Your shopping cart
This page displays the books in your shopping cart.
When you have finished shopping, click on the Proceed to checkout > button at the bottom of this page.
the rare first 8vo-edition of the most famous book on roses
REDOUTE, P.J. & THORRY, C.A.
Les Roses peintes par P.J. Redouté ... décrites par C.A. Thorry.
Paris, C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1824. 2 volumes. Royal-8vo (235 x 155mm). With 160 colour-printed engraved plates, partly finished by hand. Contemporary ...
EUR 15,000
The only other copy known is in the British Museum
NOVÆ FLORUM ICONES
Hujus generis atrium cultoribus perutiles, maximâ curâ deliniatæ, et tabulis æneis incisæ. Ex Officina Nicol: Visscher.
A series of 16 copper engravings, numbered lower right, 257 x 175 mm, within the borders c. 229 x 146 mm.
EUR 7,500
G.B. Sowerby (2nd) was the most gifted draughtsman of shells of the Sowerby family
SOWERBY, G.B.
The Conchological Illustrations [or coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured shells].
London, Sowerby, 1832-1841. 8vo (212 x 135mm). With 200 beautifully hand-coloured engraved plates and descriptive text. Contemporary red half moroc...
EUR 5,000
Reeve's first major book, foreshadowing his great 'Conchologia Iconica'
REEVE, L.
Conchologia Systematica, or complete system of conchology: in which the Lepades and Conchiferous Mollusca are described and classified according to their natural organizationand habits.
London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longman, 1841-1842. 2 volumes. 4to (275 x 210mm). pp. vi, 195; pp. (2), 337. With 1 folded table and 301 handcolour...
EUR 12,000
(REDOUTÉ, P.J.).
A large and very attractive early 19th century non signed watercolour of a Papaver somniferum,
or Opium poppy in the style of Pierre Joseph Redouté.
EUR 1,500
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 fine plates show marine animals of the Adriatic sea such as shells and crustacean
PLANCUS, J.
De Conchis minus notis liber cui accessit specimen aestus reciproci maris superi ad littus portumque Arimini.
Venetiis, Typis Joannis Baptistae Pasquali, 1739. 4to (260 x 190mm). pp. 88, with woodcut title vignette and 5 engraved folded plates (Together wit...
EUR 3,900
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 most beautifully coloured issue of one of the most attractive huntingbooks ever published
STRADANUS, J. (JAN VAN DER STRAAT).
Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnae Bestiarorum: & mutae Bestiarum, depictae a Ioanne Stradano: Editae per Nicolaum Visscher cum previlegio ordinum Hollandiae et West-Frisiae. Iachten van Wilde Beesten, Vogelen en Visschen, Midtsgaders Stryden van Menschen tegens Beesten, en Beesten tegens malkander.
(Londen c. 1817). Oblong 4to (255 x 360mm). With fine hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 102 beautifully hand-coloured engraved plates. (Toget...
EUR 16,000
Species illustrated and described include three from the Cape, two from Mauritius, and several from Jamaica
SMITH, J.E.
Icones Pictae Plantarum Rariorum, descriptionibus et observationibus illustratae ... Coloured Figures of Rare Plants, illustrated with Descriptions and Observations.
London 1790-(1793). 3 parts. Folio. With 18 handcoloured engraved plates by James Sowerby. Contemporary half calf, a little rubbed and some repairs.
EUR 3,000
This is a very fine series of floral engravings in the style of Spaendonck, Redouté, Bessa, etc
PREVOST, B.L.
Principes et leçons de fleurs.
Paris, Demarteau l'ainé (after 1850). Small-folio (330 x 245mm). With 16 etchings printed in bistre, by Giles Demarteau after crayon drawings by P...
EUR 2,000
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
MUNTING, A.
Waare oeffening der Planten waar in De rechte Aart, Natuire, en verborgene eigenschappen der Boomen, Heesteren, Kruiden, ende Bloemen, Door een veeljaarige onderzoekinge, zelfs gevonden; Als meede op wat maniere zy, in onze Neder- en Hoog-duitsche Landen, gezaait, geplant, bewaart, ende, door het geheele Jaar, geregeert moeten zijn, kenbaar gemaakt worden.
Amsterdam, Jan Rieuwertsz., 1682. 4to. pp. (40), 656, (20), with engraved frontispiece and 40 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum.
EUR 1,800