Scarce. Green cloth with gilt-stamped decorations to front board and particulars to spine. Stamped fleur de lis rule to boards. All edges gilt. Contains twenty-eight vivid hand-colored lithographs of British plants, primarily floral in nature, presented alongside dialogues on British botany. Staining to boards; fading to spine; chipping to head and tail of spine (see image). Spine is slightly skewed. No previous owners' names or other inscriptions. 4.3 x 6.6 inches. View More...
12 botanical plates; some colored. Brown cloth boards with gilt particulars. Ornate penciled inscription of previous owner to free fly dated 1872. Gilt edges. Slight foxing throughout. View More...
Signed by the author to Vol. I. Two volume green/ brown cloth set with gilt title to front covers and spines. Top edges gilt. No previous owners' names or other markings. Vol. I pp. 248. Vol. II pp. 276. View More...
Full title of where print originates: "Flora Londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London : with their places of growth, and times of flowering, their several names according to Linnæus and other authors : with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English : to which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural ?conomy and other arts." Slender Spiked Carex. Framed hand colored engraving by Sansom. Mahogany frame with gilt rule. Frame: 17.75 x 25.5 inches; Window: 10.5 x 18 inches. First Edition. View More...
Full title of where print originates: "Flora Londinensis, This is Plate 60 from Volume 4 of this series. Great or Common Carex. Framed hand colored engraving by Sansom. Mahogany frame with gilt rule. Frame: 17.75 x 25.5 inches; Window: 10.5 x 18 inches. First Edition. View More...
Full title of where print originates: "Flora Londinensis," This is Plate 62 from Volume 3 of this series. Smaller Catstail. Framed hand colored engraving by Sansom. Mahogany wooden frame with gilt rule. Frame: 17.75 x 25.5 inches; Window: 10.5 x 18 inches. First Edition. View More...
Original hand colored engraving from "The botanist's repository, for new and rare plants..." Matted in off-white/beige with beveled window and black accent matt. From page proceeding the plate: "White Paeony. Class XIII. Order II. Polyandria Digynia. Many Chives. Two Pointals... References to the plate: 1: The Empalement, Chives, and Pointals. 2: A thread and its tip (magnified). 3: The seed-vessels. 4: A seed... This new species of Paeony is a native of Mongol Tartary, and the parts adjacent; of course is sufficiently hardy to endure our severest winters. It has been described by Gmelin, in h... View More...
Original hand-colored engraving from Andrews' The Botanist's Repository. Includes individual parts of plant. A bright and clean copy. Matted print. Overall: 15 x 17 1/2 inches; Window: 8 x 10 1/2 inches. View More...
Original hand-colored engraving from Andrews' The Botanist's Repository. Includes individual parts of plant. A bright and clean copy. Matted print with window mat. Overall: 15 x 17 1/2 inches; Window: 8 x 10 1/2 inches. View More...
Rebacked in linen over marbled paper boards. Lacking original endpapers and fly. This copy does not contain the plates.1845 stamp to initial three pages, page 9, and the final page. Wear to corners. Notations to title page (see image). Clean interior with no other owner's names or markings. View More...
Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 15 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. Common name of plant added in elegant 19th century script to top of page. No other names or markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 5.8 x 8.5 inches. View More...
Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, from Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 6.13 x 8.5 inches. View More...
Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 149 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 6.13 x 8.5 inches. View More...
Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving from Woodville's Medical Botany. Common name of plant added in elegant 19th century script to top of page. No other names or markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." 6.1 x 8.5 inches. View More...
Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 110 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. Common name of plant added in elegant 19th century script to top of page. No other names or markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 5.83 x 8.5 inches. View More...
Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 141 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 6.25 x 8.5 inches. View More...
Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 140 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 6.25 x 8.5 inches. View More...
Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 145 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 5.9 x 8.5 inches. View More...
Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 112 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 6.25 x 8.5 inches. View More...
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