Lawrence, G.H.M. (Ed.). 20th Century Botanical Art & Illustration. 1968-1969. Catalogue [of the] 2nd International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Hunt Botanical Library. 1968 pp.267 with b/w. photos. 8vo. Minor bumps for fore-edges of boards which are also gently sunned to spine o/w. a fine hardback.
Contains brief biographies of the featured artists together with examples of their work. Catalogue for 20 October 1968 to 15 April 1969.
£5.00 [ref: 70281]

Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques. Portraits of Plants. Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (1533-1588)
1st. Ed. Pub. Oregon Press. [1984] Unpaginated with 59 paintings of flowers, fruits and butterflies. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Le Moyne accompanied Rene de Laudoniere as artist and cartographer on an 1564 expedition to a French Huguenot settlement in Florida; the botanical illustrations reproduced in this volume are a result of the expedition.
£20.00 [ref: 68572]

Leet, J. Flowering Trees and Shrubs. The Botanical Paintings of Esther Heins.
1st. Ed. Pub. Harry N.Abrams. 1987 pp.148 with 68 full-page col. illus. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
Esther Heins became one of the foremost botanical painters working in America and this book contains 68 exquisite examples of her work.
£15.00 [ref: 66827]

Lewis, J. Walter Hood Fitch. A Celebration.
1st. Ed. Pub. HMSO & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1992 pp.viii, 34, plus 73 full page colour plates. 4to. Fine hardback in thor. vg. dw.
This first book to be written on Walter Hood Fitch, celebrates his remarkable achievements and marks his long association with one of the world’s most famous botanical gardens.
£7.50 [ref: 62776]

Lewis, Jan. Walter Hood Fitch. A Celebration.
1st. Ed. Pub. HMSO & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1992 pp.viii, 34, plus 73 full page colour plates. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw., with gently sunned spine. From the library of Prof. Grenville (Gren) Lucas OBE, much loved botanist and conservationist, and inscribed to him by the author ‘To Gren, with best wishes and thanks! Jan Lewis, 5.2.92’. Furthermore, Gren is thanked for his help in Lewis’ Acknowledgements.
Jan Lewis is a descendant of the Fitch family; John Nugent Fitch, nephew and assistant to Walter, was her great-grandfather. This was the first book to be written on Walter Hood Fitch - it celebrates his remarkable achievements and marks his long association with one of the world’s most famous botanical gardens.
£19.50 [ref: 67901]

Lewis, Jan. Walter Hood Fitch: A Celebration.
Pub. HMSO. 1992. pp.73 with portraits and numerous colour reproductions of Fitch’s paintings. A vg. copy in part faded dustwrapper.
£7.50 [ref: 44962]

Lis, M. & Vingtrinier, B. Flowers in the Louvre.
Pub. Musee du Louvre. 2009 pp.79 with col. illus.throughout. 8vo. Fine hardback.
A critical selection of forty artworks with a botanical theme chosen from the Louvre’s collection.
£7.50 [ref: 66809]

Littger, K.W. & Dressendorfer, W. The Garden at Eichstatt. The Book of Plants by Basilius Besler.
1st. Ed. Pub. Taschen. 2000 pp.463 with 367 full-colour plates, plus colour photos., and illus. Small folio. Four very minor marks to edges of text block, o/w., a fine hardback in fine dw. A stunning work.
Prince Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen (1593/95-1612) founded the garden at Eichstatt and within it grew a remarkable variety of rare plants including tulips, hyacinths and crown imperials. Based on this garden Basilius Besler (1561-1629) published the ‘Hortus Eystettensis’, or ‘the thorough and lively illustration of all its plants, flowers, trees...’. This new edition of that work presents all the plates in colour.
£75.00 [ref: 58126]

Mabberley, D.J. Botanical Revelation. European encounters with Australian plants before Darwin.
1st. Ed. Pub. NewSouth. 2019 pp.xi, 372 with col. & b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. The dustwrapper folds out to reveal, on the reverse, a facsimile map of New South Wales which was released in 1825. Out of print.
A ground-breaking analysis of early European understanding of Australia's flora. Combining science, horticulture, art and economics, this lavishly illustrated book reveals the motives and complex networks that led to the international spread of knowledge and cultivation of hundreds of Australian plants in Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
£70.00 [ref: 68883]

Macmillan, D. Elizabeth Blackadder.
1st. Ed. Pub. Scolar Press. 1999 pp.128 with col. and b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw.
A beautifully illustrated book exploring the development of the artist’s work as a painter and printmaker.
£30.00 [ref: 66816]