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]
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]
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]
Bleichmar, Daniela. Visible Empire. Botanical Expeditions & Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment.
1st. Ed. Pub. Chicago Univ. Press. 2012 pp.xii, 286 with col. and b/w. illus. Small 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Out of print.
Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. European and American naturalists and artists collaborated to manufacture a staggering total of more than 13,000 botanical illustrations. The author uses these images to trace two related histories: the little-known history of scientific expeditions in the Hispanic Enlightenment and the history of visual evidence in both science and administration in the early modern Spanish empire.
£120.00 [ref: 66792]
Blunt, W. & W.T. Stearn. The Art of Botanical Illustration.
Rep. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club. 1995 pp.368 with 125 coloured plates and many text figs. A thoroughly vg. copy in similar dustwrapper. Out-of-print.
£50.00 [ref: 43666]
Blunt, W. and Stearn, W.T. The Art of Botanical Illustration.
New Ed. Pub. Antique Collectors’ Club. 1994 pp.368 with 125 coloured plates and many text figs. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Out-of-print.
Originally published in 1950 as apart of the New Naturalist Serie, this much enhanced edition is a must for all those interested in botanical illustration and the history of the techniques involved. Highly recommended.
£40.00 [ref: 64258]
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Bott, G. Die Stillebenmaler Soreau, Binoit, Codino und Marrell. in Hanau und Frankfurt 1600-1650.
1st. Ed. Pub. CoCon-Verlag. 2001 pp.256 with col. and b/w. illus throughout. 4to. Fine hardback. Loosely inserted A4 sheet with English translation of titles and chapter headings.
A history of still-life painting and the artists of lower Main in the 17th century.
£150.00 [ref: 66285]
Brenninkmeyer-De Rooij, B. et al. Bouquets from the Golden Age. The Mauritshuis in Bloom.
2nd. Ed. Pub. Waanders. 1992 pp.112 with col. and b/w. illus. 4to. Fine softback. Dual text in English and Dutch.
A book to accompany the exhibition ‘Bouquets from the Golden Age’ which traces the developments in flower painting from the beginning of the 17th century into the 18th century.
£7.00 [ref: 66339]