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monumental flora of Hungary
WALDSTEIN, F. DE PAULA ADAM GRAF VON & P. KITAIBEL.
Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae.
Vienna, Matthias Andreas Schmidt, (1799-) 1802-1812. 3 volumes. Folio (488 x 345mm). pp. (4), xxxii, 1-104; (2), xxxii, 105-221, (1); (2), 223-310...
EUR 68,000
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
The collection contains 13 drawings of Australian plants
WEISS, A.G.
A collection of ca 1700 original pen and wash drawings of plants from the botanical garden at Lemberg, [ca 1862-1872].
The drawings are on laid paper 215 x 140mm, and preserved in 9 blue folding boxes.
EUR 39,000
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
A fine example of the enlightened encyclopaedic science of the period, with an emphasis on education
WILHELM, G.T.
Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Pflanzenreichs.
Augsburg, in der Martin Engelbrechtschen Kunsthandlung, 1810-1821. 10 volumes. 8vo (167 x 105mm). With 10 engraved titles and 608 fine handcoloured...
EUR 4,000
The beautiful engraved and handcoloured plates are after drawings by Friederich Guimpel, a famous botanical artist
WILLDENOW, C.L. & HAYNE, F.G.
Abbildung der deutschen Holzarten für Forstmänner und Liebhaber der Botanik.
Berlin, in der Schüppelschen Buchhandlung, 1815-1820. 2 volumes. 4to (242 x 202mm). pp. (4), 302, with 216 fine handcoloured engraved plates. Cont...
EUR 8,000
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
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
great classic on the botany of the West Indies and Central America
ZORN, J.
Dreyhundert auserlesene Amerikanische Gewächse nach Linneischer Ordnung.
Nürnberg, auf Kosten der Raspischen Buchhandlung, 1786-1789. 6 parts bound in 3 volumes. 8vo (200 x125mm). pp. 72, with 300 beautifully handcolour...
EUR 5,500