 14,000

it contains descriptions and plates of many of the best garden Rhododendron species which can be grown in this country

HOOKER, J. The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an account, botanical and geographical, of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of Eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a government botanical mission to that country ... Edited by Sir W.J. Hooker.

London, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849 (-1851). 3 parts (bound in one). Folio (495 x 370mm). With ahandcoloured vignette, showing the Himalayan mou...

EUR 18,000

CAMBRIDGE, O.P. The spiders of Dorset, with an appendix containing short descriptions of those British species not yet found in Dorsetshire.

From the "Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club". Edited by J. Buckman. Sherborne, L.H. Ruegg, 1879. 8vo. pp. xlii, ...

EUR 450

BOERHAAVE, H. Index alter Plantarum quae in Horto Academico Lugduno-Batavo aluntur.

Leiden, Jansson Vander Aa, 1727. 2 vols (bound in one). 4to (225 x 175 mm). pp. (xxxviii, without blank *4, as is always the case), 320; (ii), 270,...

EUR 3,500

REICHENBACH, L. Icones Florae Germanicae et Helveticae simul Pedemontanae, ... Volumen XXI.

Lipsiae, F. Hofmeister, 1867. 4to. pp. (4), 108, with 210 engraved plates (numbered 1842-2051). Contemporary half calf, richly gilt ornamented spin...

EUR 500

An interesting work on how to paint and draw flowers

WHITTOCK, N. The art of drawing and colouring from nature Flowers, Fruit, and Shells; to which is added, correct directions for preparing the most brilliant colours for painting on velvet, with the mode of using them; also, the new method of oriental tinting.

London, I.T. Hinton, 1829. 4to (265 x 212mm). pp. (4), 96, with 24 lithographed plates in 2 states,one fineley handcoloured and the other one plain...

EUR 1,400