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]
Akishino, HIH Prince. (et al). Flora Japonica.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG Kew. 2016 pp.252 with col. & b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine softback. Out of print.
Flora Japonica is a beautiful celebration of modern Japanese botanical art, featuring 80 specially commissioned botanical paintings of Japanese wild plants, contributed by 34 of the country's best contemporary artists. Each paintings is accompanied by text about the plant, including its natural history as well as botanical description and details of the specimen origin. Biographies of all 30 artists are included.
£21.00 [ref: 67443]
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]
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]
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]
Armstrong, C. & De Zegher, C. Ocean Flowers. Impressions from Nature.
1st. Ed. Pub. The Drawing Center/Princeton Univ. Press. 2004 pp.288 [17] with col. and b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. Out of print. Exhibition card for this work and a copy of Taxon magazine’s review of the book both loosely inserted.
‘Ocean Flowers’ explores a little-known moment of exhilarating artistic experimentation. The book focuses on natural-history imagery in the mid-nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on botanical drawings, cyanotypes and photograms by the artist Anna Atkins (1799-1871) and her Victorian contemporaries. The book accompanied an exhibition of the same name.
£110.00 [ref: 66317]
Arnold, Marion. (Ed.). South African Botanical Art. Peeling Back the Petals.
1st. Ltd. Ed. Pub. Fernwood Press & Art Link. 2001 pp.216 with colour illus. throughout. Royal 4to. Fine hardback housed in fine cloth slipcase. Half leather over cloth binding with gilt floral motif to front, blind-stamped floral motif to ffep. From the library of Prof. Grenville (Gren) Lucas OBE, much loved botanist and conservationist. A Collector’s Edition of 100 copies, this copy being No. 35, presented to Gren Lucas and signed by the Editor.
A beautifully illustrated dictionary of South African Botanical Artists, with well over 200 entries; the first to be compiled and published.
£300.00 [ref: 66823]