Adams, B. The Flowering of The Pacific. Being an account of Joesph Banks’ travels in the South Seas and the story of his Florilegium.
1st. Ed. Pub. William Collins. 1986 pp.194 with col. & b/w. illus. 4to. Nr. fine hardback in nr. fine dw with some sunning to spine.
The narrative of ‘The Flowering of the Pacific’ encompasses the entire three-year voyage of HMS Endeavour to her main landfalls at Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, Tierra del Fuego, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia and Java.
£14.00 [ref: 68631]

Aitken, R. Botanical Riches. Stories of botanical exploration.
Pub. Lund Humphries. 2007 pp.xi, 243. Beautifully illustrated in colour throughout. Large 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Out of print.
A super work. Divided into four main sections; ‘Plants of the ancient and classical worlds’ (from the dawn of time to 1450); ‘The great age of maritime exploration’ (from the 1450s to 1750s); ‘Scientific imperialism and exotic botany’ (from the 1750s to the 1900s) and lastly, ‘Living Fossils’ (The 1900s and beyond).
£35.00 [ref: 66828]

Aladren, M.P. de S.P. (Ed.). Pasion por las flores. Passie voor bloemen. Passion for Flowers. Drawings from the Van Berkhey Collection.
1st. Ed. Pub. Accion Cultural Espanola. 2012 pp.103 with col. illus. Text in Spanish, Dutch and English. 4to. From the lib. of the Linnean Society. Fine softback. Exhibition catalogue. Scarce.
Johannes le Francq van Berkhey (1729-1812) was a man of the Enlightenment. His love for the arts, antiquities, literature and the natural sciences was reflected in his being an artist, collector, writer and lector in Natural History.
£25.00 [ref: 67451]

Allan, C. Elizabeth Blackadder Prints.
1st. Ed. Pub. Lund Humphries. 2003 pp.128 with col. and b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A superb collection of the artist’s work showing how her skill as a printmaker developed from 1950s onwards.
£49.50 [ref: 66815]

Anashka, Jane. Seeing the Normally Unseen. Botanical Illustrations.
1st. Ed. Pub. Jane Anaskha. 2017 pp.26 plus 14 colour giclee prints. Large 4to. Hardback. Hand-made book, printed and bound by Jane Anashka. Bound in light umber cloth boards with warm umber spine. Fine condition. Housed in matching clamshell box, also in fine condition. Copy No. 2 from the limited edition, signed by Jane Anashka and dated August 2017.
A wonderful work. Jane and her working partner John (Jay) Cowie ‘look for designs within the translucent skeletal strucure of wild plants’. In doing so, they capture ‘moments of growth and decay - so the art is truly of the plants themselves. In April 2016 ‘House and Garden’ Editor, Clare Foster wrote ‘Jane Anashka and John Cowie make images of flowers like no others. Working mainly with wildflowers, they carefully press the blooms before photographing them, capturing the intricacies after pressing has made them translucent.’.
£250.00 [ref: 69185]

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Anashka, Jane. The Interior World of Flowers. Seeing the Normally Unseen. Botanical Illustrations.
1st. Ed. Pub. Jane Anaskha. 2020 pp.86 plus 42 colour giclee prints. 4to. Hardback. Hand-made book, printed and bound by Jane Anashka. Fine condition. Copy No. 2 from a limited edition of 50 copies, signed by Jane Anashka and dated August 2020. From the library of Prof. Grenville (Gren) Lucas OBE, much loved botanist and conservationist, with dedication from Jane Anashka reading ‘for Gren, With thanks for all your help and encouragement’. Gren wrote the foreward to ‘The Interior World of Flowers’. Housed in blue cardboard outer. Each copy of this book is made to order and are priced at £800.00 new.
A wonderful work. Jane and her working partner John (Jay) Cowie ‘look for designs within the translucent skeletal strucure of wild plants’. In doing so, they capture ‘moments of growth and decay - so the art is truly of the plants themselves. In April 2016 ‘House and Garden’ Editor, Clare Foster wrote ‘Jane Anashka and John Cowie make images of flowers like no others. Working mainly with wildflowers, they carefully press the blooms before photographing them, capturing the intricacies after pressing has made them translucent.’.
£495.00 [ref: 69210]

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Andersen, F. and Nesbitt, P. Flora Danica.
1st. Ed. Pub. Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh and Danish Cultural Institute, Edinburgh. 1990 pp.50 with col. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine softback. Private view invitation card and A4 sheet listing the exhibits, loosely inserted.
The catalogue for an exhibition of Danish porcelain, illustrated through the inspiration of Flora Danica, which took place at Inverleith House during the 1990 Edinburgh Festival.
£25.00 [ref: 66311]

Anderson, A.W. Plants of the Bible.
1st. Ed. Pub. Crosby Lockwood. 1956 pp.72 with 12 col. plates & line drawings. 4to. Nr. fine hardback in good dw.
A beautifully illustrated guide to some of the plants referred to in the Bible.
£8.00 [ref: 70078]

Anfalt, T. & Nilsson, O. Little Book of Flowers. A bouquet from Rudbeck’s botanical project.
1st. Facs. Ed. Pub. Uppsala Univ. Library. 2000 pp.42 with 13 col. illus. 8vo. Fine softback.
The guiding principle for producing this work was to give a good presentation of the Rudbeck family’s great botanical project, ‘The Book of Flowers’ by means of only a few examples. Here thirteen plates are presented in full colour.
£15.00 [ref: 68614]

Arnold, M. (Ed.). South African Botanical Art. Peeling Back the Petals.
1st. Ed. Pub. Fernwood Press & Art Link. 2001 pp.216 with colour illus. throughout. Large 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A beautifully illustrated dictionary of South African Botanical Artists, with well over 200 entries; the first to be compiled and published.
£40.00 [ref: 71441]