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SUTER, J.R.
Flora Helvetica exhibens plantas Helvetiae Phanerogamas/ Helvetiens Flora enthaltend die phanerogamischen Gewächse Helvetiens.
Vermehrt herausgegeben von J. Hegetschweiler. Zürich, Orell, Füssli & Co., 1822. 2 volumes. Small-8vo. pp. cxxii, 408; (4), 504. Contemporary sti...
EUR 500
He published a number of beautifully illustrated works on British garden plants
SWEET, R.
Cistineae. The Natural order of Cistus, or Rock-Rose; illustrated by coloured figures & descriptions of all the distinct species, and the most prominent varieties, that couldbe at present procured in the Gardens of Great Britain; ...
London, James Ridgway, 1825-1830. Royal-8vo (250 x 160mm). pp. xx, (4), with 112 fine handcoloured engraved plates and descriptive text. Contempora...
EUR 3,200
THUNBERG, C.P.
Icones Plantarum Japonicarum, quas in insulis Japonicis annis 1775 et 1776 collegit et descripsit...
Uppsala, J.F. Erdman, 1794-1805. Folio (430 x 275mm). Only 10 of 50 engraved plates, loose.
EUR 1,800
TORRE, G.
Dryadum, Amadryadum, Cloridisque triumphus, ubi Plantaru Universa natura spectatur...
Padova, P.M. Frambotti, 1685. Folio (328 x 220mm). pp. (28), 709, (90), with one beautiful engravedemblematic title and an engraved portait of dall...
EUR 1,800
il y a en très peu d'exemplaires avec les planches en couleur
TOURNEFORT, J.P.
Institutiones Rei Herbariae. Editio Tertia, Appendicibus aucta ab Antonio de Jussieu.
Parisiis, e typographia Regia, 1719. 3 volumes. 4to (240 x 180mm). pp. (6), xxxii, 695, (1), (6), 58 with 2 (1 handcoloured) engraved frontispieces...
EUR 2,200
complete set of the most important and beautiful British pomological journal
TRANSACTIONS OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.
First series, volumes 1-7 (all published). London, W. Bulmer/ W. Nicol, 1812-1830. [and] Second series, volumes 1-3 (all published).
London, W. Nicol, 1835-1848. 10 volumes. 4to (282 x 220mm). With 7 engraved titles and 176 engravedplates of which 93 (some double-page) superbly h...
EUR 13,000
The beautifully engraved plates show among others numerous exotic and bulbous plants
TRATTINNICK, L.
Auswahl vorzüglich schöner, seltener, berühmter, und sonst sehr merkwürdiger Gartenpflanzen, in getreuen Abbildungen...
Wien, auf Kosten des Herausgebers, 1821. 4to (238 x 190mm). 2 volumes. pp.xxiv, 148; vi, 97, with 2engraved portrait frontispieces, one of J. Banks...
EUR 2,000
TRATTINNICK, L.
Botanisches Album, oder Sammlung ausgewählter, naturgetreuer Abbildungen, der merkwürdigsten Pflanzen, Blumen, Früchte, Sträucher u.s.w. nebst deren Benennung. Zusammengetragen aus Leop. Trattinnick's sämmtlichen botanischen Werken.
Wien, R. Sammer, (1850 or 1851). 4to. With 150 engraved plates of which 148 fineley handcoloured. Contemporary half cloth (repair to hinges).
EUR 2,200
The fine engravings are by the author and show recently introduced plants
TRIONFETTI, G.B.
Observationes de Ortu, ac vegetatione Plantarum cum Novarum Stirpium historia iconibus illustrata...
Romae, Typis Dominici Antonii Herculis, 1685. 4to (245 x 175mm). pp. (6), 106, with 17 fine engraved plates. Recent red calf, spine in 6 compartmen...
EUR 2,800
Valentini's 'Museum of museums', is a comprehensive survey of European Wunder-Kunst- & Schatzkammern
VALENTINI, M.B.
Historia simplicium reformata, Musei Museorum titulo antehâc in Vernaculâ edita... Accedit India Literata.
Francofurti ad Moenum, Officina Zunneriana, 1716. Folio (350 x 215mm). 2 parts bound in one. pp. (26), 664, (16), engraved title-vignette and 30 (s...
EUR 4,500
The publishing history of the present work is probably the most bizarre one in the history of botany
VELLOZO, J. M. da CONCEIÇAO.
Florae Fluminensis Icones.
Parisis, ex off. Lithogr. Senefelder, curante F.J. Knecht, 1827. 10 of 11 volumes (lacking volume 3). Large-folio (520 x 345mm). With 1472 (of 1640...
