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London: Benjamin Wilkes, 1747. First edition. Print. The first edition of this work, with hand colored plates drawn by two of the most celebrated botanical artists of the 18th century, Georg Ehret and Jacob van Huysum. The engravings show the complete life cycles and habitats of each species. This plate with apricots and moths. 12 3/8 x 9… Read more about this item

London: Benjamin Wilkes, 1747. First edition. Print. The first edition of this work, with hand colored plates drawn by two of the most celebrated botanical artists of the 18th century, Georg Ehret and Jacob van Huysum. The engravings show the complete life cycles and habitats of each species. This plate with yellow lupines and moths. 12 3/8 x… Read more about this item

London: Benjamin Wilkes, 1747. First edition. Print. The first edition of this work, with hand colored plates drawn by two of the most celebrated botanical artists of the 18th century, Georg Ehret and Jacob van Huysum. The engravings show the complete life cycles and habitats of each species. This plate with apple blossoms and moths. 12 3/8 x… Read more about this item

London: Benjamin Wilkes, 1747. First edition. Print. The first edition of this work, with hand colored plates drawn by two of the most celebrated botanical artists of the 18th century, Georg Ehret and Jacob van Huysum. The engravings show the complete life cycles and habitats of each species. This plate a rose with moths. 12 3/8 x… Read more about this item

London: Benjamin Wilkes, 1747. First edition. Print. The first edition of this work, with hand colored plates drawn by two of the most celebrated botanical artists of the 18th century, Georg Ehret and Jacob van Huysum. The engravings show the complete life cycles and habitats of each species. This plate with full magnolia-like flower and moths. 12… Read more about this item

London: Benjamin Wilkes, 1747. First edition. Print. The first edition of this work, with hand colored plates drawn by two of the most celebrated botanical artists of the 18th century, Georg Ehret and Jacob van Huysum. The engravings show the complete life cycles and habitats of each species. This plate with apple, fruit, flower and moths. 12… Read more about this item

London: Benjamin Wilkes, 1747. First edition. Print. The first edition of this work, with hand colored plates drawn by two of the most celebrated botanical artists of the 18th century, Georg Ehret and Jacob van Huysum. The engravings show the complete life cycles and habitats of each species. This plate with a large pink hollyhock-like blossom and moths. … Read more about this item

London: Benjamin Wilkes, 1747. First edition. Print. The first edition of this work, with hand colored plates drawn by two of the most celebrated botanical artists of the 18th century, Georg Ehret and Jacob van Huysum. The engravings show the complete life cycles and habitats of each species. This plate with a large leaved plant with tiny red flowers,… Read more about this item

Italy: Instituto Geografico Agostini, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. The work reproduces the botanical plates preserved at the Institute and Botanical Garden of the University of Turin. They include the artists Francesco Peyroleri, Antonio and Angela Bottione, Maddalena Lisa Mussino, and drawings of Australian eucalypts and bottle brushes. Sml. folio, 14.5 x 11.25", 328 pp, 282 color… Read more about this item

Koln: Taschen, 2001. First edition thus. Very good condition. Leonhart Fuchs [1501-1566] is considered a founding father of modern botany. As a teacher and scholar, he married his botanical knowledge with medical research in his New Herbal, a catalog of 500 types of plants and their healing properties. 'This edition is based on Fuchs's personal, hand-colored original and… Read more about this item

Koln: Taschen, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. The LARGE FORMAT facsimile of a work originally issued in parts from 1799 to 1807 by Robert John Thornton [1768-1837], an English physician and botanical writer. The plates in the Temple of Flora are remarkable. The images are works of art that used multiple intaglio techniques, the flowers always the center… Read more about this item

Koln: Taschen, 2013. Hardcover. Fine. Facsimile of a work originally issued in parts from 1799 to 1807 by Robert John Thornton [1768-1837], an English physician and botanical writer. The plates in the Temple of Flora are remarkable. The images are works of art that used multiple intaglio techniques, the flowers always the center of attention, but with dreamy… Read more about this item

Munich: Prestel, 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Fine. Merian [1647 - 1717] was a German entomologist and scientific illustrator. 'She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly.' (wikipedia dot com) Her lifelong study of insects and incorporation of the various stages of insect development into her illustrations established that insects had life cycles… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Ellis Rowans' scarcest printed title - this is only the second copy we have had in 47 years of business. Rowan [1848 - 1922] was a well known Australian artist and illustrator of botanicals, birds, butterflies and insects. The 12 full page, full color chromolithograph… Read more about this item

London: printed for T. Osborne, et al., 1757. First printing. Print. Very good condition. A beautiful engraving from the first edition of this important 18th-century gardening book. The book itself was issued in 60 weekly parts between 1756 and 1757, and was available with plates uncolored or colored. Folio, 16 5/8 x 10". Copper engraving with… Read more about this item

St. Louis, Mo.: Sacramento Valley Improvement Co, 1909. Good + overall. Prospectus to advance the cultivation of eucalyptus as a timber crop in the U.S. Dr. Olseen-Seffer is held out as an expert, reproducing two printed letters from him , along with a portrait of a handsome gentleman whose credentials include graduating from Stanford and spending three years… Read more about this item

London: printed for T. Osborne, et al., 1757. First printing. Print. Very good condition. One of the premier engravings from the first edition of this important 18th-century gardening book. The book itself was issued in 60 weekly parts between 1756 and 1757, and was available with plates uncolored or colored. The Van Huysum family had considerable fame as… Read more about this item

Rochester NY, 1850. Ephemera. Very good condition. King of Tompkins County Apple" is an illustration from "The series of Fruits, Flowers and Ornamental Trees." The image is of a bright red and yellow apple with serrated leaves and a broken stem set against a blank background. Dellon Marcus Dewey (1819-1889) was a bookseller and publisher in Rochester, N.Y.… Read more about this item

London: Country life, 1913. Second revised. Hardcover. Otherwise very good condition. This second edition is an expanded version of the classic study of traditional gardens and landscape architecture for English country homes. Gertrude Jekyll [1843 - 1932] was a giant in British garden design who not only created hundreds of gardens through out the world but also… Read more about this item

Columbus: Hann & Adair, 1894. Hardcover. A beautiful copy. The subscription edition of this volume describing all aspects of taxidermy from tools to mounting to care of finished specimens. Royal 8vo, 150pp, 8pp index, 13pp subscribers, 90 b&w plates, marbled endpapers. Brown 3/4 leather and brown cloth, 6 compartments on spine with gilt title and rules.… Read more about this item