EUR 20,000
Madame Henriette Vincent (1786-1830) pupil of Van Spaendonck and Redouté
VINCENT, H.A.
Collection de 24 Bouquets de Fleurs. Dessinés et gravés d'après nature...
Paris, chez l'éditeur, 1835. 4to (280 x 210mm). With a fine pictorial title and 24 plates, all stipple engravings, printed in colour with extensiv...
EUR 8,000
VITMAN, F.
Svmma Plantarvm qvae hactenvs innotvervnt methodo Linnaeana per genera et species digesta illvstrata descripta.
Mediolani, typis Imper. Monast. Ambrosii Majoris, 1789-1792. 6 volumes. 8vo (202 x 120mm). pp. vi, 497; 459; 557; 487; 458; 397, xliii. Contemporar...
EUR 1,500
VOLCKAMER, J.G.
Flora Noribergensis sive Catalogus Plantarum in Agro Noribergensi tam sponte nascentium, quam exoticarum ... Noribergae, apud Petr.
Conr. Monath, 1718. 4to. pp. (20), 407, (3), with 25 engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards.
EUR 1,500
very rare thesis of this famous Dutch scientist
VRIES, H. DE.
De invloed der temperatuur op de levensverschijnselen der planten. Academisch proefschrift, ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor in de wis- en natuurkunde, aan de hoogeschool te Leiden op gezag van den rector magnificus Mr. J.E. Goudsmit...
's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1870. 8vo (222 x 145mm). pp. (8), 112, vi. Contemporary red cloth,spine with gilt lines, richly gilt decorated sid...
EUR 1,500
an important record of orchid varieties discovered and described in the 19th century
WARNER, R. & WILLIAMS, B.S.
The Orchid Album, comprising coloured figures and descriptions of New, Rare and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants.
London 1882-1897. 11 volumes. Large-4to (303 x 240mm). With 528 coloured plates. Publisher's pictorial gilt cloth, gilt edges (bindings worn).
EUR 14,000
the first botanical book to utilise colour-printed mezzotint successfully
WEINMANN, J.W.
Phytanthoza Iconographia, sive conspectus aliquot millium, tam indigenarum quam exoticarum, ex quatuor mundi partibus... plantarum, arborum, fruticum, florum, fructuum, fungorum, &c. [German title:] Phythanthoza Iconographia, oder eigentliche Vorstellung etlicher Tausend so wohl einheimisch-als ausländischer aus allen vier Welt-Theilen, in Verlauf vieler Jahr mit unermüdetem Fleisz... Pflanzen, Baüme, Stauden, Kraüter, Blumen, Früchte und Schwämme...
Regensburg, H. Lentzen [vol 4: H.G. Neubauer], 1737-45. 4 volumes and 1 index volume. Folio (382 x 250mm). With four engraved titles in red and bla...
EUR 120,000
one of the rarest works on South African botany
WENDLAND, J.C.
Ericarum Icones et Descriptiones/ Abbildung und Beschreibung der Heiden.
Hannover, the author & Hahn, 1798-1823. 27 parts in 25. 4to (310 x 250mm). With 159 (of 162) beautifully handcoloured engraved plates. Contemporary...
EUR 12,000
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
WOLFFEN, C.
Entdeckung der wahren Ursache von der wunderbahren Vermehrung des Getreides, dadurch zugleich der Wachsthum der Bäume und Pflanzen überhaupt erläutert wird, als die erste Probe der Untersuchungen von dem Wachsthume der Pflanzen herausgegeben.
Halle, in der Rengerischen Buchhandlung, 1725. 4to. (208 x 165mm). pp. (10), 140, with an engraved frontispiece (together with:) WOLFFEN, C. Erläu...
EUR 750
only 100 copies were printed
WOOLWARD, F.H.
The genus Masdevallia.
Issued by the Marquess of Lothian, K.T., chiefly from plants in his collection of orchids at Newbattle Abbey. With additional notes by F.C. Lehmann...
EUR 11,000
only 100 copies were printed
WOOLWARD, F.H.
The genus Masdevallia.
Issued by the Marquess of Lothian, K.T., chiefly from plants in his collection of orchids at Newbattle Abbey. With additional notes by F.C. Lehmann...
EUR 11,000
The first Latin and best edition
ZANONI, G.
Rariorum Stirpium Historia ex parte olim edita. Nunc centum plus tabulis, ex commentariis auctoris ab ejusdem nepotibus ampliata opus universum digessit, latine reddidit, supplevitque Cajetanus Montius.
Bononiae, Ex Typographia Lealii a Vulpe, 1742. Folio (390 x 260mm). pp. (40), 247, with an engravedallegorical frontispiece and engraved portrait o...
EUR 3,900